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One possible interesting topic as a follow up is about evaluation of human altruism, which is very related to social network you studied in the LENS project. And can also use the Goose as experimental platform. So actually we more of less with all the codes ready and just need to change some of the user interfaces and then we can run the experiment. It is a very interesting topic and can have big impact and most important it will not take much time.
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.  


What we are trying to do about testing altruism or trust or incentive etc are very related to what is happening in the field of behaviour economy. People in that research field usually use games (popular prisoners' dilemma, dictator game) to test and observe the behaviours  of the participants when they encountering different choices. But these kind of games are very limited and artificial and I think many of the conclusion are very unreliable, for example from the dictator game, you 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. I think using the DTN data forwarding (whether someone will forward data for others) , we can explore the real altruistic/selfish behavior of the people. If we find out that people are very willing to forward data then it is good for networking conference paper, if we find out that people are not really willing to forward data, we can have a paper to Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization or even to Science.  So overall, I believe we are doing very good and important research.
I think using the DTN data forwarding (whether someone will forward data for others) , we can explore the real altruistic/selfish behavior of the people. If we find out that people are very willing to forward data then it is good for networking conference paper, if we find out that people are not really willing to forward data, we can have a paper to Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization or even to Science.  So overall, I believe we are doing very good and important research.


Regarding experiment design, you may want to have a look at these papers. I can also scan a chapter of a book (superfreakonomics) by (http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/index.html ) I have to send to you, which introduce the problem very well.  
Regarding experiment design, you may want to have a look at these papers. I can also scan a chapter of a book (superfreakonomics) by (http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/index.html ) I have to send to you, which introduce the problem very well.  
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