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UCSB Four Eyes Lab PhD student James Schaffer, researcher John O’Donovan, professor Tobias Höllerer, and colleagues at SA Technologies, the US Army Research Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2014), which took place in San Antonio, TX on March 3-6, 2014.

The award-winning paper is entitled “Decision-making in Abstract Trust Games: A User Interface Perspective.” It presents research on understanding trust-based decision making in a multi-agent scenario based on the Iterated Diner’s Dilemma, an n-player variant of the well-known Prisoner’s Dilemma. The authors explored the impact on user interface design decisions on situation awareness and player performance.