Toward Computer-Aided Support for the Detection of Deception: Volume 2

摘要

Collaborative distributed work is founded on principles of trust and good will. Yet, like all forms of human interaction, distributed interactions are as vulnerable (if not more so) as face-to-face communication to vested interests, hidden agendas, malicious and fraudulent messages, misrepresentations, concealment of adverse information, equivocations, and other forms of deception. Understanding how deception is perpetrated and can be detected when using computer-mediated communication and collaboration tools is a most timely topic, in light of the increasing ubiquity of social computing. Toward such understanding, we have assembled special issues on "Toward Computer-Aided Support for the Detection of Deception" that bring together the expertise and research traditions of scholars from such fields as management information systems, computer science, linguistics, behavioral science, communication, psychology, and criminal justice and run the gamut from theoretical precis to laboratory and field experiments to application development and testing. Papers received in response to the call for these special issues underwent three blind review cycles and reviews by a minimum of four reviewers. We are therefore confident that the resultant papers offer highly valuable insights into the world of deception in computer-mediated environments and the potential of assisting detection with the aid of computers.