Research

Current Projects

The primary questions addressed in the DIS Lab concern the intersection of decision-making, judgment, and memory, with a focus on developing theoretical and computational models of behavior.

Current research in the DIS Lab includes research on information foraging, incentive structures in decision tasks, explainable artificial intelligence in decision support systems, and forecasting.

Selected Works

Illingworth, D. A., & Thomas, R. P. (2022). Strength of belief guides information foraging. Psychological Science, 33(3), 450-462.

Illingworth, D. A., & Feigh, K. M. (2022). Impact mapping for geospatial reasoning and decision-making. Human Factors, 64(8), 1363-1378. 

Illingworth, D. A., Lawrence, A., Dougherty, M. R., & Thomas, R. P. (2023, July). Using Perspective Taking and Information Paucity to Explore Alternative Realities. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 17-31). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. 

Parmar, S., Illingworth, D. A., & Thomas, R. P. (2021, September). Model blindness: A framework for understanding how model-based decision support systems can lead to performance degradation. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 65, pp. 680-684). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Parmar, S., Illingworth, D. A., & Thomas, R. P. (2023, September). Model blindness II: Investigating a model-based recommender system’s impact on decision making. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 163-170). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications.

Selected Presentations

Links

Google Scholar

Open Science Foundation

Frequent Collaborators

Rick Thomas

Georgia Institute of Technology

Decision Processes Laboratory

Michael Dougherty

University of Maryland, College Park

Decision, Attention, and Memory Laboratory