the strategies and tactics of online data collection

THE STRATEGIES & TACTICS OF ONLINE DATA COLLECTION

Dr. Brian J. Spiering

THE

TECHNOLOGY

DON’T

CARE

The Web Browseris The New OS

PARTICIPANTS

LOCATIONTASK

LOCATION

You Will Need:• A Domain

• Hosting

• Website

Useful LanguagesHTML

• What the website says

CSS

• What the website looks like

JavaScript

• What the website does

These are client-side languages

Useful Languages

PHP

• Reading & writing information

JSON

• Storing information

These are server-side languages

Useful Languages

A Scripting Language

• Python

• Shell

• MATLAB

These are automation languages

TASK

Anything that can be put in a web browser

http://onlinepsychologyexperiments.com/demo

Stimuli

Single Training Trial

or

Correct

WrongStimulus & Response

Time

Intertrial Interval

Feedback

SingleTransfer Trial

Stimulus 1 Intertrial Interval

Time

Stimulus 2 Stimulus 3 Stimulus 4& Response

(Stimulus 5& Response)

PARTICIPANTS

AMAZON’S MECHANICAL TURK

TRUST, BUT VERIFY

Initial Selection

PostTask

Early Task

Pre-Task

RESULTS

PARTICIPANTSAmazon.com'sMechanical Turk

LOCATIONOnline

TASKDecision-Making