The Cultural Evolution of Human Communication Systems in Different Sized Populations: Usability Trumps Learnability
Figure 2
Sign refinement and alignment for the item Museum among members of an 8-Person group playing the Pictionary-like task (sampled from the corpus collected by [21]).
Participants interact with each of the other members of their group (Partner 1–7). Drawings are sampled from Game 1 and Game 2 for each interacting pair (Game 1 drawings are presented on the left for each Pair). Shading is used to discriminate the different participant pairings.