Note: To open .a7p files you need to have Macromedia (now Adobe) Authorware installed on your computer. They have a 30 day trial that you can download from Adobe.com. Otherwise, if you e-mail me I could send you a copy that will run without having Authorware installed.
| 5 card draw poker (ver. 3) Add 'em up Adjust the box Asteroids Authorware Screen Recorder Authorware, PHP, and MySQL Automated Operation Span Task Bar Graph Response Scale Click and Slide Click the moving ball Counting Span Task Edinburgh Handedness Inventory Eye-tracker Fake XP style titlebar Lexical Decision Task IAT | Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R) Modern Racism Scale Need for Cognition Normal Distribution PANAS PANAS-X Perceptual Identification Task IAT Priming (Subliminal Presentations) Random Image Placement Randomizing questions with data matching Rational-Experiential Inventory Regulatory Focus Questionnaire Regulatory Strength Measure Remote Associates Test Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale | Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Self-Consciousness Scale Simon Sinusoidal graphics Social Dominance Orientation Scale State Self-Esteem Scale Tooltips |
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5 card draw poker (ver. 3) (.a7p) EXEA game of 5 card draw poker with 2 computer opponents. The artificial intelligence plays at the level of University undergraduates. | ||
Add 'em up (.a7p)In the "normal" interaction you are asked to add up two numbers. In the "abnormal" interaction you do this while everything is changing colors and beeping at you. | ||
Adjust the box (.a7p)I don't know who could possibly have a use for this, but this program presents the user with 2 to 8 boxes of varying size, and the user's task is to estimate the average size of the boxes. | ||
Asteroids (.a7p) EXEYour spaceship must navigate the trecherous asteroid field. It tends to get choppy when there are ~6 asteroids on screen, and I haven't found a way to prevent that. Play now! | ||
Authorware Screen Recorder (.a7p)This uses an ActiveX called Screen2Video from Viscomsoft.com to record screen activity. | ||
Authorware, PHP, and MySQL (.a7p)Supporting PHP files A very brief intro, includes 1) writing data to a MySQL database, 2) writing to a text file on your site, and 3) retrieving data from MySQL and bringing it into Authorware. | ||
Bar Graph Response Scale (.a7p)With is example you are asked to categorize 100 people on a 0 to 10 scale of likeability. It tells you the mean, standard deviation, etc. of your responses. It also cranks out an normal curve to fit your data. | ||
Click and Slide (.a7p)This is our interpretation of an authorware slider interaction. Drag or Click on the scale to move the knob. The path and clickable area are both dynamically generated. | ||
Click the moving ball (.a7p)A circle appears briefly somewhere on the screen and you have to click on it before it disappears. | ||
Eye-tracker (.a7p)A moderately simple way to quantify what users are looking at on the screen. There is a big black alpha-channeled graphic blocking a photo. The graphic has a hole in the middle, through which they can view the picture. They click the area on the screen they want to see, and we track the click coordinates, what they were looking at, for how long, the serial order of what they viewed, et cetera. | ||
Fake XP style titlebar (.a7p)This is a fake titlebar that allows you some control over what happens when they try to exit by "x-ing out." It uses two BudAPI functions. | ||
Lexical Decision Task IAT (.a7p)This was used as an implicit test of racism. It very quickly presents a word ("White," "Black," or "XXXXX") then you are shown another string of letters and your task is to decide quickly if it is a word or not. More information is available in my powerpoint presentation. | ||
Normal Distribution (.a7p)This is a weird response scale that I made, where you indicate your comparative ability by clicking on a normal distribution. It then shades in how much of the population you think you are better than. Unlike my bar-graph example, this normal distribution is faked. | ||
Perceptual Identification Task IAT (.a7p)This is another measure of implicit racism. It briefly shows a white or black face, then a picture of either a drill or a pistol. The user's task is to decide as quickly as they can which it was. More information is available in my powerpoint presentation. | ||
Priming (Subliminal Presentations) (.a7p)Shows how to do a few different types of priming: graphic vs. alpha-numeric, parafoveal vs. foveal, masked vs. unmasked. It uses one BudAPI function. | ||
Random Image Placement (.a7p)Pictures are randomly ordered on the screen. | ||
Randomizing questions with data matching (.a7p)You have a bunch of questions that you want people to respond to in a random order, but you need to keep track of all their data. Here is one solution. | ||
Simon (.a7p)This is a reproduction of the classic Simon game. | ||
Sinusoidal graphics (.a7p)How to make sinusoidal graphics (waves, approximated normal distributions, etc.), and more. Also, see the one made by George Hawrysch | ||
Tooltips (.a7p)I had the sudden urge to use tooltips, but when I looked at the ShowMe I was overwhelmed by the complexity of their design--so I came up with a much simpler method. It requires that each item you want a tooltip for have its own hotspot--if they linger over the hotspot for one second, then the tooltip pops up. | ||
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Automated Operation Span Task (.a7p)Another measure of working memory capacity (similar to short memory). The original task was programmed in E-prime, we reproduced it in authorware. | ||
Counting Span Task (.a7p)Has subjects count one kind of shape in a field with distractors, and it is a measure of working memory capacity. | ||
Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (.a7p)This scale measures hand dominance for everyday tasks. | ||
Life Orientation Test Revised (LOT-R) (.a7p) PDF DOCA very brief scale for assessing whether a person is an optimist or a pessimist. | ||
Modern Racism Scale (.a7p) PDF DOCMcConahay's measure of overt racism. | ||
Need for Cognition (.a7p) PDF DOCA scale measuring whether and to what extent you like to engage in deep thinking. | ||
PANAS (.a7p) PDF DOC20 item Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. | ||
PANAS-X (.a7p) PDF DOC60 item Positive and Negative Affect Scale Expanded Version. | ||
Rational-Experiential Inventory (.a7p) PDF DOCThis scale measures a person's preference for logic vs. intuition. | ||
Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (.a7p) PDF DOCMeasures a person's tendency to seek rewards vs. avoid punishments. | ||
Regulatory Strength Measure (.a7p) PDF DOCAnother measure of prevention vs. promotion focus. This taps into ideal goals (hopes and aspirations) which have a promotion focus, vs. ought goals (duties and responsibilities) which have a prevention focus. | ||
Remote Associates Test (.a7p) PDF DOCThere is an easy version and a hard version. You are given three words and you are asked to generate a fourth word that is thematically related to the three given. It is commonly used as a way to manipulate feelings of success vs. failure. | ||
Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (.a7p) PDF DOCAltemeyer's measure of how conservatively dogmatic you are. | ||
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (.a7p)Rosenberg's 10 item scale assessing self-esteem. | ||
Self-Consciousness Scale (.a7p)Fenigstein's scale is for measuring the constructs of private and public self-consciousness. | ||
Social Dominance Orientation Scale (.a7p) PDF DOCA measure of how much you want to dominate other people. | ||
State Self-Esteem Scale (.a7p) PDF DOCHeatherton, & Polivy's scale for detecting temporary changes in feelings of self-esteem. | ||