ACTIVITY MONITOR - Vanderbilt Kennedy Center

MED ASSOCIATES INC. ACTIVITY MONITOR
CHAPTER 3
Menu Options
To run the Activity Monitor, select the Activity Monitor program group and double click on
the Activity Monitor icon. The main Activity Monitor screen appears with a copyright
screen that disappears after a few seconds (Figure 3-1).
Figure 3-1 - Activity Monitor Copyright Screen
The main Activity window is now displayed. This window is blank. There is a menu
displayed across the top of the window with all the software functions that are accessible
within this blank window.
File Menu Options
Preferences
Select File | Preferences to setup the configuration file to match the system and
the particular experiments. Parameters do not need to be entered every time an
experiment is run. The default settings are user-defined and are determined the
very first time that the Activity Monitor software is run.
The filename.CFG file controls how the software acquires the data, from the
system-sampling rate to where the raw data files are to be located. The raw data
is compressed in a filename.ZIP file automatically. Within this ZIP file are the
raw binary data files that are named according to the date on which they were
created (mmddyyyyA0 - Z99, i.e. 01012003.A0 (January 1, 2003), and are linked
to their appropriate subjects’ data file. These are the files used by the system for
playback and analysis. The settings in the Preferences window may be changed
at any time but may change the nature of summary data. Therefore it is not
recommended that these settings be changed in the middle of running an
experiment until this manual has been read. Experiment configuration settings,
however, may not be changed in the middle of an experiment.
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