Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, & Trust (ELICIT)
Evidence Based Research Inc. (EBR) has been involved in experimentation activities to investigate the C2 impact of cognition and collaboration processes, the distribution of decision rights, patterns of interaction, the structures of information flow, and other net centric related concepts. EBR has supported the Command and Control Research Program in the design and development of a software environment for conducting applications focused on information, cognitive and social domain phenomena. This web-based environment, named ELICIT (Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust), presents a group of agents with an information distribution and assembly problem to explore how information is shared and how shared awareness is generated. Researchers can use ELICIT to observe trust related behaviors and measure indicators of trust in team problem solving situations in both human and software agent-based experimentation.
Modeled initially as a human-in-the-loop experiment, ELICIT can also support agent-based experimentation. In abELICIT (Agent Based Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust), each agent has more than fifty behavior settings that allow the user to closely mimic human behaviors. The web interface allows users to design organic information, information distribution rules, organizational structure, and social network. By exploring ELICIT datasets, analysts can gain insights into the factors influencing important aspects of command and control (C2) quality.