We are researchers at North Carolina State University. Help participate in research by spending a few minutes or more playing a variation of a popular online game, Scrabble. Playing our game will help us improve the design of games in many areas, including usability, interaction, and artificial intelligence.
In particular, we're really interested in how people make decisions in games. Why do people shuffle? When do they shuffle? Why do people swap? When do they swap? How often do people play optimal words? What are time intervals between words? Do people change their minds after placing words? There are a host of such questions that a simple game like Scrabble can help us with to create believable agents, rather than simply optimal agents.
If you have any questions about the study, please feel free to post them here and I'll do my best to respond. It's difficult to get data on HCI studies in any reasonable way. Participating in studies is good for karma.
Thanks in advance! The game is free to play, you can play as many times as you want, there is no annoying survey or questionnaire, and even playing for a minute or so is useful for us -- even that means that you submit only a single word to the system.
In particular, we're really interested in how people make decisions in games. Why do people shuffle? When do they shuffle? Why do people swap? When do they swap? How often do people play optimal words? What are time intervals between words? Do people change their minds after placing words? There are a host of such questions that a simple game like Scrabble can help us with to create believable agents, rather than simply optimal agents.
If you have any questions about the study, please feel free to post them here and I'll do my best to respond. It's difficult to get data on HCI studies in any reasonable way. Participating in studies is good for karma.
Thanks in advance! The game is free to play, you can play as many times as you want, there is no annoying survey or questionnaire, and even playing for a minute or so is useful for us -- even that means that you submit only a single word to the system.