MOVICI
Modelling Online Vigilance and Institutions in the Communication of Information
MOVICI is a research programme examining how people search for, evaluate, learn from, and exchange information in digital and social environments. Its central concern is epistemic vigilance: how people decide what deserves attention, trust, verification, epistemic credit, and integration into knowledge.
The programme combines a theoretical framework (CAVL — Cognitive Architecture for Vigilant Learning), empirical studies of open Web search and cooperative or competitive debate, and an agent-based model exploring how local learning and credit-allocation mechanisms can generate cumulative trajectories over repeated interactions.
Across these studies, MOVICI connects prior knowledge, metacognition, information search, source evaluation, expertise recognition, epistemic credit, social interaction, and socially structured opportunities to learn.
Support
MOVICI has benefited from the financial, institutional, scientific, and infrastructural support of Université Côte d’Azur, MSHS Sud-Est, CoCoLab, MSI — Maison de la Modélisation, de la Simulation et des Interactions, DS4H — Digital Systems for Humans, and RISE — Academy of Excellence “Networks, Information and Digital Society”.
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Working Papers
CAVL: A Cognitive Architecture for Vigilant Learning
A theoretical architecture for understanding socially embedded vigilant learning.
Prior Knowledge and Learning from Open Web Search
How prior knowledge, search activity, source evaluation, and learning interact during open Web search.
Epistemic Credit in Cooperative and Competitive Debate
How cooperation and competition shape epistemic credit, calibration, and expertise recognition.
Learning from Documents and from Others: Knowledge Change and Epistemic Coordination
A within-participant comparison of learning from Web documents and learning through debate.
MOVICI Video Series
The five working papers are accompanied by accessible video presentations.