Challenges to Combating Toxicity and Harassment in Multiplayer Games: Involving the HCI Games Research Community
Publication date
2022-11-07
Authors
Frommel, Julian
Mandryk, Regan
Klarkowski, Madison
Editors
Gerling, Kathrin
Iacovides, Jo
Malaka, Rainer
Bonsignore, Beth
Frommel, Julian
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Abstract
Toxicity is and remains a problem in multiplayer games, and can result in harm for players and game environments. Grounded in prior work, we present four challenges that impede solving the problem of toxicity and harassment. We believe that we need to overcome these challenges to ensure safe gaming spaces, and intend to stimulate discussion about how HCI Games research can make substantial contributions toward this goal.
Keywords
games, toxicity, toxic, harassment, griefing, hate, prediction, classification, support, Taverne
Citation
Frommel, J, Mandryk, R & Klarkowski, M 2022, Challenges to Combating Toxicity and Harassment in Multiplayer Games: Involving the HCI Games Research Community. in K Gerling, J Iacovides, R Malaka, B Bonsignore & J Frommel (eds), CHI PLAY '22 : Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 263–265. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505270.3558359