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Breadboard is a software platform for developing and conducting human interaction experiments on networks. It allows researchers to rapidly design experiments using a flexible domain-specific language and provides researchers with immediate access to a diverse pool of online participants.

To cite usage of this software in an academic publication, please use the following:

McKnight, Mark E., and Nicholas A. Christakis. Breadboard. Computer software. Breadboard: Software for Online Social Experiments. Vers. 2. Yale University, 1 May 2016. Web.

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Installation instructions for the following platforms:

Mac OS X Linux Windows

To cite usage of this software in an academic publication, please use the following:

McKnight, Mark E., and Nicholas A. Christakis. Breadboard. Computer software. Breadboard: Software for Online Social Experiments. Vers. 2. Yale University, 1 May 2016. Web.

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Documentation

Documentation, examples and a tutorial can be found in the documentation section of the website.

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Research

A figure from the May 2017 Nature paper

"Locally noisy autonomous agents improve global human coordination in network experiments"

Hirokazu Shirado and Nicholas A. Christakis

Nature (May 18, 2017)

A figure from the November 2015 Sociological Science paper

"Intermediate Levels of Social Fluidity Amplify Economic Growth and Mitigate Economic Inequality in Experimental Social Networks"

Nishi, Shirado, and Christakis

Sociological Science (November 30, 2015)

A figure from the September 2015 Nature paper

"Inequality and Visibility of Wealth in Experimental Social Networks"

Nishi et al

Nature (September 9, 2015)

A figure from the 2014 PNAS paper

"Static Network Structure Can Stabilize Human Cooperation"

Rand et al

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (December, 2014)

A firgure from the 2013 Nature paper

"Quality Versus Quantity of Social Ties in Experimental Cooperative Networks"

Shirado et al

Nature Communications (November, 2013)

A figure from the 2011 PNAS paper

"Dynamic Social Networks Promote Cooperation in Experiments with Humans"

Rand, Arbesman, and Christakis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (November, 2011)

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Yale Institute for Network Science
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Instructions for Mac OS X

Download and install Java Development Kit 8
Unpack the breadboard_v2.3.X.zip archive in a location where you have write privileges
Open Terminal and run breadboard.sh
Launch a web browser and go to http://localhost:9000
For full installation instructions, see the documentation.

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Instructions for Linux

Download and install Java Development Kit 8
Unpack the breadboard_v2.3.X.zip archive in a location where you have write privileges
Open a shell and run breadboard.sh
Launch a web browser and go to http://localhost:9000
For full installation instructions, see the documentation.

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Instructions for Windows

Download and install Java Development Kit 8
Unpack the breadboard_v2.3.X.zip archive in a location where you have write privileges
Open the command line and run breadboard.bat
Launch a web browser and go to http://localhost:9000
For full installation instructions, see the documentation.

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End user license agreement

Copyright (c) 2020 Human Nature Lab

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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