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1. AI Lunch -- Andrew Mao (MSR) -- May 9 (Adams Wei Yu)<br>
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Dear faculty and students,<br>
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We look forward to seeing you Next Tuesday, May 9, at noon in NSH 3305 for<br>
AI lunch. To learn more about the seminar and lunch, please visit the AI<br>
Lunch webpage <<a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~<wbr>aiseminar/</a>>.<br>
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On Tuesday, Andrew Mao <<a href="http://www.andrewmao.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.andrewmao.net/</a>> will give a talk :<br>
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Title: Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab<br>
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Abstract:<br>
For decades, physical behavioral labs have been a primary, yet limited,<br>
method for controlled experimental studies of human behavior. Now,<br>
software-based "virtual labs" on the Internet allow for studies of<br>
increasing complexity, size, and scope. In this talk, I highlight the<br>
potential of virtual lab experiments for studying social interaction and<br>
coordination. First, I present a study of cooperation in a social dilemma<br>
over a month of real time, using crowdsourcing participants to overcome the<br>
time constraints of behavioral labs. Our study of about 100 participants<br>
over 20 consecutive weekdays finds that a group of resilient altruists<br>
sustain a high level of cooperation across the entire population. We also<br>
explore collective intelligence and digital teamwork in "crisis mapping",<br>
where digital volunteers organize to assess and pinpoint damage in the<br>
aftermath of humanitarian crises. By simulating a crisis mapping scenario<br>
to study self-organization in teams of varying size, and find a tradeoff<br>
between individual effort in small groups and collective coordination in<br>
larger teams. Together, our work motivates the potential of controlled,<br>
highly instrumented studies of social interaction; the importance of<br>
behavioral experiments on longer timescales; and how open-source software<br>
both can speed up the iteration and improve the reproducibility of<br>
experimental work.<br>
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This talk is based on joint work with Lili Dworkin, Winter Mason, Siddharth<br>
Suri, and Duncan Watts.<br>
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Bio:<br>
Andrew Mao is currently a postdoc at Microsoft Research in NYC, where his<br>
research focuses on experimental studies of collective behavior using<br>
Internet participants by combining approaches from social and computer<br>
science. Andrew is especially interested in expanding the boundaries of<br>
experimental methods, and his work has appeared in interdisciplinary<br>
journals including Nature Communications and PLoS ONE as well as computer<br>
science conferences such as AAAI, EC, and HCOMP. He has also designed<br>
TurkServer (<a href="http://turkserver.readthedocs.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://turkserver.<wbr>readthedocs.io/</a>), an open-source platform for<br>
real-time, interactive, web-based behavioral experiments, to share these<br>
methods with other researchers. He received his PhD from Harvard University<br>
in 2015.<br>
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