BEHAVIORAL SOFTWARE LABORATORY--PEARL

行为软件实验室--PEARL

• 批准号: 2332823
• 负责人: Anthony P Zuccolotto
• 金额: $ 10万
• 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 1997-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2332823
• 关键词: behavioral /social science; behavioral /social science research tag; computer data analysis; computer graphics /printing; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; data management; handbook; psychological tests; 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 interactive graphical (and extensible) environment requiring little or no programming skills. This new lingua franca will include these six components: 1) a graphical design environment based on a factor table, 2) user-accessible Visual Basic, 3) a multi-threaded real- time engine, 4) a Programmer's Toolkit for building plug-in extensions, 5) a data analysis translation system, and 6) a subject management system. This project involves the synthesis of the two systems currently in widest use in behavioral research, MEL Professional and PsyScope. It will have a rapid and widespread impact on the estimated 4000 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 many areas including: psychology, sociology, education, human factors, medical evaluation and business decision making. It is used for basic research and applied research in human assessment, monitoring drug effects, human factors design personnel & medical assessment, advertising & communication effectiveness in a growing market.

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 复杂的情况下，学生和研究人员发现他们必须投入数百 几个小时从头开始规划新的实验。我们建议开发 一个在两大计算机平台上运行的强大的新环境 用于行为研究（Intel/Windows 和 Macintosh），这将 允许行为研究人员构建、执行和分析结果 来自交互式图形（和可扩展）环境中的实验 需要很少或不需要编程技能。这种新的通用语言将 包括这六个组成部分： 1）基于图形设计环境 因子表，2) 用户可访问的 Visual Basic，3) 多线程实时 时间引擎，4) 用于构建插件扩展的程序员工具包，5) 数据分析翻译系统，以及6)主题管理系统。 该项目涉及目前最广泛应用的两个系统的综合 用于行为研究、MEL Professional 和 PsyScope。它将有一个 对当前估计 4000 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用于 大学、商业实验室和医院进行研究和 评估许多领域，包括：心理学、社会学、教育学、 人为因素、医学评估和商业决策。它被用来 用于人类评估、监测方面的基础研究和应用研究 药物效应、人为因素设计人员及医疗评估、 在不断增长的市场中广告和传播的有效性。