BEHAVIORAL SOFTWARE LABORATORY--FROM PEARL TO E-PRIME

行为软件实验室——从 PEARL 到 E-PRIME

• 批准号: 2714278
• 负责人: Anthony P Zuccolotto
• 金额: $ 37.21万
• 依托单位: PSYCHOLOGY SOFTWARE TOOLS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2000-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2714278
• 关键词: behavior test; behavioral /social science; behavioral /social science research tag; computer data analysis; computer graphics /printing; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; data management; handbook; mental disorder diagnosis; psychological tests; psychometrics; statistics /biometry

The laboratory microcomputer has become a crucial tool for building and conducting behavioral studies. As operating systems become increasingly complex, students and researchers find that they must devote hundreds of hours to program new experiments from the ground up. We propose to develop a powerful new environment which runs on the two major computer platforms used in behavioral research (Intel/Windows and Macintosh), and which will allow behavioral researchers to build, conduct and analyze the results from experiments in an extensible, interactive graphical environment, requiring little or no programming skills. This new lingua franca will include: (1) a graphical design environment based on a factor table, (2) user-accessible Visual Basic scripting code, (3) a multi-threaded real-time engine, (4) a Programmer's Tool kit for building plug-in extensions, and (5) a data analysis translation system. This project involves the synthesis of the three systems currently in widest use in behavioral research, MEL, and PsyScope. It will have a rapid and widespread impact on the estimated 7000 users of the current systems and is expected to emerge as a universally accepted tool for behavioral research. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Commercial behavioral research experiment generator software is in use in universities, commercial laboratories, and hospitals for research and assessment in psychology, sociology, education, human factors, medical evaluation, and business decision making. It is used for basic research and applied research in rowing markets in human assessment, monitoring drug effects, human factors design, personnel and medical assessment, advertising, and communication effectiveness.

实验室微型计算机已成为建筑和 进行行为研究。随着操作系统越来越多 复杂的学生和研究人员发现他们必须投入数百个 从头开始编程新实验的小时。我们建议 开发一个强大的新环境，该环境在两台主要计算机上运行 行为研究（Intel/Windows和Macintosh）中使用的平台，以及 这将使行为研究人员能够建立，进行和分析 在可扩展的交互式图形中实验的结果 环境，几乎不需要编程技能。这个新的语言 Franca将包括：（1）基于A的图形设计环境 因素表，（2）可访问的视觉基本脚本代码，（3）a 多线程实时引擎，（4）程序员的工具套件 构建插入式扩展程序，以及（5）数据分析翻译系统。 该项目涉及当前三个系统的合成 在行为研究，MEL和PSYSCOPE中的使用最广泛。它将有一个 快速而广泛地影响了当前的7000个用户 系统并有望成为普遍接受的工具 行为研究。 拟议的商业应用： 商业行为研究实验生成器软件正在使用 在大学，商业实验室和医院，用于研究 心理学，社会学，教育，人为因素，医学评估 评估和业务决策。它用于基础研究 并在人类评估中进行划船市场的应用研究，监测 药物影响，人为因素设计，人员和医疗评估， 广告和沟通有效性。