Helping people make better decisions using optimal gamification

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2075-2080

  Lieder, Falk ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded Rationality; Decision Making; Decision Support; Gamification; Reinforcement Learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENT; BOUNDED RATIONALITY; DECISION SUPPORTS; DECISIONS MAKINGS; GAME ELEMENTS; GAMIFICATION; INCENTIVE STRUCTURE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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