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Dr. Judee Burgoon discusses
her research on automating the detection of deception. |
On March 18, the Consortium of Social
Science Associations (COSSA), APA and the National Communication
Association co-sponsored a briefing on Capitol Hill entitled
"Detecting Deception: Research to Secure the Homeland"
featuring three prominent social scientists discussing deception
research from a variety of different perspectives. Dr.
Judee Burgoon,
Professor of Communication, Professor of Family Studies and Human
Development, and Director of Human Communication Research for the
Center for the Management of Information at the University of
Arizona, presented "Automating Detection of Deception and
Hostile Intent". Professor Burgoon reviewed research funded by
the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and
various intelligence agencies to study human deception, nonverbal
communication, and detection technologies with a goal of automating
the detection of deception. Much of that research focuses on
identifying the availability of different cues in different modes of
communication (e.g., evaluation of text vs. verbal behavior) that
can be used to reveal deception.
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Dr. Mark Frank answers a question from the audience.
Dr.
Charles Bond answers a question from the audience.
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Dr. Charles Bond, Professor of
Psychology at Texas Christian University in Forth
Worth, Texas,
presented "International Deception", an area in which he
has conducted cross-cultural comparisons of the ability of US,
Indian and Jordanian citizens to judge truth-telling within their
own culture as well as the other two. Additionally, he described
on-going research he's conducting to examine the cues people use to
judge whether someone is telling the truth across 75 nations and 42
languages. Dr. Mark Frank, Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication at Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey,
presented "Practical Approaches to Detecting Deception in
Counter-Terrorism", much of which dealt with the analysis of
"microexpressions", fleeting facial movements that are not
under voluntary control and that betray unique emotions. Dr Frank
described on-going research that is attempting to automate these
analyses as well as procedures to train observers to detect the
microexpressions in real time. The briefing was well-attended by congressional staff from seven
Senate and 17 House offices and committees, the Congressional
Research Service, General Accounting Office, Department of Homeland
Security, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and a
variety of other organizations with interests in National and
Homeland Security issues.
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Dr. Frank's presentation [PDF 850 KB]
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Dr. Burgoon's presentation [PPT 4 MB]
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Dr. Bond's presentation [PPT 520 KB]
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