MouseTracker Version History
Version 2.67 - December
23, 2011
- Fixed issue with initcut
message text not appearing.
- Added ability to release
mouse cursor from holdforcompound lock in the middle of a compound stimulus
sequence.
Version 2.66 - November
17, 2011
- Fixed issue of misalignment
between response box region and image inside it (for image responses, i.e.,
starting with "~")
- Expanded raw time analysis
cut-off from 9999 ms to 99999 ms
Version 2.65 - October
6, 2011
- Fixed error with 'Compute'
button
- Changed 'END' signaling for
interfacing Runner with an external environment
Version
2.64 - October 2, 2011
- Init cut messages may now be
in image format
- Fixed issue with Clipboard
interface - Runner now only pastes to the Clipboard once rather than pasting
in a loop
Version
2.63 - September 7, 2011
- Fixed glitches with
Clipboard interfacing with external environments
Version
2.62 - August 23, 2011
- Fixed issue of Clipboard
interfacing with external environments.
- New MATLAB <--> MouseTracker
interfaced experiment example of an adaptive decision-making paradigm (adaptive_matlab.csv
and adaptive_matlab.m in the sample folder).
- More documentation on
interfacing.
Version
2.61 - August 21, 2011
- New comprehensive outlier
screening has been created, using Compute button.
- Fixed issues with spurious 0
values in Distributional Analysis window.
Version
2.6 - July 26, 2011
- A system has been developed
to allow Runner to interface on-line with an external application or
environment (e.g., MATLAB, Python, Java, etc.), e.g., for determining trials
on-the-fly based on prior trials' performance.
- Start button font and text
can now be specified (starttext, startfontname, startfontsize parameters).
- Fixed minor bugs and
improved error-handling (and recovering data when errors arise).
Version
2.5 - July 24, 2011
- Runner can now change screen resolution and cursor speed based on new
parameters in experiment .CSV files (screenres and cursorspeed).
- Fixed issue with Runner not recognizing responses when the click is made
at the screen edges
Version
2.45 - July 15, 2011
- Fixed issue with using 'holdforcompound' and 'respshowafter' options
simultaneously.
- Added 'respshowafteronset' parameter to set when responses are displayed
after pressing the Start button.
Version
2.44 - July 5, 2011
- Fixed 'Overflow' (Error #6) issue with few trajectories in a given
condition when exporting to .CSV
Version
2.43
- June 2, 2011
- Fixed issue of erroneous 0 values in distributional analysis window
Version
2.42
- April 25, 2011
- Fixed errors after hitting 'Compute' button with a very small number of
trials in a condition
- "Errorhover" parameter changed to "hovermode" - there are now two modes,
one which sets incorrect response buttons to be hover responses and another
which sets both incorrect and correct response buttons to be hover responses
Version
2.41
- April 16, 2011
- Fixed issue with using video stimuli (stimulus-type 6) in compound
trials (trial-type 4)
Version
2.4
- March 30, 2011
- Ability to use video files (AVI, WMV, etc.) as stimuli (trial-type 6)
- Response buttons may be transparent (use "~" alone in response column)
- Fixed issue with dragging stimuli (dragging parameter) in
compound trials
- Fixed issue with opening/saving .CSVs specifying an image for
screencolor parameter in Designer
Version
2.3
- March 1, 2011
- Experiment log files (subjectID_explog.txt) are now created, which
detail each trial executed in an experiment.
- A Test Mode for Runner is now available (use "-test" as command-line
argument), which provides a fast way to detect errors in an experiment .CSV
file (see Running Experiments in help manual).
Version
2.24
- February 7, 2011
- Usability improvements.
- Corrections in help documentation.
- Better software registration.
Version
2.23
- December 27, 2010
- Fixed issue with
loading fonts in Designer
- Fixed update notification
issue in Designer.
- Other usability improvements.
Version
2.22
- December 3, 2010
- Fixed issue with
randomization without replacement ("~") feature for random-pick (trial-type
5) segments embedded in compound trials (trial-type 4)
- Time durations may be
specified for non-experimental trials (trial-type 0) rather than waiting for
participant to hit Return key
- New parameter, respborder
(note: may be set in Designer), sets black border of response buttons on or
off (rather than always being on)
Version
2.21
- November 23, 2010
- Angle of movement profiles
now generated in raw time analyses (supplementing velocity and acceleration
profiles)
- Command-line arguments now
available for Runner (allowing subject ID and experiment file to be
specified prior to running or when running multiple
experiments in a row)
Version
2.2
- October 4, 2010
- Trials may take an
unlimited amount of time (rather than having an upper limit of 500 samples,
i.e., roughly 7 seconds)
- May use background images
rather than a color
Version
2.19
- September 8, 2010
- Fixed between subjects
analysis 'Object required' error.
Version
2.18
- July 19, 2010
- Added distributional
analysis tool for Analyzer (right-click on a condition pane), including
customizable histogram for MD and AUC distributions, and computation of
skewness, kurtosis, and bimodality
- Small usability
improvements.
