VORTRAG ******* Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Elaine Raybourn Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque TOWARD THE COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, AND CULTURAL STRESSORS ON HUMAN DECISION-MAKING: A PEACEMAKING SCENARIO My presentation will describe an approach taken by Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to represent the cognitive, cultural, and physiological variability in decision-making under stress. A project focused on the computational representation of an individual in an ambiguous, highly stressful situation while faced with a high-consequence decision that greatly impacted subsequent events. This project sought to demonstrate steps toward a realistic computational representation of the variability encountered in human behavior. A software model of a scenario adapted from a Desert Storm incident was developed in which the framework consisted of a computational instantiation of Recognition Primed Decision Making in the context of a Naturalistic Decision Making model (Klein, 1997). Recognition Primed Decision Making was augmented with an underlying foundation based on a basic understanding of human neurophysiology and its relationship to human cognitive processes. The goal was to provide initial steps toward a computational representation of human variability in cultural, cognitive, and physiological (arousal, emotions, etc.) state in order to attain a better understanding of the full depth of human decision-making processes in the context of ambiguity, novelty, and heightened arousal. I will present the research undertaken in the project, and discuss the challenges we encountered, and provide a basis from an intercultural communication perspective for reasons why we must be very careful in modeling cultural dynamics. Zeit: Freitag, 14. Dezember 2001, 17:00 Uhr pktl. Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Trappl