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Have you ever been deterred by the idea of creating a new study from scratch? The big empty space in trial templates and procedure seemed like a big daunting void that drains the creativity and energy out of you? Well, there's no need to be afraid anymore! The FindingFive team is delighted to announce the new study templates feature! Take a look at this beautiful screenshot:


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Yes, that's right - you can now create a new study based on a couple of built-in templates that are already fully functional FindingFive studies. You will get the trial templates, the procedure, and even a basic set of stimuli and responses to get you started. Isn't that nice?

At the current moment, there are only three study templates: the FindingFive's official Crash Course, a mouse tracking study, and a conditional branching study. We will be adding new studies to the list over time. So stay tuned and check often!]]>
Have you ever been deterred by the idea of creating a new study from scratch? The big empty space in trial templates and procedure seemed like a big daunting void that drains the creativity and energy out of you? Well, there's no need to be afraid anymore! The FindingFive team is delighted to announce the new study templates feature! Take a look at this beautiful screenshot:


  Screenshot 2021-04-30 10.36.39.png (Size: 106.98 KB / Downloads: 31)

Yes, that's right - you can now create a new study based on a couple of built-in templates that are already fully functional FindingFive studies. You will get the trial templates, the procedure, and even a basic set of stimuli and responses to get you started. Isn't that nice?

At the current moment, there are only three study templates: the FindingFive's official Crash Course, a mouse tracking study, and a conditional branching study. We will be adding new studies to the list over time. So stay tuned and check often!]]> http://discuss.findingfive.com/showthread.php?tid=89 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:16:53 +0000 Ting]]> http://discuss.findingfive.com/showthread.php?tid=89
A top priority of FindingFive is to ensure the consistency of participant data: two participants taking similar actions on a trial should lead to similar participant data as recorded by FindingFive (for your statistical power!). This is a somewhat novel challenge in online studies: in the good old days when participants were invited to the lab in person, we as researchers could control the experimentation equipment. When studies are conducted over the web, however, participants' unique computer hardware specs, software versions, and Internet speed can all be very different. These differences introduce potential sources for the inconsistencies in the participant data collected in an experiment.

What's new
In the most recent update to FindingFive that became effective on Tuesday 3/30/2021, we have further improved the consistency of participant data within the same study session. This is achieved by ensuring that participants in the same study session will always experience the study the same way. Technically, when a researcher launches a new session, FindingFive now "freezes" the behavior of the FindingFive Grammar at the time of the session's launch, for this particular session. Any further updates to the FindingFive Grammar will not affect how the launched session will behave. 

No action required
There's no action required to take advantage of this new feature. This new feature is invisible to either researchers or participants. Researchers will launch a new session as usual, and the new mechanism automatically kicks in.

Potential downside
As the FindingFive Grammar system is now frozen for an active session, it also means that any bug fixes to the Grammar system will not retroactively apply to active sessions. Please preview your study thoroughly and carefully before launching a session to make sure your study runs as expected.

If your active session contains undesirable behavior after launching, FindingFive will not able to fix it for your active session anymore. You will now need to stop it and launch another session even after we fix the bug. Bug fixes will no longer be applied to active sessions.

Comments?
Please leave a message below to let us know your thoughts and comments!]]>
A top priority of FindingFive is to ensure the consistency of participant data: two participants taking similar actions on a trial should lead to similar participant data as recorded by FindingFive (for your statistical power!). This is a somewhat novel challenge in online studies: in the good old days when participants were invited to the lab in person, we as researchers could control the experimentation equipment. When studies are conducted over the web, however, participants' unique computer hardware specs, software versions, and Internet speed can all be very different. These differences introduce potential sources for the inconsistencies in the participant data collected in an experiment.

What's new
In the most recent update to FindingFive that became effective on Tuesday 3/30/2021, we have further improved the consistency of participant data within the same study session. This is achieved by ensuring that participants in the same study session will always experience the study the same way. Technically, when a researcher launches a new session, FindingFive now "freezes" the behavior of the FindingFive Grammar at the time of the session's launch, for this particular session. Any further updates to the FindingFive Grammar will not affect how the launched session will behave. 

No action required
There's no action required to take advantage of this new feature. This new feature is invisible to either researchers or participants. Researchers will launch a new session as usual, and the new mechanism automatically kicks in.

Potential downside
As the FindingFive Grammar system is now frozen for an active session, it also means that any bug fixes to the Grammar system will not retroactively apply to active sessions. Please preview your study thoroughly and carefully before launching a session to make sure your study runs as expected.

If your active session contains undesirable behavior after launching, FindingFive will not able to fix it for your active session anymore. You will now need to stop it and launch another session even after we fix the bug. Bug fixes will no longer be applied to active sessions.

Comments?
Please leave a message below to let us know your thoughts and comments!]]> http://discuss.findingfive.com/showthread.php?tid=47 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:18:46 +0000 Lucy - FF Researcher Support]]> http://discuss.findingfive.com/showthread.php?tid=47 Paying Participants Made Easier

Together with building a participant pool, we have now also opened our payment system for a public beta test! As a researcher, you can now pay participants directly on FindingFive, without having to arrange your own payments. We charge a low flat fee of 15%, and participants will get paid the very next day. Read our blog post here to learn more.]]> Paying Participants Made Easier

Together with building a participant pool, we have now also opened our payment system for a public beta test! As a researcher, you can now pay participants directly on FindingFive, without having to arrange your own payments. We charge a low flat fee of 15%, and participants will get paid the very next day. Read our blog post here to learn more.]]>