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Human resources required in society of knowledge and information are those who not only learn about knowledge and information but also apply those acquired sources to creatively trouble-shoot issues through independent or cooperative relationship. This study is to clarify that there is a positive effect from use of on-line game by youth as youth may have an opportunity to learn the competence required by present and future society of knowledge and information. Moreover, this study is to propose that positive competence may be acquired through on-line game and that the systematic device is required to show the classification of competence from game under characteristics of users. For upright settlement of gaming culture, game companies and the government are required to cooperate actively. Therefore, it is expected that the data from this study will be used as basis of studies of development of youth on-line game competence Quotient to grant upright gaming culture and youth on-line game competence Quotient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

隨著使用網際網路的人口大量增加，以及寬頻上網的普及，網路使用者的活動內容也日趨多樣化，其中線上遊戲已是網路使用者重要的活動之一。而線上遊戲的盛行，也確實帶來了相關的法律紛爭，在虛擬世界衍生的法律問題，現實世界中的法規範應該如何調整適用，實在是一大問題。立法院在2003 年6 月3 日完成了刑法「妨害電腦使用罪」章之立法程序，該法亦經總統於同年6 月25 日公布施行。然而，法律之制定與實際之運作，必然存在一定落差，為了檢視立法目的是否達成，除了以法律邏輯之推演或法律文義之解釋為依據，亦可以「法律之經濟分析」（economic analysis of law），作為解釋法律之取向或檢視法律施行之實際狀況，裨能落實立法目的。此外，從網路不法行為之特殊性著眼，也應考量如何適用民事侵權行為法則，用以降低網路侵權行為之發生，如此才能達到最有效率之管制效果。本文將從法律經濟分析之觀點，探討如何有效管制因為線上遊戲所衍生之不法行為，而執法機關應如何解釋法律，才能提高「犯罪成本」（犯罪者因為犯罪必須耗費的時間、金錢），而以較低的「社會成本」（遊戲公司防範犯罪、檢警偵查犯罪、法院審理案件之人力、費用等資源）達到遏止犯 罪發生之最大效用。此外，如果適用民事侵權行為法則管制網路不法行為，應否對遊戲公司（即網路服務提供者，ISP）課以一定的責任，才能遏止不法行為之發生。全文將分為三個部分論述：第一部分介紹刑法第36 章「妨害電腦使用罪」立法通過前，關於「盜用」他人線上遊戲「寶物、天幣」等行為，在司法實務上所產生之法律適用問題。第二部分則係簡述學者對於新增訂刑法妨害電腦使用罪章之不同看法，顯示法律解釋、適用之爭議仍不能避免。第三部分再從經濟分析之觀點提出建議，希能從課以遊戲公司預防不 法行為之責任出發，建構一個「高犯罪成本」的線上遊戲環境，進而以「低預防成本」達到刑法第36 章試圖遏止網路不法行為之立法目的，同時亦能防止網路侵權行為之發生。 People who get on the Internet by broadband facility, such as ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), are increasing tremendously these days and that has been bringing diverse impacts on our society. According to a survey conducted by the Taiwan Network Information Center, the on-line game is one of the most popular amusements among those activities. Due to the trend of playing on-line games, many legal disputes are inevitably invoked on the Internet. Firstly, we have to think about how to adjust legal rules or to enact new statutes and then applying them to Cyberspace. In order to deal with those disputes, the Legislative Yuan enacted the whole new Chapter of Criminal Code, Crimes of Disrupting Computer Usages, on June 3, 2003. However, there should be a gap between the law in books and law in action. For the purpose of examining whether the objects of law are fulfilled or not, we should not only be focusing on the logical procedure of legal tradition, but also excising a new approach, economic analysis of law, to evaluate the effects of the new statute and, in addition, to provide a different point of view for judges and other legal enforcement agents to elaborate the new law. For the sake of resolving on-line disputes by the new statute, this article will analyze the issue through cost-benefit module based on economic analysis. The point here is how to increase the cost of committing the perpetration that would keep a ration and self-interest person away from the wrongdoing act. Furthermore, the benefit of increasing the cost of perpetration would decrease the cost of legal enforcement. As a result, we will achieve the purpose of law for preventing on-line game crimes.

Predatory monetization schemes in video games are purchasing systems that disguise or withhold the long‐term cost of the activity until players are already financially and psychologically committed. Such schemes contribute to the increasing similarity of gaming and gambling and the potential for financial harm for those with Internet gaming disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: For many computer activities, user verification is necessary before the system will authorize access. The objective of verification is to separate genuine account owners from intruders or miscreants. In this paper, we propose a general user verification approach based on user trajectories. A trajectory consists of a sequence of coordinated inputs. We study several kinds of trajectories, including on-line game traces, mouse traces, handwritten characters, and traces of the movements of animals in their natural environments. The proposed approach, which does not require any extra action by account users, is designed to prevent the possible copying or duplication of information by unauthorized users or automatic programs, such as bots. Specifically, the approach focuses on finding the hidden patterns embedded in the trajectories produced by account users. We utilize a Markov chain model with a Gaussian distribution in its transition to describe trajectory behavior. To distinguish between two trajectories, we introduce a novel dissimilarity measure combined with a manifold learned tuning technique to capture the pairwise relationship between the two trajectories. Based on that pairwise relationship, we plug-in effective classification or clustering methods to detect attempts to gain unauthorized access. The method can also be applied to the task of recognition, and used to predict the type of trajectory without the user’s pre-defined identity. Our experiment results demonstrate that, the proposed method can perform better, or is competitive to existing state-of-the-art approaches, for both of the verification and recognition tasks. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Millions of people now participate in on line games, placing tremendous and often unpredictable maintenance burdens on their operators. Thus, understanding the dynamic behaviors of a player is critical for the systems, network, and designers. To the best of our knowledge, little work builds character interaction model based on the data stream mining. This work improves our understanding the behaviors of avatar/player in a on line game by collecting the behavior data, extracting frequent behavior patterns, learning the hidden hints and making good prediction on responses to the unexpected impacts. Besides, we develop two efficient approaches for mining the behavior data to find the interesting behavior pattern for future prediction on responses of opponents. Our novel findings include the following: One, due to the constraints of limited resources of time, memory, and sample size, MSS-MB was proposed to meet these conditions; the other, due to the constraints of real-time and on-line, there may have some errors occurred in the processing period, MSS-BE was proposed to control the errors as needed. Finally, based on the experimental results, we can predict the responses of opponents efficiently in the on line game. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Computer games can be categorized into many genres. This study assesses and classifies on-line games by using grey relational analysis (GRA). According with the GRA method it is hoped that players can get satisfied by fulfilling their psychological needs from on-line games. Finally. a case study demonstrates the popularity of massive multiple on-line role play game (MMORPG). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The bulk of recent studies have tested whether video games change the brain in terms of activity and cortical volume. However, such studies are limited by several factors including cross-sectional comparisons, co-morbidity, and short-term follow-up periods. In the present study, we hypothesized that cognitive flexibility and the volume of brain cortex would be correlated with the career length of on-line pro-gamers., Methods: High-resolution magnetic resonance scans were acquired in twenty-three pro-gamers recruited from StarCraft pro-game teams. We measured cortical thickness in each individual using FreeSurfer and the cortical thickness was correlated with the career length and the performance of the pro-gamers., Results: CAREER LENGTH WAS POSITIVELY CORRELATED WITH CORTICAL THICKNESS IN THREE BRAIN REGIONS: right superior frontal gyrus, right superior parietal gyrus, and right precentral gyrus. Additionally, increased cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex was correlated with winning rates of the pro-game league. Increased cortical thickness in the prefrontal and parietal cortices was also associated with higher performance of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test., Conclusion: Our results suggest that in individuals without pathologic conditions, regular, long-term playing of on-line games is associated with volume changes in the prefrontal and parietal cortices, which are associated with cognitive flexibility.