Aug 19, 2015

The grant from the NSF’s ’s Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, from September 2015 through August 2017, supports her project, Teaching Bias Mitigation through Training Games with Application in Credibility Attribution.  This project will develop and study an interactive game entitled VERITAS for making players aware of their cognitive bias in decision making and attempting to mitigate its effects. The game focuses on detecting deception and many of the research participants are from law enforcement. The project will contribute to the understanding of how cognitive biases function within the context of deception detection and will advance understanding of how a game may be better suited than traditional learning methods at mitigating cognitive biases. For more details, please see http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1523083&HistoricalAwards=false