Two contestants play a prisoner’s dilemma game in “Friend or Foe?” where $5000 is at stake.
[Video] [Info]
Exercise: Watch the video and try to guess if Kevin and Ben will cooperate or not.
Note that there are some papers on game theory that use game shows as experiment data.
Archive for February, 2009
Serious roleplay
Posted in Note, tagged identity, milgram, power of the situation, prison experiment, roleplay, stanford on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stanford Prison Experiment 1971 [Video] [Info] [Presentation by the researcher]
(Re-enacted in 2003 [Video] [Info])
“I began to feel that I was losing my identity, that the person that I called “Clay,” the person who put me in this place, the person who volunteered to go into this prison — because it was a prison to me; [...]
The Where
Posted in Note, tagged alternate reality game, arg, geotagging, gps on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the mobile communication devices (read it “cellular phones”) combine GPS technologies with social networking applications, the location information can be incorporated into shared content. For example, your status entries or blog posts can correspond to a position on the map, or even a trail (a longer one if you are on a vehicle). There [...]
The Business Card
Posted in Note, tagged business card, internet, networking, traditional on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How were people networking socially when there was no internet?
Let’s remember this old traditional tool of networking: The business card.
History of business cards
And a recent invention:
Web-enabled business card
