Welcome to the COCOBOT Assembly task!

Please read the following information carefully before accepting the HIT. Clicking the button on the landing page will take you to a waiting room. Once another player arrives, you will both be moved to the task room where you can begin the task.

Overview

  • One player teaches another to build a construction on a Target Board by providing instructions in English in a chat window.
  • The second player follows the instructions by picking objects from the Source Board and placing them on the Working Board.
  • Each session includes 3 boards (~20 minutes).
  • Participants who complete all three boards successfully will receive a monitary bonus.
  • Participants who remain idle or disconnect for more than 5 minutes, causing the session to end, and participants who fail to understand the task after practice will not be allowed to participate in further sessions.
  • A session will be shut down after the maximum allotted time, 5 minutes of idleness from one player, or 5 minutes in the waiting room (in the event that no partner is found).

⚠️ NOTE: after completing the third board (or end of time-out if partner does not show or finish the task), you will get a unique ID code and a link to a survey. Please copy the ID code and follow the link. Complete the survey to get your Prolific confirmation token. Remember to copy it and paste it into Prolific in order to get your rewards. This is crucial. ⚠️
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⚠️ Note: Color plays an important role in the task. Participants should be able to distinguish red, green, blue and yellow.
By entering into the chatroom you confirm your permission for your data to be logged and used for research purposes. The data that is logged is stored on a server at the University of Potsdam. Any experiment-relevant information, such as what you type in the chat is logged with timestamp information. No information that can identify you personally is logged. Please refrain from entering personal details, as well as experiment-irrelevant information in the chat and respect other users. Please be aware that you will be paired with another anonymous participant -- as we are looking for dialogues-- and we have no control over what they might do. Please behave courteously, and demand this from your partner as well. Responsable party: Department of Linguistics University of Potsdam