Children and young people spend numerous hours on the Internet daily. While online, they meet a great number of opportunities as well as risks. Our objective is to develop and offer playful solutions for empowering children and young people with creative and critical digital skills, in an engaging and motivating way. The project is highly inter-disciplinary and spans across the fields of information security, user experience and educational science. SikkerhetsLøypa will build on the success of Kodeløypa (https://www.ntnu.no/skolelab/realfagloypene one of the scientific offers for children at NTNU) and CyberWiseKids [1] and focus on how to teach a new generation of online users to avoid risks in the internet, at the same time as learning how to explore the online opportunities.
[1] Aida Omerovic and Amela Karahasanovic. “CyberWiseKids“: Gamifying Education of Kids on Online Opportunities and Security Risks. ISBN: 978-82-14-06950-1. Technical Report 2019:00385, SINTEF, 2019.
The project will last for four years. Our ambition is to create sustainable new products and services by gamifying education on online opportunities and risks. This is expected to strengthen the publishing and e-learning sector in Norway in their capability to develop and offer products and services which are competitive nationally and internationally.
The project will create playful solutions for empowering children and young people with creative and critical digital skills, in an engaging and motivating way, by innovating gaming technologies with focus on Digital Story Telling in cooperation with the publishing, gaming and e-learning sector. Our objective is to create profitable new products and services by gamifying education on online opportunities and risks.
In the project we argue that crucial digital competence is the capability of making the right balance between online opportunity and online risk. The real challenge for digital children today is to employ this right balance in various online contexts. The overall novelty is gamification of digital empowerment of children and young people, and more specifically: serious gaming approach to user-centered and adaptive training in cyber security risks and online opportunities. The key challenge is to innovate these new products and services in a way that makes them attractive, fun and educative, so the kids actually want to use them.
Project leader: Letizia Jaccheri, IDI Department of Computer Science, NTNU
Participants:
Deepti Mishra, IDI Department of Computer Science, NTNU
Siv Hilde Houmb, CTO, Secure-NOK AS & Associate Professor Adjunct, Norwegian Information Security laboratory NTNU
Aida Omerovic, Research scientist, ICT department , SINTEF
The international network of this specific project will be developed by carefully choosing partners from ongoing European and International projects. We mention concretely :
- H2020 Umi_Sci_Ed http://umi-sci-ed.eu/ – Partners: University of Helsinki; University of Pisa; https://all-digital.org/, CUBIT https://www.cubitlab.com/en/; CTI http://www.cti.gr/en/
- H2020 Come&Play https://comnplayscience.eu/ – Partners: University of Oulo; Forth; Eindhoven University of Technology; Uppsala Universitet; Technische Universität München; University of Malta; King’s College London.
- NFR IPIT ipit.network – Partners: University of Michigan; Tsinghua University; Nanjing University
Relevant Links
https://www.ntnu.edu/ccis/cybersmart
Slides Event 18 June
- Letizia letizia-18.06.19
- Sofia Papavlasopoulou Kodeløypa, Research issues and lessons learned
- Aida Omerovic, CyberWiser + CyberWiseKids
- Michail Giannakos multimodal Data
- Rabail Tahir my PhD project
- Berit Bungum Seminar_IDI_KreTek
- Vasileios Gkioulos Presentation
Letizia Jaccheri 