I have only ever worked with Linger so far, which cannot be used over the internet.
I heard about Paradigm, but it seems participants would have to have both Dropbox and Paradigm installed to take part in the experiment. This seems rather inconvenient to me. It should be easily distributable online without participants having to install anything. Does something like that exist?
Also, I am not an expert in coding - so the less coding, the better!
Any recommendations will be highly appreciated!!
I think there are some methodological problems for measuring reaction times and presentation times in online experiment. That's why PsychoPy, e.g., as far as I know has not online version.
So, may be You will have to develop Your own site with JavaScript (:
Thanks for your reply, Vsevolod!
But I came across a number of studies that found that online RT experiments yielded comparable results, e.g.:
Enochson, K., & Culbertson, J. (2015). Collecting Psycholinguistic Response Time Data Using Amazon Mechanical Turk. PloS one, 10(3), 1–17. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116946
Keller, F., Gunasekharan, S., Mayo, N., & Corley, M. (2009). Timing accuracy of web experiments: A case study using the WebExp software package. Behavior research methods, 41(1), 1–21.
All depends on what do You mean by "comparable" results :) I know the fresh article of my friends
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280057912_Online_versus_offline_The_Web_as_a_medium_for_response_time_data_collection
citation
"The results suggest that although the locations (means) of RT distributions are different, other distribution parameters are not."
So, if You want to compare means - it may be difficult for online/offline experiments.
Article Online versus offline: The Web as a medium for response time...
I think you have already answered your own question, e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk, which has been proven to be very reliable in conducting online psycholinguistic experiments.
Thank you, too, for your reply, Matthew.
Unfortunately AMT is not really an option for me. I need native speakers of English, German and Polish. From another paper I found out that most users on AMT are from India and the USA (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ccb/publications/language-demographics-of-mechanical-turk.pdf).
I am looking for a way to generate a link that I can spread via E-Mail and social media that will direct potential participants to the experiment and allow them to do it in their browser.
I am now looking into Ibex Farm. Hopefully, that is what I was looking for, but not sure yet.
Any experience with Ibex or further suggestions are still appreciated.
I recommend remote mode of DMDX program. http://psy1.psych.arizona.edu/~jforster/dmdx/help/dmdxhremotetestingoverview.htm
We have collected data with DMDX remotely and when it was administered by an experimenter, and the results are comparable. I can attest that reaction time data collected by means of remote mode are quite reliable.
People at The Center for Reading Research, Ghent, have a lot of experience with this, running their own mega-studies etc. Check at: http://crr.ugent.be/. Try contacting either Marc Brysbaert, or Emmanuel Keuleers.
Good luck, PM
I am currently doing a research on online reading. I personally like online reading.
I would also recommend DMDX. For download links, tutorials, etc. for DMDX, and other relevant sofware (including questionnaire results from users), see here: https://experimentalfieldlinguistics.wordpress.com/links/software/
There is now an online extensive reading system called xreading.com that has excellent monitoring data for measuring fluency gains--something rather difficult to compare. This would allow students to self-select texts based upon ability and track reading time, words read, and number of online sessions needed to complete a book. There are also comprehension quizzes in the system. I would love to hear what tool you select.
Paul Sevigny
I found these websites:
http://www.readanybook.com/
http://www.readingonline.co.uk/
http://www.chick.com/reading/
http://www.myonlinereading.com/
http://www.readingonline.org/
http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/reading-online-30096.html
Thank you everyone for your replies!
I chose to try and use the Ibex Farm (http://spellout.net/ibexfarm/). So far it seems appropriate for my purposes.
Hi Karin, all,
I have spent my career on developing methodologies and applications for Internet-based research, mainly Internet-based experiments. Check out my publications and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
As part of our endeavour we have created WEXTOR, an online experiment generator. It is available from http://wextor.org
More tools at our iScience portal at http://iscience.eu
Cheers and I wish you a lot of fun and success with Web experimenting!
http://wextor.org
As DMDX was mentioned in this thread, I would also like to point out there is now VisualDMDX: http://visualdmdx.com/ Check it out! :-)
http://visualdmdx.com/
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