2021 Nov: Building experiments with OpenSesame
Practical information
Host: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Location: online
Dates: November 10th, 17th, and 24th 2021, 13:00 – 17:00
Presenter: Sebastiaan Mathôt
Description
In this three-day, hands-on, online workshop, you will learn how to implement psychological experiments with the open-source software OpenSesame. You will learn how to run experiments online as well as in a traditional laboratory set-up, and about the limitations and advantages of both approaches. You will also learn how to include eye tracking in laboratory-based experiments. Finally, using the skills that you will learn during the workshop, you will design and implement an experiment for your own research.
Please install OpenSesame on your computer before the workshop. You can download OpenSesame for free from https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/. No prior experience with OpenSesame, Python, or JavaScript is required.
I’m looking forward to meeting you all!
Sebastiaan
Day 1 - November 10th 2021 - Introduction
13:00 – 14:30: Introduction to OpenSesame. A general introduction to the software OpenSesame, followed by a hands-on tutorial in which you will learn the basic concepts of the software.
Break
15:00 – 16:00: Introduction to OpenSesame (continued).
16:00 – 17:00: Free time to develop your own experiment. What kind of experiment would you like to build for your own research? You will draft a design for your own experiment, which you will implement during the next two days.
Day 2 - November 17th 2021 - Online experiments
13:00 – 14:30: Building an online time-reproduction task. We will start this session with a general introduction to online experiments. This is followed by a hands-on tutorial in which you will implement a time-reproduction task that is suitable for running online.
Break
15:00 – 17:00: Using mindprobe.eu (a JATOS server) to run experiments online. In this session, you will learn how to use mindprobe.eu, which is a free server that runs the open-source software JATOS, to actually run an experiment online. A mindprobe.eu account will be provided to each participant.
16:00 – 17:00: Free time to develop your own experiment. During this session, you will continue to work on your own experiment.
Day 3 - November 24th 2021 - Eye-tracking experiments
13:00 – 14:30: Building a self-paced reading task with eye-tracking. We will start this session with a general introduction to eye tracking. This is followed by a hands-on tutorial in which you will implement a self-paced reading task with basic eye tracking. We will focus on using the EyeLink, which is a specific eye tracker. However, concepts and techniques are largely also applicable to other eye trackers.
Break
15:00 – 17:00: Gaze-contingent eye-tracking. You will learn how to implement experiments that react to the eye movements of the participant, that is, gaze-contingent experiments.
16:00 – 17:00: Free time to develop your own experiment. During this session, you will continue to work on your own experiment.
17:00 – 17:30: Q&A. We will close the workshop with time for questions and remarks.
Registration
The workshop will be held online via Zoom.
You can register for the workshop by sending an email to nicole.plaas@leuphana.de until November 8th.
The workshop is open for all faculty, postdocs, PhD-students, Master students and Bachelor students from Leuphana University. We have up to 25 slots, which will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis.
If you have successfully registered, you will get a Zoom-Link to participate in the three workshop sessions on November 9th, 2021.