[Link] Raytheon given $10.5 to develop ‘serious games’ for bias reduction
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
The title doesn’t have an “m” or the word “million”, so it looks like they got 10.5 dollars.