BACKGROUND/METHOD Decision aids have not been widely tested in diverse audiences. The authors conducted interviews in a 2 x 2 race by education design with participants who were 50 years old (n = 188). The decision aid was a benign prostatic hyperplasia videotape. RESULTS There was an increase in knowledge equal in all groups, with baseline knowledge higher in whites. The decision stage incre...

Game Theory -based decision aids have been successfully employed in real-world policing, anti-terrorism, and wildlife conservation efforts (Tambe, Jiang, An, & Jain, 2013). Cognitive modeling, in concert with model tracing and dynamic parameter fitting techniques, may be used to improve the performance of such decision aids by predicting individual attacker behavior in repeated security games. ...

Most research on interorganisational information systems has primarily focused on systems that support transaction processing. What is less developed, however, is research on systems that provide interorganisational decision support. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of these types of systems, by developing a model that introduces the relationship between interorganisational informati...

We present a methodological framework for constructing and evaluating decision aids--fast and frugal trees (FFTs)--ideally suited to the front line of an organisation. Their performance can be analysed in signal detection theory, allowing for transparent selection of FFTs given managerial-level trade-offs among type I and II errors. We extend FFTs from binary classification to selection from mu...

Interactive decision support applications might help patients to make difficult decisions about their health care. They lie in the context of traditional decision aids, which are known to have effects on a number of patient outcomes, including knowledge and decisional conflict. The problem of restricted uptake with decision aids may be addressed by interactive applications, particularly if asso...

Widespread variation in medical practices and outcomes in seemingly similar populations has raised serious concerns about the quality of health care (1). Well-documented variations in outcomes can be explained partly by failures to apply best practices consistently in delivering care known to be effective (1,2). Equally important, however, are variations in rates of specific surgical or medical...

We are investigating decision aids that present potential courses of action available to emergency responders. To determine whether these aids improve decision quality, however, we first developed test scenarios that were challenging in well-understood ways to ensure testing under the full breadth of representative decision-making situations. We devised a three-step method of developing scenari...