Experiment Generator lets you create simple experiments easily by making relatively simple definitions in an Excel file. Experiment Generator will convert your Excel file, which contains the experiment configuration, into a web page that fully contains the experiment software. This web page is written in HTML and javascript, and is based on the jsPsych platform. The page can be uploaded to any website, run immediately on our website, or run locally on your computer.
To run Experiment Generator, go to this page.
There are 3 simple stages to creating an experiment:
- Define all details of your experiment by creating a configuration file.
- Upload the configuration file.
- Choose whether you want the experiment software to be run immediately, or you’d rather download the generated web page.
Basic features of Experiment Generator
- Show one or more text stimuli in each trial (pictures, sounds, etc. are currently not supported)
- Easily define trial flow (stimuli can appear simultaneously or one after another)
- Multiple trial types, with a different flow for each trial
- Participant can respond in two ways:
- Via the keyboard – one key per trial
- Via the mouse – click one of several response buttons.
- Control stimulus features (font, size, position, and essentially anything configurable in CSS).
- Results are downloaded by the participant as a CSV file.
- The generated experiment can be downloaded as a single HTML file (to upload on your own website), as a zip containing the experiment and jsPsych (to run locally on your computer), or run immediately on this website.
Detailed explanations & documentation
Find here information about:
- Creating an experiment – the configuration file format.
- We will soon add a list of templates for several types of simple experiments.
- The format of the results file.
Copyright
Experiment Generator is protected under the GNU General Public Lincese, version 3.
Experiment Generator is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Experiment Generator is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Copyright 2022 © Dror Dotan, Tel Aviv University.
Citation: Dotan, D. (2022). Simple Experiment Generator. Tel Aviv University.
Supported by the Jacobs Foundation.
Support
Unfortunately, our resources are limited so we cannot guarantee support to this app. Nevertheless, if you find bugs, or if you have suggestions or questions, you’re welcome to contact us at info@mathinklab.org. We will do our best to respond – but no promise made…