Final year Ph.D. student, Taylan Sen, collaborates with incoming Ph.D. student, Kurtis Haut, and wins the first place at the CASE challenge.

How do we ensure that information sources around us reliable, honest, and trustworthy? IARPA held a challenge encouraging teams to propose experimental protocols that are more likely to generalize across various scenarios towards objectively measuring credibility. The challenge is called CASE —  Credibility Assessment Standardized Evaluation and comes with up to $125K of prize money.

Taylan and Kurtis have pitched a solution which was judged as top 3, and were invited to DC for a pitch competition. The Pitch Presentation, Stage 2, of The CASE Challenge was held during the Challenge Workshop on July 18, 2019 in Washington, D.C. The Workshop was a full day of presentations and panel discussions from subject matter experts across industry, academia, and government around credibility assessment. During the event, the Credibility Champions from Stage 1 pitched their Solution to a live panel of Judges and audience members.
The team proposed SPIDER2 (Scalable Protocol for Interview-based Deception technology Evaluation with Realism and Replicability). It is an interview-based evaluation in which participants are required to construct a device and then are subjected to both an Interview and a Debrief. The Interview and Debriefing sessions are then used as sets of data for credibility assessment.
Here is the press release by IARPA on the first round winners. https://www.herox.com/CASEchallenge/updates#
We have an active project funded by the Army Research Office (ARO) on deception in which Taylan and Kurtis have played a key role since its inception.
The ideas in this competition are based on our prior work which appeared in UbiComp 2018.