Choice Confidence And Persuasion Resistance Through Mouse Action Observation

Abstract

With the growing interconnected nature of social discourse, manipulative actors take advantage of those who are more open to persuasion. One way of determining those who are susceptible to manipulation are those who do not hold concrete opinions on a subject and may take the word of those who wish to direct their position on social or political issues. One way this could be done is if a persons confidence on a topic could be evaluated and then subjugated to directed propaganda with the goal to change or solidify their choice. By conducting an online survey with mouse tracking analytics, this thesis aims to determine how online behavior could be turned against a user to direct their activity online. With such data, privacy advocates and government regulators will be better equipped to evaluate internet data-gathering methods of people online in order to better protect people from potential threats of online groups that are looking to manage the behavior of others.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2020
Accession Number
AD1126796

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  • Harlan T Cheer

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  • Naval Postgraduate School

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  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Automata Theory
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Big Data
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
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  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
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  • Psychology
  • Recurrent Neural Networks

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