Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page 9

Wednesday, January 23, $4M project at UA targets deception Military communication, command, control, computers and information have to function as a seamless unit, Burgoon noted. She said there are other exciting advances in detecting deception, such as recent Mayo Clinic findings that sophisticated facial imaging could uncover lies as effectively as a polygraph test. But questions remain about reliability, and Burgoon said only a combination of tools can do the trick. they're well-trained." Burgoon, a communication professor and director of human communication research at the University of Arizona's Center for the Management of Information, reports to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research on the five-year project Collaborating with Burgoon and her UA team are researchers at Florida State University, Michigan State University and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. One goal is to devise computer software or hardware tools that could detect potentially deceptive patterns or characteristics in electronic transmissions such as e-mail or cellular phone conversations.