Dr. Shuyuan Ho, Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), Florida’s iSchool, has been awarded a two year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The grant team will be led by Dr. Ho (Principal Investigator) and includes Dr. Xiuwen Liu (Co-Principal Investigator) and Dr. Mike Burmester (Co-Principal Investigator), both from FSU Computer Science. The team is working in partnership with a leading visionary in online deception research; Dr. Jeffrey Hancock from Cornell Information Science Department.
This collaborative research between Florida State University and Cornell University is to identify language-action features from text-based messages that can be used to dynamically infer a social actor’s perceived trustworthiness. The team will investigate using optimal analysis techniques to calibrate trustworthiness reasoning, which can be used to computationally model actors’ deceptive behaviors in cyber space and to infer actors’ intent based on their words and actions.