@inproceedings{4d6f9e8ab94844219c43977536e3a60a,
title = "Optimally Designing Games for Cognitive Science Research",
abstract = "Collecting cognitive science data using games has the potential to be a powerful tool for recruiting participants and increasing their motivation. However, designing games that provide useful data is a difficult task that often requires significant trial and error. In this work, we consider how to apply ideas from optimal experiment design to designing games for cognitive science experiments. We use Markov decision processes to model players{\textquoteright} actions within a game, and then make inferences about the parameters of a cognitive model from these actions. We present a general framework for finding games with high expected information gain based on this approach. We apply this framework to Boolean concept learning, inferring the difficulty of Boolean concepts from participants{\textquoteright} behavior. We show that using games with higher expected information gain allows us to make this inference more efficiently.",
keywords = "computer games, concept learning, Markov decision process, optimal experiment design",
author = "Rafferty, {Anna N.} and Matei Zaharia and Griffiths, {Thomas L.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements. This work was supported by a DoD NDSEG Fellowship to ANR, a Google Ph.D. Fellowship to MZ, and NSF grant number IIS-0845410 to TLG. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} CogSci 2012.All rights reserved.; 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World, CogSci 2012 ; Conference date: 01-08-2012 Through 04-08-2012",
year = "2012",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "893--898",
editor = "Naomi Miyake and David Peebles and Cooper, {Richard P.}",
booktitle = "Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012",
}