Team-It: location-based mobile games for multi-agent coordination and negotiation (demonstration)

The multi-agent systems community has made great strides investigating issues such as coordination and negotiation. When addressing human or human-agent behavior, very few approaches have addressed a feature that people are embodied in the real-world and act in geospatial environments. In the past, it has been difficult to perform experiments and collect data for such domains. However, with the spread of mobile technology that can run sophisticated applications and return location-based data, we are now in a position to investigate such questions. Team-It allows researchers to run mobile-games for a variety of location-based experiments for multi-agent coordination and negotiation with real-world movement as well as competitive experiments such as pursuit-evasion games. We will provide a brief description of Team-It , its capabalities, its applications and our plan for the demonstration.