Version
2.17
- July 7, 2010
- Added ability to
analyze/import manually recoded trajectories
- Added ability to export all
trajectories in the Condition 1 or 2 pane to a CSV file in a vertical format
that can be used to easily generate an Excel scatterplot of all trajectories
- Can import trajectories from
.MT files with varying number of total trials and varying conditions
- Fixed bugs
Version
2.16
- June 14, 2010
- Fixed manual exclusion
'Save' function
- Added ability to exclude
individual trajectories from selected tracks list
- Added ability to manually
assign selected trajectories to new condition code
Version
2.15
- May 20, 2010
- Added in-program 'Update
MouseTracker' software
updating system.
- Fixed error #13 'Type
mismatch' issues for importing trajectories with missing information
- Original condition codes are
now available in Selected trajectory window and output .CSV file.
- Fixed other minor bugs
Version
2.14
- May 15, 2010
- Added checkboxes for file
list in Analyzer for easy inclusion/exclusion of subjects
- Added 'Data' button above
x, y time-courses and velocity and acceleration profiles in
Analyzer, which displays actual mean data in grid format
- Fixed 'Subscript out of
range' error when loading a new folder
- Export .CSV files no longer
include '0' condition trials
- Fixed issue with mean MD and
AUC values = 0 for conditions involving only 1 trial
- Fixed other minor bugs
Version
2.13
- May 7, 2010
- Fixed erroneous MD and AUC
reporting for incorrect responses in trial-by-trial output CSV file
- Fixed errors during
'Compute' when subjects have zero trajectories in a condition
- Fixed other minor bugs
Version
2.12
- April 21, 2010
- Unique feedback messages may
now be specified for each response alternative
- Number of incorrect
responses are now listed in export .CSV file under mean trajectory data
- Fixed bugs
Version
2.11
- April 4, 2010
- Minimum/maximum sizes of
x-flips and y-flips can now be specified
- Respshowafter freeze
bug fixed
- Fixed bugs
Version
2.1
- March 11, 2010
- Added 90-degree rotation
ability for remapping
- More comprehensive remapping
procedures for complex experiment designs
- Fixed remapping issues and
several bugs when conducting raw-time analyses.
- Added ability to wait for a
participant to hit the Enter key in order to continue a compound trial's
sequence (e.g., self-paced designs)
- Quicker trajectory importing
- Trajectory pane selection
rectangle can now be dragged leftward and upward (rather than just rightward
and downward)
- "Load Folder" function now
starts by default at the currently loaded folder
- Fixed other minor bugs
Version
2.02
- March 4, 2010
- Fixed "Path/File Access"
error at end of experiments run on Windows limited-user accounts
- Added experiment abort key
for Runner (F12)
- Fixed maximum deviation (MD)
calculation
- Fixed other minor bugs
Version
2.01
- February 7, 2010
- Fixed response error
hovering bug
- Fixed stimulus vertical
centering (stimvcenter) bug
- Fixed response with "$" bug
- Fixed other minor bugs
Version
2.0
- January 23, 2010 (MAJOR CHANGES)
- Can now design experiments
with unlimited number of response alternatives
- Response alternatives,
"Start" button, and stimuli may be placed anywhere on the screen
- New Designer program
for graphics-based assistance in setting up layout of experiments
- Much more flexibility in
Analyzer (e.g., can decide which responses to allow and how to remap
trajectories)
- Time-normalization can now
be done with a user-defined number of time steps (not just 101)
- A y-flips measure is
now computed (complexity along the y-axis)
Version 1.16
- January 10, 2010
- Fixed bug when hitting
Export-to-CSV in a raw-time analysis
- Fixed error in help
documentation about computing maximum deviation
Version 1.15
- December 11, 2009
- No more license screen when
Runner starts
- Fixed bug in
between-subjects analysis
- You can now set what happens
at the end of an experiment (e.g., debriefing screen, run a link)
- The cursor can be
automatically relocated to the Start button after a response is made
Version 1.14
- November 29, 2009
- Support for Windows versions
outside the United States (decimal separator compatibility issue)
- Faster Export-to-.CSV
process
- Fixed bugs
- Small usability enhancements
Version 1.13
- October 16, 2009
- Between subjects analysis feature
- Fixed bugs
Version 1.12
- October 2, 2009
- Dragging feature added where image stimuli
can now be dragged across the screen into a response
- Better error reporting in the Runner
program
- Velocity/acceleration can be computed
using x,y-coordinates or just x-coordinates
- Response text can incorporate line breaks
- Small bugs fixed
Version 1.11
- September 17, 2009
- Added feature allowing blocks of trials to
be presented in random order
- Added feature allowing "random-pick"
trials where one of several alternatives is randomly selected on a given
trial (with or without replacement)
- Bug fix: response button background color
- Several other bug fixes
Version 1.1 - September 8, 2009
- Expanded ability to analyze trajectories
in raw time (rather than normalized time)
- Added features of generating velocity and
acceleration profiles
- Trajectory colors made to be customizable
- Trajectory selection tool improvements
- Presentation timing of image stimuli
improved
- Several other bug fixes
Version 1.0
- June 3, 2009