Wireless Laboratory for Interpersonal Cognition

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下。Bertram Malle和John Orbell将在俄勒冈大学希尔中心建立一个无线实验室，用于研究人际认知。通过该合同提供的仪器将用于允许受试者之间的无线通信，并记录和监控受试者的行为。通信系统将由市售材料组装，因为现成的系统相当昂贵且范围有限。还将从商业来源组装和安装一套视听系统，包括4台照相机、2台电脑控制的录象机和3台20英寸彩色监视器。拟建的设施将由来自心理学、经济学、政治学、社会学和人类学系的11名研究人员使用，个人研究项目涉及社会心理学（意向性和心理理论、移情和换位思考、个性、刻板印象）和决策和博弈论（囚犯困境任务、陪审团集体决策、群体结构的出现）等广泛的主题。该设备将主要用于一套具有内置音频和视频功能的房间，并配有便携式信息设备，以提供与实验对象的双向通信。便携式信息设备既用于受试者在实验过程中输入反应或判断，也用于实验者向受试者提供反馈和信息。该设备将为社会心理学中更为典型的传统纸笔方法提供一个显著的进步，并有望为其他实验室提供一个原型。

With National Science Foundation support Drs. Bertram Malle and John Orbell will develop a wireless laboratory for the study of interpersonal cognition at the Hill Center, University of Oregon. The instrumentation provided through this award will be used to permit wireless communication among subjects and to record and monitor the subjects' behavior. The communication system will be assembled from commercially available material as off-the-shelf systems are considerably more expensive and limited in range. An audio-visual system will also be assembled and installed from commercial sources and includes four cameras, two computer-controlled video recorders and three 20 inch color monitors. The proposed facility will be used by 11 researchers from the psychology, economics, political science, sociology and anthropology departments and the individual research projects address a wide group of topics from social psychology (intentionality and theory of mind, empathy and perspective-taking, personality, stereotyping) and decision and game theory (prisoner's dilemma task, collective decision making in juries, emergence of structure in groups.) The equipment will primarily be used in a suite of rooms with built-in audio and video capabilities, and with portable information devices to provide two-way communication with the experimental subjects. The portable information devices serve both for the subjects to enter responses or judgments during the experimental sessions, and for the experimenters to provide feedback and information to the subjects. The equipment will provide a significant advance over the traditional pen and paper methods more typical of social psychology and hopefully will provide a prototype for other laboratories.