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Title Introducing myself and the project 'decision making under stress'
Abstract The main focus of this presentation will be to introduce myself, tell you some of my (research) interests and cover some of the things I did during my study. Furthermore, I shall describe the project I will be working on: 'a training environment for decision making under stress'. The main goal of this project is to develop an intelligent system that is able to analyse human decision making processes in stressful circumstances, and analyse the causes of incorrect decisions. In addition, the system will be incorporated in an electronic training environment for emergency workers. In this environment, trainees will be placed in a virtual emergency scenario, in which they have to make difficult decisions, while negative emotions are induced. During the scenario, various existing techniques will be applied to measure their mental state (i.e., stress level and anxiety). This information will then be used as input for the intelligent system, to determine why they made certain incorrect decisions and teach them how to improve this.