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welcome to our study!

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IMPORTANT! This study can ONLY run on a desktop/laptop

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In this study you will communicate with robots using symbols
Please try to use as few symbols as possible
In the end of the session we will ask you a few unrelated demographic questions
The study is expected to take 20 minutes
Thanks for participating!

Informed Consent By answering the following questions, you are participating in a study performed by [redacted]. Your participation in this research is voluntary. You may decline to answer any or all of the following questions. You may decline further participation, at any time, without adverse consequences. Your anonymity is assured; the researchers who have requested your participation will not receive any personal identifying information about you. By clicking 'I AGREE' you indicate your consent to participate in this study.

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Instructions

### Two robots: the WHITE robot and the BLUE robot, have visited us from outer space. They are excited to communicate with us.

### The robots think differently, but both communicate by building 7x7 grid patterns. For example:

### Your task is to get robots to guess these patterns, by showing them an incomplete grid.

### Pick a symbol, its color, and place it on your grid. If you make a mistake, click on the symbol again to remove it.

### There are 3 symbols: chicken, pig, and pebble. There are 3 colors: red, green, and blue. Pebbles are always white.

### Every time you add a new symbol, the robots will try to guess the complete pattern based the symbols so far.

### Your task is to help a robot guess your pattern, while using as few symbols as possible.

### Next we will ask a few questions to check your understanding of the instructions

### In this study my task is to:

Put lots of symbols on the grid as fast as possible
Systematically replicate my pattern by filling all locations on my grid
Choose a few strategically placed symbols to guide the robot's guess
Place the symbols at random to try my luck with the robots

### How many symbols should I use to communicate my pattern:

It does not matter
The fewer the better
The more the better
Exactly 49 symbols

### The robots communicate by:

They try to copy my grid, but make random mistakes
They try to guess my pattern based on the symbols they have seen
The instructions did not specify this
They send Morse code over short-frequencey radio waves