Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.

We study an individual’s propensity for rational thinking; the avoidance of cognitive biases (unconscious errors generated by our mental simplification methods) using a novel augmented reality (AR) platform. Specifically, we developed an odd-one-out (OOO) game-like task in AR designed to try to ind...

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Main Authors: Piotr Słowiński, Ben Grindley, Helen Muncie, David Harris, Samuel Vine, Mark Wilson
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of Eye Movement Research
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/8296
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David Harris
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Mark Wilson
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description We study an individual’s propensity for rational thinking; the avoidance of cognitive biases (unconscious errors generated by our mental simplification methods) using a novel augmented reality (AR) platform. Specifically, we developed an odd-one-out (OOO) game-like task in AR designed to try to induce and assess confirmatory biases. Forty students completed the AR task in the laboratory, and the short form of the comprehensive assessment of rational thinking (CART) online via the Qualtrics platform. We demonstrate that behavioural markers (based on eye, hand and head movements) can be associated (linear regression) with the short CART score – more rational thinkers have slower head and hand movements and faster gaze movements in the second more ambiguous round of the OOO task. Furthermore, short CART scores can be associated with the change in behaviour between two rounds of the OOO task (one less and one more ambiguous) – hand-eye-head coordination patterns of the more rational thinkers are more consistent in the two rounds. Overall, we demonstrate the benefits of augmenting eye-tracking recordings with additional data modalities when trying to understand complicated behaviours.
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spelling doaj-art-51b79d2d12714284aa448b72bb20e9eb2025-08-20T03:26:26ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922022-12-0115310.16910/jemr.15.3.4Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.Piotr Słowiński0Ben Grindley1Helen MuncieDavid Harris2Samuel Vine3Mark Wilson4University of ExeterDSTL, UK Ministry of Defence University of ExeterUniversity of ExeterUniversity of Exeter We study an individual’s propensity for rational thinking; the avoidance of cognitive biases (unconscious errors generated by our mental simplification methods) using a novel augmented reality (AR) platform. Specifically, we developed an odd-one-out (OOO) game-like task in AR designed to try to induce and assess confirmatory biases. Forty students completed the AR task in the laboratory, and the short form of the comprehensive assessment of rational thinking (CART) online via the Qualtrics platform. We demonstrate that behavioural markers (based on eye, hand and head movements) can be associated (linear regression) with the short CART score – more rational thinkers have slower head and hand movements and faster gaze movements in the second more ambiguous round of the OOO task. Furthermore, short CART scores can be associated with the change in behaviour between two rounds of the OOO task (one less and one more ambiguous) – hand-eye-head coordination patterns of the more rational thinkers are more consistent in the two rounds. Overall, we demonstrate the benefits of augmenting eye-tracking recordings with additional data modalities when trying to understand complicated behaviours. https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/8296Eye movementhand movementhead movementearth mover’s distancecorrelation matrixeye tracking
spellingShingle Piotr Słowiński
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Samuel Vine
Mark Wilson
Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.
Journal of Eye Movement Research
Eye movement
hand movement
head movement
earth mover’s distance
correlation matrix
eye tracking
title Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.
title_full Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.
title_fullStr Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.
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title_short Assessment of cognitive biases in augmented reality: Beyond eye tracking.
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topic Eye movement
hand movement
head movement
earth mover’s distance
correlation matrix
eye tracking
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