BEHAVIORAL SOFTWARE LABORATORY--PEARL

实验室微型计算机已成为一种重要的工具， 进行行为研究随着操作系统变得越来越 复杂，学生和研究人员发现，他们必须投入数百个 从头开始设计新的实验我们建议发展 在两个主要计算机平台上运行的强大的新环境 用于行为研究（Intel/Windows和Macintosh）， 允许行为研究人员建立，进行和分析结果， 从交互式图形（和可扩展）环境中的实验 需要很少或不需要编程技能。这种新的弗兰卡将 包括这六个组件：1）图形设计环境， 因子表，2）用户可访问的Visual Basic，3）多线程的真实的- 时间引擎，4）用于构建插件扩展的程序员工具包，5） 数据分析翻译系统;以及6）主题管理系统。 该项目涉及目前最广泛的两个系统的综合 在行为研究中使用，MEL Professional和PsyScope。它将有一个 对目前估计有4000名用户的迅速和广泛的影响， 系统，并有望成为一个普遍接受的工具， 行为研究 拟定商业应用： 商业行为研究实验生成器软件正在使用中， 大学、商业实验室和医院进行研究， 评估在许多领域，包括：心理学，社会学，教育， 人为因素、医疗评估和商业决策。使用它 用于人类评估、监测的基础研究和应用研究 药物效应、人为因素设计人员和医学评估， 在不断增长的市场中的广告和沟通效果。

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 interactive graphical (and extensible) environment requiring little or no programming skills. This new lingua franca will include these six components: 1) a graphical design environment based on a factor table, 2) user-accessible Visual Basic, 3) a multi-threaded real- time engine, 4) a Programmer's Toolkit for building plug-in extensions, 5) a data analysis translation system, and 6) a subject management system. This project involves the synthesis of the two systems currently in widest use in behavioral research, MEL Professional and PsyScope. It will have a rapid and widespread impact on the estimated 4000 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 many areas including: psychology, sociology, education, human factors, medical evaluation and business decision making. It is used for basic research and applied research in human assessment, monitoring drug effects, human factors design personnel & medical assessment, advertising & communication effectiveness in a growing market.