Liar, Liar, IM on Fire: Deceptive language-action cues in spontaneous online communication

Author

Ho, Shuyuan Mary ; Booth, Cheryl ; Timmarajus, Shashanka S. ; Hancock, Jeffrey T. ; Xiuwen Liu ; Burmester, Mike

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

27-29 May 2015

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

159

Abstract

With an increasing number of online users, the potential danger of online deception grows accordingly - as does the importance of better understanding human behavior online to mitigate these risks. One critical element to address such online threat is to identify intentional deception in spontaneous online communication. For this study, we designed an interactive online game that creates player scenarios to encourage deception. Data was collected and analyzed in October 2014 to identify certain deceptive cues. Players´ interactive dialogue was analyzed using linear regression analysis. The results reveal that certain language features are highly significant predictors of deception in synchronous, spontaneous online communication.

Keywords

Internet; computer games; computer mediated communication; interactive systems; regression analysis; CMC; computer mediated communication; intentional deception identification; interactive online game; language-action cue; linear regression analysis; online communication; Computer mediated communication; Computer science; Detectors; Games; Linear regression; Media; Pragmatics; computer-mediated communication; interpersonal deception theory; language-action features; regression analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-9888-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISI.2015.7165960

Filename

7165960