Lecturer: Niklas Keller
Fields: Cognitive Science / Decision Making / Machine Learning
Content
The talk will provide the students with an overview of decision environments and the impact they have on the utility of different (heuristic & competence-driven vs statistical or machine learning) approaches to decision making. It will discuss under which conditions simpler strategies can lead to better predictions than modern data-driven technologies and how to foster decision-making competence for an uncertain world.
Literature
- Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences
- Gigerenzer, G. & Brighton, H., Jan 2009, In: Topics in Cognitive Science. 1, 1, p. 107-143 37 p.
- Luan, S., Reb, J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2019). Ecological rationality: Fast-and-frugal heuristics for managerial decision making under uncertainty. Academy of Management Journal, 62(6), 1735–1759. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2018.0172
- Keller N, Jenny MA, Spies CA, Herzog SM. Augmenting Decision Competence in Healthcare Using AI-based Cognitive Models. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI48887.2020.
Lecturer
Dr. Niklas Keller is a research associate at the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Charité University Medicine, Berlin, and an associated scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, as well as the “Decision Engineering and Decision Sciences” lab at the Michigan Technological University. The work and research focus of Niklas Keller lies in the field of organizational psychology, developing methods to support decisions in critical situations, as well as risk communication and defensive decision-making. In cooperation with the German Armed Forces, he developed simple decision support tools to differentiate between civilians and suicide bombers at military checkpoints. In his work at the Charité, he tought medical students and physicians to interpretat and communicate medical statistics and developed tools to improve post-operative patient allocation and patient-handovers.
Affiliation: Simply Rational – The Decision Institute
Homepage: https://www.simplyrational.de/en/