BEHAVIORAL SOFTWARE LABORATORY--FROM PEARL TO E-PRIME

实验室的微型计算机已经成为构建和 进行行为研究。随着操作系统变得越来越多 复杂，学生和研究人员发现他们必须花费数百 几个小时的时间来从头开始规划新的实验。我们建议 开发在两台主要计算机上运行的功能强大的新环境 行为研究中使用的平台(Intel/Windows和Macintosh)，以及 这将使行为研究人员能够建立、指导和分析 实验结果显示在可扩展的交互式图形中 环境，几乎不需要或根本不需要编程技能。这种新的语言 Franca将包括：(1)基于 因子表，(2)用户可访问的VB脚本代码，(3)a 多线程实时引擎，(4)程序员工具包 构建插件扩展，以及(5)数据分析翻译系统。 该项目涉及目前正在进行的三个系统的综合 在行为研究、MEL和心理范围中使用最广泛。它将有一个 对当前约7000名用户产生了迅速而广泛的影响 系统，并有望成为普遍接受的工具 行为研究。 建议的商业应用： 商业行为研究实验生成器软件正在使用中 在大学、商业实验室和医院进行研究和 心理学、社会学、教育学、人为因素、医学方面的评估 评估和业务决策。它是用于基础研究的 以及在赛艇市场中的应用研究在人体评估、监测 药物效应、人为因素设计、人员和医学评估， 广告和传播效果。

The laboratory microcomputer has become a crucial tool for building and conducting behavioral studies. As operating systems become increasingly complex, students and researchers find that they must devote hundreds of hours to program new experiments from the ground up. We propose to develop a powerful new environment which runs on the two major computer platforms used in behavioral research (Intel/Windows and Macintosh), and which will allow behavioral researchers to build, conduct and analyze the results from experiments in an extensible, interactive graphical environment, requiring little or no programming skills. This new lingua franca will include: (1) a graphical design environment based on a factor table, (2) user-accessible Visual Basic scripting code, (3) a multi-threaded real-time engine, (4) a Programmer's Tool kit for building plug-in extensions, and (5) a data analysis translation system. This project involves the synthesis of the three systems currently in widest use in behavioral research, MEL, and PsyScope. It will have a rapid and widespread impact on the estimated 7000 users of the current systems and is expected to emerge as a universally accepted tool for behavioral research. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Commercial behavioral research experiment generator software is in use in universities, commercial laboratories, and hospitals for research and assessment in psychology, sociology, education, human factors, medical evaluation, and business decision making. It is used for basic research and applied research in rowing markets in human assessment, monitoring drug effects, human factors design, personnel and medical assessment, advertising, and communication effectiveness.