{"pk":28873,"title":"Exploring the space of human exploration using Entropy Mastermind","subtitle":null,"abstract":"What drives people’s exploration in complex scenarios wherethey have to actively acquire information? How do peopleadapt their selection of queries to the environment? We explorethese questions using Entropy Mastermind, a novel variantof the Mastermind code-breaking game, in which participantshave to guess a secret code by making useful queries. Partici-pants solved games more efficiently if the entropy of the gameenvironment was low; moreover, people adapted their initialqueries to the scenario they were in. We also investigatedwhether it would be possible to predict participants’ querieswithin the generalized Sharma-Mittal information-theoreticframework. Although predicting individual queries was dif-ficult, the modeling framework offered important insights onhuman behavior. Entropy Mastermind opens up rich possibili-ties for modeling and behavioral research.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Curiosity; Active Learning; Exploration; Entropy"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bb972t5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Eric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""},{"first_name":"Lara","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bertram","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthias","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hofer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Nelson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Planck Institute for Human Development","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28873/galley/18744/download/"}]}