Culture & Cognition Laboratory

This is the final report for research done under in-house Workunit 71841009 entitled the Culture Cognition Laboratory CCL during the period 5 June 2005 through 7 April 2010. Although CCL is an Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL Human Effectiveness Directorate research facility, it is located off-site at Wright State University WSU per a Cooperative Agreement for laboratory space and a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for general research support. The report includes descriptions of the physical aspects of CCL, its capabilities, the Situation Authorable Research Environment SABRE used to conduct experiments, descriptions of experiments using a computer role-play game which enables complex problem solving by actively engaged interacting players from different cultures, a review of behavior modeling efforts under the workunit, and a novel statistical techniques measuring maximal diversity in teams. The report concludes with an extensive set of lessons learned and recommendations.