polina-tsvilodub/mental-rotation-task

Departure Point

This repository contains a minimal example of a _babe experiment. It can be used as a quick-start departure point when programming a new _babe experiment from scratch.

Online demo

You can have a look at the experiment here

How to set up an experiment with _babe (quick start quide)

Obtaining the departure point

1. install npm by following these instructions
2. download or clone this github repository: https://github.com/babe-project/departure-point
   • e.g. type git clone https://github.com/babe-project/departure-point.git
3. change the folder name departure-point to whatever you like
   • let's say you call is my-exp, e.g. by typing mv departure-point my-exp
4. go to your folder my-exp, e.g., by typing cd my-exp
5. now type npm install; this will download the Javascript packages with the most current version of _babe
6. you can have a look at the example experiment by opening the file index.html now
7. you can now start editing to create your own experiment

Changing the departure point to your own experiment

• You can find more general explanations of the elements relevant for setting up a _babe experiment here

• Usually, you might just want to manipulate the following files:

  • 01_custom_functions.js :: (optional) contains custom functions, variables and hooks (e.g. a global coin flip)
  • 02_custom_views_templates.js :: (optional) contains user-defined special-purpose view templates (only needed, if the provided view templates are not enough for your experiment)
  • 03_trials.js :: (optional) contains the data of different trials of a task (e.g., names of pictures, test sentences, questions, etc.)
  • 04_views.js :: defines the different kinds of tasks, or, more generally, anything users will engage with on the screen
  • 05_main.js :: contains the experiment structure and general information about deployment

• The numbering of the files is important, you can use the functions defined in 01 in 04, but you can't use some variable from 05 in 02