Changing Faces: Identifying Complex Behavioural Profiles

There has been significant interest in the identification and profiling of insider threats, attracting high-profile policy focus and strategic research funding from governments and funding bodies. Recent examples attracting worldwide attention include the cases of Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and the US authorities. The challenges with profiling an individual across a range of activities is that their data footprint will legitimately vary significantly based on time and/or location. The insider threat problem is thus a specific instance of the more general problem of profiling complex behaviours. In this paper, we discuss our preliminary research models relating to profiling complex behaviours and present a set of experiments related to changing roles as viewed through large-scale social network datasets, such as Twitter. We employ psycholinguistic metrics in this work, considering changing roles from the standpoint of a trait-based personality theory. We also present further representations, including an alternative psychological theory (not trait-based), and established techniques for crime modelling, spatio-temporal and graph/network, to investigate within a wider reasoning framework

Compilation of flight data from Titan III VEHICLES

Vibration, acoustic, and shock data for Titan III flight vehicl

Social and Relational Aspects of Bullying and Victimization in Elementary School: Strength-Based Strategies for Prevention

The purpose of this investigation is to study the relationship between types of bullying and victimization and problematic behaviors, which include both internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Social and relational data was examined on 22 fourth-grade elementary school students. Results of bivariate (Pearson) correlations indicate that internalizing problems demonstrated a positive relationship with verbal and relational bullying and externalizing problems demonstrated a positive relationship with physical, verbal, and relational victimization. The authors discuss implications and strength-based strategies for bullying prevention

Same incident, different story? Investigating early adolescents’ negative online peer interactions from different perspectives

The goal of this chapter was to describe lessons that can be learned from a qualitative study that aimed to gather perceptions that classmates have on the same negative online peer interactions within their peer group, such as online conflicts, online aggression, and cyberbullying. In order to gather these perspectives a combination of photo diaries and semistructured interviews (i.e., photo-elicitation interviewing) among a sample of 34 participants between 13 and 14 years old was used. A thematic analysis provided examples of different perceptions on the same events that happened within their peer group and demonstrated that early adolescents do not always realize that certain interactions online are labeled as “negative” or “hurtful” by others. Based on the findings and the experience of conducting this research, a checklist with guidelines on how to integrate and understand different perspectives was formulated