University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training
Workshop for Operationally Defining Intuitive Decision-making and Research Initiatives
4-5 February 2009
UCF Partnership II Building Room 208
3100 Technology Parkway
Orlando, FL • 32826
This two day workshop will focus on understanding the role of intuition in the decisionmaking process and defining the research objectives and methods for extending our community’s understanding of this domain. Research into intuitive decisionmaking has revealed that Warfighters and other professionals in high stakes domains frequently rely on an intuitive process to make critical decisions. Intuition appears to allow us to react faster and process complex situations more efficiently without conscious analytic processes. (See for example, Sources of Power, Klein, 1998). Recent research in neuroscience has also explored the phenomenon of intuition and developed evidence of intuition as a distinct mental state. This research proposes a neuroscience of intuition. (See for example, Volz 2006; 2008). Exploration of the phenomenon may enable us to support intuitive decisionmaking during operations through creation of better operational tools to invoke and support the intuitive process. Efforts to operationalize the phenomenon and develop methods and metrics to isolate intuition as a neurological event during a range of performance tasks will form the foundation for exploring tools to support more effective decisionmaking through neurally-based design.
The objective of this workshop are (1) to define and validate reliable neurophysiological measures of intuition and relate those measures to operationally relevant decision tasks, (2) to define and test methods of manipulating the occurrence and time course of intuition. Pending the outcome of this workshop, we will host a second workshop at a future date that will focus on developing an initial architecture for future decision aids that measure and manage intuition in military tasks.
University of Central Florida’s Institute for Simulation & Training
Workshop for Operationally Defining Intuitive Decision-making and Research Initiatives
4-5 February 2009
UCF Partnership II Building Room 208
3100 Technology Parkway
Orlando, FL • 32826
This two day workshop will focus on understanding the role of intuition in the decisionmaking process and defining the research objectives and methods for extending our community’s understanding of this domain. Research into intuitive decisionmaking has revealed that Warfighters and other professionals in high stakes domains frequently rely on an intuitive process to make critical decisions. Intuition appears to allow us to react faster and process complex situations more efficiently without conscious analytic processes. (See for example, Sources of Power, Klein, 1998). Recent research in neuroscience has also explored the phenomenon of intuition and developed evidence of intuition as a distinct mental state. This research proposes a neuroscience of intuition. (See for example, Volz 2006; 2008). Exploration of the phenomenon may enable us to support intuitive decisionmaking during operations through creation of better operational tools to invoke and support the intuitive process. Efforts to operationalize the phenomenon and develop methods and metrics to isolate intuition as a neurological event during a range of performance tasks will form the foundation for exploring tools to support more effective decisionmaking through neurally-based design.
The objective of this workshop are (1) to define and validate reliable neurophysiological measures of intuition and relate those measures to operationally relevant decision tasks, (2) to define and test methods of manipulating the occurrence and time course of intuition. Pending the outcome of this workshop, we will host a second workshop at a future date that will focus on developing an initial architecture for future decision aids that measure and manage intuition in military tasks.