The Percepts and Concepts Laboratory at Indiana University would like
to to invite you to participate in our interactive, on-line group
experiments. The games are entertaining and should be intriguing to
those interested in cognitive science, psychology etc. Some of the
games that we are currently working on include:
Forager: In this experiment, we are interested in how groups of people
allocate themselves to resources. Your goal in a four-minute experiment
is to pick up as many resources as you can by moving your icon with the
arrow keys.
Spread of Innovations: This experiment explores how innovative ideas
spread in a group. As you try to solve a puzzle, you see the solutions
proposed by your neighbors, and they see your solutions.
Opinion Sharing: You rate things (e.g. faces, music, or paintings) and
can see the ratings given by others. Over several rounds of ratings,
does your group converge in its opinion or not?
In all of these experiment, you play with other humans when they are
available or with artificial intelligence bots when no other humans are
currently on-line. By playing our games, our GEE group benefits because
we collect data on how collective behavior in human groups emerges, and
you benefit by
1) learning about current research questions and methods in the social
sciences,
2) sharing an engrossing, communal experience with others people (or
bots!),
3) playing games that have deeper significance and more interesting
dynamics than solitaire, tetris, or the typical fodder of on-line
games.
The experiments will run on any computer that has Java 1.4 or later,
and can be
found at:
http://groups.psych.indiana.edu/
If you like the experiments, please tell your friends or favorite news
group, blog, or forum. The more people who are in our virtual world at
any time, the more fun it is (and the more data we collect). Also,
please reply to this email is you would like to be placed on our
mailing list, or if you're willing to place a link to our site on your
web page. If you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements,
please email Andy Jones <andjones RemoveThis @indiana.edu> or Allen Lee
<alllee RemoveThis @cs.indiana.edu>, and CC Rob Goldstone
(rgoldsto@indiana.edu).
Thank you for being part of the global brain,
The Group Experiment Environments (GEE) team
Robert Goldstone - Director
Rowan Johnston - PR/Marketing/Research
Andy Jones - Programmer/Researcher
Allen Lee - Programmer/Researcher
Zoran Rilak - Programmer/Researcher
Michael Roberts - Artificial Inteligence and Computational Modeler
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