Group Performance in Military Scenarios under Deceptive Conditions

The goal of this research was to investigate how changes in modality (communication type) and external conditioning (warnings of player deception) relate to perceptions of deception and task difficulty and in turn how these perceptions relate to the final group game scores in a cooperative effort with conflicting goals. One hundred and eight participants were grouped into teams of three, given similar instructions but different goals, and asked to play a cooperative game called StrikeCOM that mimics the intelligence gathering needed to develop an air tasking order and subsequent air strike on three military targets. The analysis of the post-game surveys showed support for participants in games using a face-to-face communication method to have lower perceptions of deception and task difficulty when compared to games using real-time plain text chat.Air Force Inst of Tech Wright-Patterson AFB OH School of Engineering and Management is the author of 'Group Performance in Military Scenarios under Deceptive Conditions', published 2004 under ISBN 9781423518167 and ISBN 1423518160.