Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

The General Public

• 1994 – Introduction of the WWW

• 380M+ users (+ 170,000 every day)

• Mobile communications (1B + users)

• Online services

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Virtual Worlds

• William Crowther’s

Colossal Cave

• Internet’s

Geographic Nature

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Activities in Virtual Worlds

• Gaming

• Addicted to Diablo

• Chat rooms

• Stalking / Cyber-Stalking

• Children and the WWW

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Prevention

• Regulation– Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)

– Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Prevention - continued

• email & remail– Yahoo, Hotmail, Msn, google, others– Character entities

• rwkerbs@csupomona.edu

• rwkerbs@csupomona.edu

– Web forms

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Prevention - continued

• Online profiles

• Usenet (newsgroups)

• Web Browsing– anonymously

Robert Kerbs - California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA

Conclusion