[Link] Raytheon given $10.5 to develop 'serious games' for bias reduction

post by curiousepic · 2011-11-19T00:09:48.800Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 comments

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/raytheon-gets-105m-develop-serious-games

Under a contract from the government's cutting edge research group, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Raytheon BBN will develop game-based training programs featuring an international detective theme developed by game designers, cognitive psychologists and experts in intelligence analysis and in measuring game-player engagement.

The gaming system will focus on certain types of bias that frequently hurt effective decision-making:

• Confirmation bias -- the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms preconceptions.
• Blind spot bias -- being less aware of one's own cognitive biases than those of others.
• Fundamental attribution error -- over-emphasizing personality-based or character-based effects on behavior.
• Anchoring bias -- relying too heavily on one trait or one piece of information.
• Representative bias -- judging the likelihood of a hypothesis by its resemblance to immediately available data.
• Projection bias -- assuming others share one's current feelings, values or thinking

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