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AMT 2013: Active Media Technology pp 74–83Cite as

Gamification of Community Policing: SpamCombat

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The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, it seeks to introduce the conceptual prototype of SpamCombat, a Web application that helps combat spam through gamification of community policing. Second, it attempts to evaluate SpamCombat by identifying factors that can potentially drive users’ behavioral intention to adopt. A questionnaire seeking quantitative and qualitative responses was administered to 120 participants. The results indicate that behavioral intention to adopt SpamCombat is generally promising. Most participants appreciated the novelty of SpamCombat in supporting community policing to promote a spam-free cyber space. However, participants felt that using SpamCombat could be time-consuming.

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  1. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Alton Y. K. Chua & Snehasish Banerjee

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N-14 W-9, 060-0814, Sapporo, Japan

    Tetsuya Yoshida

  2. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China

    Gang Kou

  3. Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, Banacha 2, 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej Skowron

  4. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Jiannong Cao

  5. Bell Labs, Paris, France

    Hakim Hacid

  6. Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-cho, 371-0816, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Ning Zhong

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Chua, A.Y.K., Banerjee, S. (2013). Gamification of Community Policing: SpamCombat. In: Yoshida, T., Kou, G., Skowron, A., Cao, J., Hacid, H., Zhong, N. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8210. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02750-0_8

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