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Discern Science International develops automated deception-detection and credibility-assessment technology for high-stakes security screening. Its AVATAR system (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time) conducts a standardized automated interview and analyzes physiological and nonverbal behavioral signals to flag possible deception, with published accuracy in the 80-85% range depending on context. The underlying technology came out of more than $30 million of government-funded research at the University of Arizona and was licensed to the company through Tech Launch Arizona. The company is based in Tucson, Arizona.
What sets it apart
A screening system grounded in two decades of peer-reviewed University of Arizona research into nonverbal communication and credibility assessment, delivered as a deployable automated interview station rather than a human-administered examination.
An automated interview station that uses an AI virtual agent to question a subject while sensors capture physiological and nonverbal behavioral cues, producing a real-time assessment of the possibility of hidden deception.
