We use a process-tracing paradigm where people create hierarchical plans. Based on the educational game Lightbot, research participants drag and drop instructions to write programs. Lightbot follows these instructions, with the goal of activating all lights.
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Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18644
Playable demo: https://carlos.correa.me/cocosci-lightbot/
Experiment code: https://github.com/cgc/cocosci-lightbot
Analysis code: https://github.com/cgc/lightbot-grammar-induction
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Animation in first post was inspired by M. C. Escher’s Ascending and Descending and the game Monument Valley.
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