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The Controlled, Large Online Social Experimentation Platform (CLOSE)

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Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP 2015)

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We present a new platform to do online, social influence experiments – the Controlled, Online Social Experimentation (CLOSE) system. We describe it’s development, potential uses and justification for use. The CLOSE platform can be used to do long term (weeks to months) experiments in which we can manipulate the interaction networks (within the experiment) of a diverse (drawn from Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT)) subject pool.

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  1. Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, USA

    Kiran Lakkaraju, Brenda Medina, Alisa N. Rogers, Derek M. Trumbo, Ann Speed & Jonathan T. McClain

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  1. University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

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  2. Technicolor Research, Los Altos, California, USA

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  3. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Lakkaraju, K., Medina, B., Rogers, A.N., Trumbo, D.M., Speed, A., McClain, J.T. (2015). The Controlled, Large Online Social Experimentation Platform (CLOSE). In: Agarwal, N., Xu, K., Osgood, N. (eds) Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction. SBP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9021. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16268-3_40

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