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August
23, 2011
MouseTracker can now interface with external environments
(e.g., MATLAB) for complex tasks
A successfully interfaced experiment between MouseTracker and
MATLAB is now available (in the sample folder). MATLAB controls
what stimuli and response options are available on a
trial-by-trial basis, to allow past subjects' responses to guide
future trials. The interface is very simple and works over the
Windows clipboard. The example MATLAB script is available to be
easily adapted for your own needs, should you need to run more
complex tasks that require on-line control. Available in version
2.62 and up.
April 1,
2011
Tutorial on mouse-tracking and the MouseTracker software
at CogSci 2011
We'll be hosting a tutorial on mouse-tracking and the
MouseTracker software at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society on July 2011. See
here
for more information.
October 6,
2010
Sample data set now available
If you'd like a sample data set to work with in Analyzer,
check out the Support/FAQ section.
September 29,
2010
Are you a Tufts or Boston-area undergraduate
interested in scientific software development?
The
IPC Lab at Tufts University's Department of Psychology
is seeking an individual who has programming experience in
Visual Basic 6 and is interested in helping with the continued
development and maintenance of a
software package used for scientific research. The
software is used to design, run, and analyze hand-tracking
experiments in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience,
and related fields. It is a neat package and has a rapidly
growing user base of researchers (currently 400+) in many
labs across the world.
You would work in an exciting research lab at Tufts, and the
internship would be fun and flexible. You would gain
invaluable knowledge and skills both in software development
as well as in scientific research. The internship would give
you the opportunity to make unique and creative
contributions of your own to an emerging research tool and
methodology being used worldwide. It would provide
compelling experience for applying to graduate,
professional, or medical schools as well as private-sector
jobs after college.
Currently, we can offer course credit as a directed study
through either the Department of Computer Science or
Department of Psychology at Tufts for the internship.
However, if you are not a Tufts computer science or
psychology major and are interested in volunteering, we
certainly welcome your interest. At least two consecutive
semesters is preferred. You would be working closely with
Jon
Freeman, a PhD Candidate in Psychology,
Nalini Ambady, Professor of Psychology and Neubauer
Faculty Fellow, and
Judith Stafford, Research Assistant Professor of
Computer Science.
The internship would involve roughly 5-15 hours per week,
depending on your availability, and
is flexible. Pending interest and grant funding decisions,
there is the potential to turn this into a paid position in
the coming year or full-time salaried position after
graduating.
You would be:
- Developing important improvements to the software
and interesting new features, and implementing them.
- Coming up with creative solutions to bugs and
issues, and implementing them.
- Directly interfacing with a rapidly growing,
worldwide researcher/user community.
- Gaining experience in an exciting lab, doing
research in psychology and neuroscience.
- Having the flexibility to be creative and make your
own contributions.
If interested in the position or would like more
information, please contact:
Jon Freeman
Department of Psychology
Tufts University
490 Boston Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
Email:
jon.freeman@tufts.edu
Web:
http://www.jbfreeman.net
September 15,
2010
Expanding user community
I'm happy to tell you that the community of researchers
using MouseTracker has been rapidly growing, with 275
researchers across a wide range of fields now having downloaded
MouseTracker for use in their labs. Thanks very much for your
word of mouth in helping expand the user community.
Review paper and your manuscripts
A few colleagues and I are considering writing up a review
paper on mouse-tracking research sometime in the near future. We
are wondering about any mouse-tracking manuscripts you may have
that are published, in-press, or likely to be in-press shortly.
If you would share with us, we would be pleased to incorporate
it into the review. Also, if you have a published a paper or
have a paper in-press that describes a MouseTracker study, feel
free to get in touch if you'd like it posted on the Publications
section of the MouseTracker website.
Questions, bugs, feature requests, and support
For questions, bugs, feature requests, and support, there is now
a support forum:
http://mousetracker.jbfreeman.net/forum. Please try this
forum first, as it may contain the answer to your question or
issue.
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