What we know
The authors abstract the cyber deception task using a modified version of Battleship, played either face-to-face or with a divider, in order to study deception from the human point of view of attacker and defender. According to the deposited abstract, deception was higher in the divider condition and patterns such as blatant lies, diversion, and honeypots were observed, along with behavioral cues including variations in tone of voice, less eye contact, and lower response time.
Evidence limits
This description is based only on the abstract deposited in Crossref metadata; it does not imply full-text reading, replication of results, or independent validation.
Reviewed: author abstract. Full-text results were not analyzed.
Sources and provenance
- An Abstraction of Cyber Inception: Using a Modified Version of Battleship to Study Strategies and Behavior of Deception
abstract · 2026-10-11
Reviewed: 2026-10-16. This record may change when new evidence is found.