Collecting response times using Amazon Mechanical Turk and Adobe Flash.

ABSTRACT: Crowdsourcing systems like Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) allow data to be collected from a large sample of people in a short amount of time. This use has garnered considerable interest from behavioral scientists. So far, most experiments conducted on AMT have focused on survey-type instruments because of difficulties inherent in running many experimental paradigms over the Internet. This study investigated the viability of presenting stimuli and collecting response times using Adobe Flash to run ActionScript 3 code in conjunction with AMT. First, the timing properties of Adobe Flash were investigated using a phototransistor and two desktop computers running under several conditions mimicking those that may be present in research using AMT. This experiment revealed some strengths and weakn

SUBMITTER: Simcox T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5283577 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature