Welcome to Experimenter’s documentation!

NOTE: This documentation is a work in progress

Experimenter is a platform for designing and administering experiments. It is built on top of JamDB and Ember.js, and is developed by the Center for Open Science.

Contents:

• Using the staging server to try your experiments
  • A sandbox environment
  • Getting access
• Building an Experiment
  • Prerequisites
  • Creating a new study and setting study details
  • Experiment structure
    • Nested randomizers
  • Testing your study
• Experiment data
  • Accessing experiment data
  • Structure of session data
  • Sessions and expData in detail
• Glossary of Experimental Components
  • general patterns
    • text-blocks
    • remote-resources
  • exp-audioplayer
    • example
    • parameters
    • data
  • exp-consent
    • example
    • parameters
    • data
  • exp-info
    • example
    • parameters
    • data
  • exp-survey
    • example
    • parameters
    • data
  • exp-video-config
    • example
    • parameters
    • data
  • exp-video-consent
    • example
    • parameters
    • data
  • exp-video-preview
    • parameters
    • data
• Preparing your stimuli
  • Audio and video files
  • File formats
  • Directory structure
• Development: Installation
  • Ember Dependencies
  • Other Dependencies
  • Installation
    • exp-addons Submodule
    • Javascript Dependencies
    • Add a .env file
    • Run the Ember server
    • Bootstrapping in Example Data
• Development: Custom Frames
  • Overview
  • Getting Started
    • A Simple Example
    • Building out the Example
  • Tips and tricks
    • Tips for adding styles
    • When should I use actions vs functions?
• Development: Mixins of premade functionality
  • FullScreen
  • MediaReload
  • VideoPause
  • VideoRecord
• Development: Randomization
  • Overview of ‘choice’ structure
  • Making your own
• How to capture video in an experiment
  • Troubleshooting
• Architecture
  • JamDB as a Backend