스마트미디어저널 (Smart Media Journal)

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  • Pages.51-63
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  • 2022
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  • 2287-1322(pISSN)
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  • 2288-9671(eISSN)
한국스마트미디어학회 (THE KOREAN INSTITUTE OF SMART MEDIA)
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Action-Based Audit with Relational Rules to Avatar Interactions for Metaverse Ethics

  • Bang, Junseong (Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory, ETRI) ;
  • Ahn, Sunghee (School of Design Convergence, Hongik University)
  • 투고 : 2022.07.15
  • 심사 : 2022.08.01
  • 발행 : 2022.07.31
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초록

Metaverse provides a simulated environment where a large number of users can participate in various activities. In order for Metaverse to be sustainable, it is necessary to study ethics that can be applied to a Metaverse service platform. In this paper, Metaverse ethics and the rules for applying to the platform are explored. And, in order to judge the ethicality of avatar actions in social Metaverse, the identity, interaction, and relationship of an avatar are investigated. Then, an action-based audit approach to avatar interactions (e.g., dialogues, gestures, facial expressions) is introduced in two cases that an avatar enters a digital world and that an avatar requests the auditing to subjects, e.g., avatars controlled by human users, artificial intelligence (AI) avatars (e.g., as conversational bots), and virtual objects. Pseudocodes for performing the two cases in a system are presented and they are examined based on the description of the avatars' actions.

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This research was supported and funded by the Korean National Police Agency. [Pol-Bot Development for Conversational Police Knowledge Services / PR09-01-000-20] and supported by Hongik University Research Fund 2018.

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