Running synchronous experiments with people from different populations

[ricke...@gmail.com]

I may have missed this detail from the talks, but how does Empirica (or other platforms) allow large numbers of participants to log in and interact within a synchronized experiment? Are there certain limitations to what's doable with this? For example, do these participants always end up being from the same communities, or is it possible to run synchronous experiment sessions that traverse language barriers and allow participants from different regions to interact with each other? Thanks!

[jkhart...@gmail.com]

I think that in practice, Empirica studies have typically recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. So there's not a lot of linguistic variability there. I think if you wanted to simultaneously translate for participants speaking different languages, you could probably do that with a bunch of programming. I don't imagine that Empirica has that built in, though.