WebExp2 Experimenter's Manual - School of Informatics - University ...

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1 Server startup command and options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2 Server runtime commands. These are initiated by typing the letter followed by return. . . . . . . 17
3 The Timeline hierarchy used in an experiment description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4 Timeline property tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5 Defining individually-named images to use in an experiment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
6 A resource file defining blocks of images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
7 Resources which define additional attributes to override defaults in the timeline sequence. . . . . 27
8 Defining the resources to use in an experiment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
9 Stage property tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10 The names and properties of the available stages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
11 Slide property elements/tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
12 The currently available colour names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
13 Defining the source and target of a variable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
14 Specifying a slide layout, with proportional row and column sizes, alignment and padding. . . . . 36
15 A sample layout split into 3 columns and 3 rows, showing padding and alignment. . . . . . . . . 37
16 Component property tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
17 Available component types and their unique properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
18 Property tags for visual components. All are optional. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
19 A mandatory input component for collecting a participant’s age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
20 An experimenter configuration record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
21 An experiment configuration record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
22 HTML to include the experimental applet in a web page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
23 Applet attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
24 Applet parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
25 Public methods of the client applet, which can be accessed by javascript. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
26 An experiment configuration record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
27 Description of the parameters of a subject file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
28 An example results file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
29 Result elements produced for a Slide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
30 Result elements produced for a text input response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
31 Possible values for the type and input elements of the advancer result. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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