Add informalNameStyle flag.

Author: rasmi

docs/assets/api/schemas.json

@@ -1450,6 +1450,10 @@
               "type": "string"
             }
           ]
+        },
+        "informalNameStyle": {
+          "default": false,
+          "type": "boolean"
         }
       }
     },

frontend/src/components/stages/profile_stage_editor.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import '../../pair-components/textarea';
+import '@material/web/checkbox/checkbox.js';
 import '@material/web/radio/radio';
 
 import {MobxLitElement} from '@adobe/lit-mobx';
@@ -95,6 +96,29 @@ export class ProfileStageEditorComponent extends MobxLitElement {
           ></md-radio>
           <label>🐱 Generate anonymous animal-themed profiles</label>
         </div>
+        ${this.stage.profileType === ProfileType.ANONYMOUS_ANIMAL
+          ? html`
+              <label class="checkbox-wrapper">
+                <md-checkbox
+                  touch-target="wrapper"
+                  ?checked=${this.stage.informalNameStyle}
+                  ?disabled=${!this.experimentEditor.canEditStages}
+                  @click=${() => {
+                    if (!this.stage) return;
+                    this.experimentEditor.updateStage({
+                      ...this.stage,
+                      informalNameStyle: !this.stage.informalNameStyle,
+                    });
+                  }}
+                >
+                </md-checkbox>
+                <span
+                  >Use informal name style (e.g., bear123 instead of Bear
+                  1002)</span
+                >
+              </label>
+            `
+          : nothing}
         <div class="profile-option">
           <md-radio
             name="profile-type"

functions/src/participant.endpoints.ts

@@ -140,8 +140,15 @@ export const createParticipant = onCall(async (request) => {
       ) as ProfileStageConfig | undefined;
       const profileType =
         profileStage?.profileType || ProfileType.ANONYMOUS_ANIMAL;
-
-      setProfile(numParticipants, participantConfig, true, profileType);
+      const informalNameStyle = profileStage?.informalNameStyle ?? false;
+
+      setProfile(
+        numParticipants,
+        participantConfig,
+        true,
+        profileType,
+        informalNameStyle,
+      );
     } else {
       setProfile(numParticipants, participantConfig, false);
     }

scripts/deliberate_lab/types.py

@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ class ProfileStageConfig(BaseModel):
     descriptions: StageTextConfig
     progress: StageProgressConfig
     profileType: ProfileType
+    informalNameStyle: bool | None = False
 
 
 class Strategy(StrEnum):

utils/src/participant.ts

@@ -191,17 +191,27 @@ export function setProfile(
   config: ParticipantProfileExtended,
   setAnonymousProfile = false,
   profileType: ProfileType = ProfileType.ANONYMOUS_ANIMAL,
+  informalNameStyle = false,
 ) {
   const randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);
 
+  // Format name with random number.
+  // Informal style: "bear123" (lowercase, no space)
+  // Default style: "Bear 1002"
+  const formatName = (name: string) => {
+    if (informalNameStyle) {
+      return `${name.toLowerCase()}${randomNumber}`;
+    }
+    return `${name} ${randomNumber}`;
+  };
+
   // Create anonymous profile from a named profile set.
-  // Appends random number to name (e.g., "Bear 1002", "Participant 1002").
   const profileFromSet = (
     profileSet: {name: string; avatar: string}[],
   ): AnonymousProfileMetadata => {
     const {name, avatar} = profileSet[participantNumber % profileSet.length];
     return {
-      name: `${name} ${randomNumber}`,
+      name: formatName(name),
       avatar,
       repeat: Math.floor(participantNumber / profileSet.length),
     };

utils/src/stages/profile_stage.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export enum ProfileType {
 export interface ProfileStageConfig extends BaseStageConfig {
   kind: StageKind.PROFILE;
   profileType: ProfileType;
+  informalNameStyle?: boolean; // e.g., "bear123" instead of "Bear 1002"
 }
 
 // ************************************************************************* //
@@ -39,5 +40,6 @@ export function createProfileStage(
     descriptions: config.descriptions ?? createStageTextConfig(),
     progress: config.progress ?? createStageProgressConfig(),
     profileType: config.profileType ?? ProfileType.DEFAULT,
+    informalNameStyle: config.informalNameStyle ?? false,
   };
 }

utils/src/stages/profile_stage.validation.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export const ProfileStageConfigData = Type.Composite(
           Type.Literal(ProfileType.ANONYMOUS_ANIMAL),
           Type.Literal(ProfileType.ANONYMOUS_PARTICIPANT),
         ]),
+        informalNameStyle: Type.Optional(Type.Boolean({default: false})),
       },
       strict,
     ),