Software
I finally got around to making this publicly available. It may not be much, and the scripts are certainly not perfect, but a few people have asked me for them, and I'd only be glad if they could be of use to anyone else. I'm licensing them under the GPL v3 for the moment, at least until I have time to look into the pros and cons of the many open-source licences...
If you use the scripts, I'd definitely appreciate if you could drop me a note, as a word of encouragement and so I know they are useful to someone. You may contact me for help, but I may or may not respond, depending on the time I currently have. Feedback, bug reports, feature wishes, are also all very welcome, especially if you include bits of code I can include in future versions ;-)
| Web-Experiments.zip |
PHP scripts for web experiments This is a series PHP scripts which I developed to run web experiments during my PhD thesis. This version is for a naming experiment, but given some PHP and HTML knowledge, they can be easily adapted to do other types of web experiments. I have used them for rating pretests, and other users have adapted them to do sentence completion experiments as well as grammaticality judgements. An experiment consists in the presentation of successive items, such as the one below, taken from a naming pretest in German:
The general idea behind the scripts was developed under Perl, not PHP, by Ruth Kusterer when she was a student assistant at Saarland University during her studies, and the scripts have benefited a lot from feedback from Ulrike Pado, who was one of the first people I passed them on to. |