FAQ Topics
  • Platform
  • Experiment
  • Result
Platform
WHAT IS BIG ATTENTION?
BIG ATTENTION aims to provide a unified and flexible platform for online psychophysical experiments. It is a web-based platform that facilitates customization of experiments and collection of data from participants around the world. Experimenters can create, manage and run the experiments without any programming.
WHAT SKILLS DO I NEED TO USE BIG ATTENTION?
BIG ATTENTION is a GUI-based platform with no requirement of programming skills. What you need is merely configuring pre-defined experimental templates to create your own experiments.
Experiments
HOW DO I GET STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENTER?
Our registration opens to all users. After login, visit the admin page and explore the demo experiments. Within a few minutes, you will be able to use BIG ATTENTION.
HOW DO I GET STARTED AS A PARTICIPANT?
All experiments published on the website are available for your participation. You can select any experiment to participate, either anonymously or with your name.
HOW DO I SET UP A NEW EXPERIMENT?
BIG ATTENTION provides ready-to-use templates and requires minimal technical skills for setting up a new experiment. Basically, there are four steps as follows:
  1. Click "add experiment" and set the experiment name and description.
  2. Configure your experiment, by adding one or more pre-defined templates.
  3. Click each template you selected, and setup the detailed experimental configurations.
  4. Once finishing all configurations, you can click "publish" to publish your new experiment.
WHAT IF I CANNOT FIND THE PROPER TEMPLATE FOR MY EXPERIMENT?
Currently we only provide a few templates that are specifically designed for our interested experiments. Alternatively, you can contact us on your specific request and we will design a template for you.
HOW CAN I MODIFY AN EXISTING EXPERIMENT?
At the experiments page, select your experiment to open the details, and modify in each of the predefined templates. When finishing your modification, click the publish button, and your new modified experiment will be ready to use.
Results
CAN I DOWNLOAD THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS?
You can click "Results" in the administration page, and all the submitted results to be downloaded.
HOW CAN I MONITOR THE EXPERIMENTAL STATUS?
You can go to the "Management" page and see your real-time experimental status.