Assignments

For Wed Sep 23: Learning about the Amazon Mechanical Turk

  • Read these two blog entries:
  • Contest:
    • Sign up for a worker account at the Amazon Mechanical Turk if you don't already have one.
    • Spend exactly one hour trying to make as much money as possible.
      • We'll see who earns the most.
      • Take rough notes on what you did.
  • Email Adam (af@cs.princeton.edu)
    • Three points for discussion from the blogs and your experience.
    • Your notes from Mechanical Turk

For Wed Sep 30:

For Mon Oct 5:

For Wed Oct 7:

  • Be prepared to discuss each proposed experiment for about 10 minutes.

For Mon Oct 12:

For Wed Oct 13:

  • Further discussion of experimental designs.

For Mon Oct 19:

Syllabus

  • Part 1: Readings (Sep-Oct)
  • Part 2: Project Planning (Oct-Nov)
  • Part 3: Pilot Testing (Nov)
  • Part 4: Experiments (Dec)
  • Part 5: Analysis (Dec-Jan)
  • Part 6: Reports (Jan)

This schedule is preliminary and will be filled in as the seminar crystallizes:

Week 1Sep 21,23Part 1: Introduction, case studies
Week 2Sep 28,30Part 1: Case studies (Note religious holiday 9/28 - no class)
Week 3Oct 5,7Part 1: Guidelines for human subjects experiments / IRB
Week 4Oct 12,14Part 1: Games with a purpose
Week 5Oct 19,21Part 1: Experimental planning
Week 6Oct 26,28Part 2: Project proposals and critique
---Nov 2,4FALL BREAK
Week 7Nov 9,11Pilot testing...
Week 8Nov 16,18We'll see...
Week 9Nov 23,25(Note T-day 11/25)
Week 10Nov 30,Dec 2
Week 11Dec 7,9
Week 12Dec 14,16
---January XXFinal presentations

Sample Readings (in no logical order yet)