The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Daniel C. Richardson (Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London) Date: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 - 17:00-18:30 Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments Daniel C. Richardson Department of Experimental Psychology University College London During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience member to take part in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game simultaneously using their smart phones or tablets. We can collect responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a laboratory cubicle. Audience members will explore the behaviour and decision making of groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and take difficult decisions. Our eventual goal is to address a range of theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or in competition, with a room full of people? - See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d… Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments� Daniel C. Richardson Department of Experimental Psychology University College London � During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience member to take part� in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game simultaneously using their� smart� phones or tablets. We can collect responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a laboratory cubicle. Audience members will explore the behaviour and� decision making of� groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and take difficult decisions.� Our� eventual� goal is to� address a range of theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or in competition, with a room full of people?� - See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d… Exploring the group mind through mass participation experiments During this talk, I will present emerging results and allow audience member to take part in a new experimental paradigm: mass participation games. In our experiments, hundreds of people can play a computer game simultaneously using their smart phones or tablets. We can collect responses from a lecture hall full of people with the precision of a laboratory cubicle. Audience members will explore the behaviour and decision making of groups. Together they will play video games, resolve disagreements and take difficult decisions. Our eventual goal is to address a range of theoretical questions with experimental manipulations and computer modelling. Do participants play as if they were alone, or as a group? If so, do they represent the group as a single entity, or a collection of other agents? What are the dynamics of these behaviours, with learning across many trials? Lastly, what does it feel like to act in concert, or in competition, with a room full of people? See more at: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2015-05-06/departmental-colloquium-d… We're looking forward to see you there! (Oktober 6 street 7, room 101) Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu