BEHAVIORAL SOFTWARE LABORATORY--FROM PEARL TO E-PRIME

行为软件实验室——从 PEARL 到 E-PRIME

• 批准号: 2890904
• 负责人: Anthony P Zuccolotto
• 金额: $ 37.7万
• 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 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2890904
• 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构建和构建实验室的重要工具。 进行行为研究。随着操作系统变得越来越 复杂，学生和研究人员发现他们必须投入数百 花几个小时从头开始设计新的实验。我们建议 开发一个强大的新环境，运行在两台主要计算机上 用于行为研究的平台（Intel/Windows 和 Macintosh），以及 这将使行为研究人员能够构建、进行和分析 以可扩展的交互式图形形式显示实验结果 环境，需要很少或不需要编程技能。这种新语言 franca 将包括：（1）基于 因子表，(2) 用户可访问的 Visual Basic 脚本代码，(3) 多线程实时引擎，(4) 程序员工具包 构建插件扩展，以及（5）数据分析翻译系统。 该项目涉及目前三个系统的综合 在行为研究、MEL 和 PsyScope 中应用最广泛。它将有一个 对当前估计 7000 名用户产生了迅速而广泛的影响 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、商业实验室和医院进行研究和 心理学、社会学、教育学、人为因素、医学评估 评估和商业决策。它用于基础研究 以及赛艇市场在人体评估、监测方面的应用研究 药物效应、人为因素设计、人员和医疗评估、 广告和传播效果。