Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App

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Perez Santangelo, Agustin; Solovey, Guillermo
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2022
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Online experiments allow for fast, massive, cost-efficient data collection. However, uncontrolled conditions in online experiments can be problematic, particularly when inferences hinge on response-times (RTs) in the millisecond range. To address this challenge, we developed a mobile-friendly open-source application using R-Shiny, a popular R package. In particular, we aimed to replicate the numerical distance effect, a well-established cognitive phenomenon. In the task, 169 participants (109 with a mobile device, 60 on a desktop computer) completed 116 trials displaying two-digit target numbers and decided whether they were larger or smaller than a fixed standard number. Sessions lasted ∼7-minutes. Using generalized linear mixed models estimated with Bayesian inference methods, we observed a numerical distance effect: RTs decreased with the logarithm of the absolute difference between the target and the standard. Our results support the use of R-Shiny for RT-data collection. Furthermore, our method allowed us to measure systematic shifts in recorded RTs related to different OSs, web browsers, and devices, with mobile devices inducing longer shifts than desktop devices. Our work shows that precise RT measures can be reliably obtained online across mobile and desktop devices. It further paves the ground for the design of simple experimental tasks using R, a widely popular programming framework among cognitive scientists.
Fil: Perez Santangelo, Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
Fil: Solovey, Guillermo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Calculo. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Calculo; Argentina
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
title Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
spellingShingle Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
Perez Santangelo, Agustin
NUMERICAL COGNITION
ONLINE EXPERIMENTS
R-SHINY
RESPONSE TIME
title_short Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
title_full Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
title_fullStr Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
title_full_unstemmed Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
title_sort Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Perez Santangelo, Agustin
Solovey, Guillermo
author Perez Santangelo, Agustin
author_facet Perez Santangelo, Agustin
Solovey, Guillermo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv NUMERICAL COGNITION
ONLINE EXPERIMENTS
R-SHINY
RESPONSE TIME
topic NUMERICAL COGNITION
ONLINE EXPERIMENTS
R-SHINY
RESPONSE TIME
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Online experiments allow for fast, massive, cost-efficient data collection. However, uncontrolled conditions in online experiments can be problematic, particularly when inferences hinge on response-times (RTs) in the millisecond range. To address this challenge, we developed a mobile-friendly open-source application using R-Shiny, a popular R package. In particular, we aimed to replicate the numerical distance effect, a well-established cognitive phenomenon. In the task, 169 participants (109 with a mobile device, 60 on a desktop computer) completed 116 trials displaying two-digit target numbers and decided whether they were larger or smaller than a fixed standard number. Sessions lasted ∼7-minutes. Using generalized linear mixed models estimated with Bayesian inference methods, we observed a numerical distance effect: RTs decreased with the logarithm of the absolute difference between the target and the standard. Our results support the use of R-Shiny for RT-data collection. Furthermore, our method allowed us to measure systematic shifts in recorded RTs related to different OSs, web browsers, and devices, with mobile devices inducing longer shifts than desktop devices. Our work shows that precise RT measures can be reliably obtained online across mobile and desktop devices. It further paves the ground for the design of simple experimental tasks using R, a widely popular programming framework among cognitive scientists.
Fil: Perez Santangelo, Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Computación; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
Fil: Solovey, Guillermo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Calculo. - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Calculo; Argentina
description Online experiments allow for fast, massive, cost-efficient data collection. However, uncontrolled conditions in online experiments can be problematic, particularly when inferences hinge on response-times (RTs) in the millisecond range. To address this challenge, we developed a mobile-friendly open-source application using R-Shiny, a popular R package. In particular, we aimed to replicate the numerical distance effect, a well-established cognitive phenomenon. In the task, 169 participants (109 with a mobile device, 60 on a desktop computer) completed 116 trials displaying two-digit target numbers and decided whether they were larger or smaller than a fixed standard number. Sessions lasted ∼7-minutes. Using generalized linear mixed models estimated with Bayesian inference methods, we observed a numerical distance effect: RTs decreased with the logarithm of the absolute difference between the target and the standard. Our results support the use of R-Shiny for RT-data collection. Furthermore, our method allowed us to measure systematic shifts in recorded RTs related to different OSs, web browsers, and devices, with mobile devices inducing longer shifts than desktop devices. Our work shows that precise RT measures can be reliably obtained online across mobile and desktop devices. It further paves the ground for the design of simple experimental tasks using R, a widely popular programming framework among cognitive scientists.
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Perez Santangelo, Agustin; Solovey, Guillermo; Running Online Behavioral Experiments Using R: Implementation of a Response-Time Decision Making Task as an R-Shiny App; Ubiquity Press; Journal of Cognition; 5; 1; 1-2022; 1-18
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