We worked with the LSA Instructure team to provide a server to host the experiment.
Our team reworked the PsychoPy experiment to run online and added the interactive learning portion. She proposed using the LIONESS platform, which is designed to allow interaction between multiple subjects performing a task. The other subject was then asked to select that image from a set of options based on their partner’s description.Īs it was impossible to conduct in-person experiments at the time due to COVID-19 restrictions, the researcher decided to run the experiment online. During the interactive portion of the experiment, one of the subjects was asked to describe a previously viewed image to their partner in the new language. The subjects completed a training portion within the experiment in order to learn words associated with images, followed by a set of test trials to assess how well they learned the language. Eventually, the researcher decided to extend this experiment to include paired subjects for interactive learning. Her goal was to assess whether the subject had a preferred sentence structure when describing the images. The researcher had previously created a PsychoPy experiment to teach an individual subject a new language and collect the subject’s descriptions of a series of images.
Saved researcher time and effort by investigating, implementing, and managing the hosting platform for the online version of the experiment.
The Research Software Programming team was able to adapt the existing version of the researcher’s experiment to implement an online, multi-subject version using the LIONESS Lab platform. The experiment needed to teach both subjects the words of a new language and then allow the subjects to describe images to their partner using the new language in a web browser. The researcher wanted to use an online platform to run an interactive experiment with two subjects remotely.