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== Details ==
{{Project Description
|supervisor=[http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/people/sufian_hameed Sufian Hameed]
|duration= 6 months
|type= Bachelor Thesis
|status= In progress (Alexander Wolf)
}}

== Description ==
Altruism, trust or incentive studies are very related to what is happening in the field of behavior economy. People in that research field usually use games (popular prisoner's dilemma, dictator game) to test and observe the behaviors  of the participants when they encountering different choices. But these kind of games are very limited and artificial and many of the conclusion are very unreliable, for example from the dictator game, one may observe that a lot of participants are willing to share their money with their partners, but we cannot draw the conclusion that people are altruistic from it. The reason is that usually you recruit students to participate in the game  (usually happened in academic research), and under your supervision/observation (you are the professor), the students will tend to behave nicely. 

Using the DTN data forwarding (whether someone will forward data for others), we can explore the real altruistic/selfish behavior of the people. During this thesis we will use [http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~kzhu/goose.html Goose] as the experimental platform to evaluate the altruistic nature of smart phone users.

== Required Skills==
* High motivation and ability to work independently and capability to learn quickly new concepts.
* Basic understanding of computer networking
* Good programming skills

== Initial Reading ==

*[http://www.nber.org/papers/w15701 So you want to run an experiment, now what? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design]
*[http://rps-chicago.com/papers/101-25264884.pdf What do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World]
*[http://www.rps-chicago.com/papers/102-25784084.pdf On the Interpretation of Giving in Dictator Games]