A browser-based behavioral experiment prototype developed as part of research assistant work studying communication and cooperation between participants.
This experiment implements a cooperative helper-player task where two participants work together to maximize their points.
The Helper has access to hidden information about the value of available boxes and communicates with the Player by highlighting selected boxes. The Player uses these signals to make selections, and both participants receive the resulting points.
The experiment interface includes:
- Participant instructions and comprehension checks
- Practice trials
- Experimental trials
- Interactive task interface
- Confidence ratings
- Data submission workflow through PHP
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- jQuery
- PHP
- HTML5 Canvas API
This repository contains a functional research prototype. The experiment flow, interaction logic, and data collection pipeline were implemented; however, the final study deployment was superseded by a later experimental design.
This prototype was developed during research assistant work on human-computer interaction and behavioral experiments. The experimental paradigm was inspired by research on emergent communication, including Instantaneous Conventions: The Emergence of Flexible Communicative Signals, which investigates how people rapidly establish communicative conventions in cooperative tasks.
Misyak, J. B., Noguchi, T., & Chater, N. (2016). Instantaneous conventions: The emergence of flexible communicative signals. Psychological Science, 27, 1550–1561. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616661199