Cooperation and coordination are desirable behaviors that are fundamental for the harmonious development of society. People need to rely on cooperation with other individuals in many aspects of everyday life, such as teamwork and economic exchange in anonymous markets. However, cooperation may easily fall prey to exploitation by selfish individuals who only care about short-term gain. For cooperation to evolve, specific conditions and mechanisms are required, such as kinship, direct and indirect reciprocity through repeated interactions, or external interventions such as punishment. Here we focus on the influence of the social and spatial structure as a device that may support coordination and cooperative behaviors in a population of mobile players. In these two experimental works we study the behavior of people who play a pure coordination game and a Prisoner's Dilemma game in a spatial environment in which they can move around. Our findings have important implications for policymakers intending to promote specific, desired behaviors in a mobile population.