Cognitive bias – Valcri https://valcri.org VALCRI is a European Union project Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:37:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 White Paper WP-2017-006: Psychological Factors in Criminal Intelligence Analysis: What they are, why they are important, and how to deal with them https://euprojectvalcri.org/publications/white-paper-psychological-factors-in-criminal-intelligence-analysis-what-they-are-why-they-are-important-and-how-to-deal-with-them/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:45:58 +0000 https://euprojectvalcri.org/?p=1505 ...]]> This paper presents a framework that deals with psychological aspects that are relevant in the daily work of criminal analysts. These aspects include structuring and reasoning of criminal information, understanding and sense-making of information, and the mitigation of cognitive biases in the analytics process. Each of these human factors is described in terms of a problem statement, how the problem is addressed, and which results have been achieved so far. The Human Issues Framework bundles them and gives advice on how they can be taken up by system designers and developers. In this way the Human Issues Framework builds a sound basis for the design and specification of visual analytic systems for criminal analysis from a psychological perspective.

Keywords

Criminal analysis, reasoning, evidential structuring, sense-making, cognitive bias, human issues framework.

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G. Ellis and A. Dix, “Decision Making Under Uncertainty in Visualisation?” IEEE workshop on Visualization for Decision Making under Uncertainty, VIS 2015, Chicago, USA

Abstract:

Decision making under uncertainty can lead to irrational behaviour; such errors are often being referred to as cognitive biases. Related work in this area has tended to focus on the human’s analytic and sensemaking processes. This paper puts forward a novel perspective on this, proposing that some cognitive biases can also occur in the process of viewing visualisations. Consequently, this source of error may have a negative impact on decision making. This paper presents examples of situations where cognitive biases in visualisation can occur and outlines a future user study to investigate the anchoring and adjustment cognitive biases in visualisation.

keywords – Cognitive bias, visualisation, decision making, uncertainty

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