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Hello,

Nice to meet you.

Question...: What exactly is "incorrectly calibrated user confidence level
on successfully using the non-determinitic output/recommendations of an 
information system?" ;)  I have never heard of this(very curious) can you 
give some detail?  

Regards,

Allwyn Crichlow

> 
> I would like to introduce myself to the list readers.  I am Bill Keely from
> Hagerstown, MD.  My day job is the Technical Director for the Security
> Directorate of Defense Information Systems Agency Western Hemisphere (DISA
> WESTHEM).
> 
> The rest of the time I am a Ph.D. student at University of Maryland at
> Baltimore County
> (UMBC).  My research area is the impact of an incorrectly calibrated user
> confidence level on successfully using the non-determinitic
> output/recommendations of an information system.  IDSs are a good platform
> for investigating this, due to their usual low probability, but high-risk
> environment.  Some of the factors I am considering including in my
> experimentation are the depth of user's knowledge of the information sources
> and the level of understanding of the IDS processing factors.
> 
> The driving idea behind this research is that even the most robust system
> will not be used if the user has lost confidence in it after a few
> false-positives.
> 
> Glad to be on the list, Bill
> 

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