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Exploring our ideas about human nature
through games
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through games
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#Drawmetheconsumer
#circlecounting
#gifting
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Experts
Copying
PeersGuesswork
Considered
choice
A simple map
(rooted in data
patterns)
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Adapted from Bentley Earls O’Brien
“I’ll have what she’s having”
MIT Press 2011
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rapid turnover of popularity
short-tail distribution
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long-tail plot
Adapted from Bentley Earls O’Brien
“I’ll have what she’s having” MIT Press 2011
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slow turnover
of popularity
rapid turnover
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Using patterns to
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Signature patterns in data
Diffusion through a population
by individuals discovering the
superior qualities of the product
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Workshop: Using Games to Explore Human Behavior by Mark Earls of I'll Have What She's Having and Herd - Presented at the Insight Innovation eXchange North America 2013

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Good morning - delighted to be here Share with you a way of mapping human behaviour that seems to work well for lots of different behaviour change tasks: commercial-marketing, NGO/Charity and public policy. Not a panacea but we ’ ve found it really helps make the most of behaviour change
  • #31 News story and then social diffusion If you want to spread your thing, your idea, your brand, you need to worry less about the LH and more about the RH
  • #32 We ’ re not really interested in “ physics ” descriptions - precise, detailed (not least because the detail is elusive and slippery) Instead characterising behaviours in terms of social influence (Lo -Hi) And Directedness (lo-hi)