Title
The Role of Cognitive Biases in Criminal Intelligence Analysis and Approaches for their Mitigation
Abstract
In the domain of criminal intelligence analysis, each day an analyst has to make sense and to create insight of a large amount of different data. However, due to the nature of human cognition, these cognitive processes may lead to systematic errors, so-called cognitive biases. In this paper, based on relevant state-of-the-art, preliminary ideas how to support the mitigation of cognitive biases - included in a visual analytics environment for criminal intelligence analysis currently being developed in the VALCRI project - are presented. By analysing user requirements and aligning them to the state-of-the-art research in the area of cognitive biases and their mitigation, eight cognitive biases have been identified as the most relevant ones. Six design guidelines have been proposed that help to mitigate one of them, the confirmation bias. At the current stage, the suggested mitigation strategies and resulting guidelines are the basis for further research, development, and experiments in order to derive evidence-based scientific results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/EISIC.2015.9
EISIC
Keywords
Field
DocType
cognitive bias, bias mitigation strategies, design guidelines, criminal intellegince ananylsis
Cognitive bias,Confirmation bias,Systematic error,Computer science,Visual analytics,Design methods,Cognition,User requirements document,Intelligence analysis,Management science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eva-Catherine Hillemann1304.66
Alexander Nussbaumer26113.27
Dietrich Albert343063.65