Method and Apparatus for Classification and Prediction of Internet Game Addiction using Decision Tree for Screening of Internet Game Addiction Adult Patients

摘要

The present invention is to discover main factors that can control an adult′s internet game addiction and to early screen an Internet game addiction group based on the main factors. An Internet overdependence prediction method according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a first step of collecting a plurality of data related to a plurality of users; a second step of extracting first data related to Internet use among the plurality of collected data; a third step of extracting second data corresponding to a predetermined factor related to Internet addiction from the first data; a fourth step of creating a model for determining the Internet addiction using at least one of the second data; a fifth step of creating a plurality of models for determining the Internet addiction by repeating the first to fourth steps; a sixth step of collecting third data related to a first user among the plurality of users; a seventh step of selecting a first model to be applied to the first user among the plurality of models using the third data; and an eighth step of determining whether the first user has the Internet addiction using the first model.