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Todd M Gureckis1, Jay Martin2,3, John McDonnell2,4, Alexander S Rich2, Doug Markant5, Anna Coenen2, David Halpern2, Jessica B Hamrick6, Patricia Chan2.
Abstract
Online data collection has begun to revolutionize the behavioral sciences. However, conducting carefully controlled behavioral experiments online introduces a number of new of technical and scientific challenges. The project described in this paper, psiTurk, is an open-source platform which helps researchers develop experiment designs which can be conducted over the Internet. The tool primarily interfaces with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a popular crowd-sourcing labor market. This paper describes the basic architecture of the system and introduces new users to the overall goals. psiTurk aims to reduce the technical hurdles for researchers developing online experiments while improving the transparency and collaborative nature of the behavioral sciences.Keywords: Amazon Mechanical Turk; Internet experiments; Online experiments; Open science; psiTurk
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26428910 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-015-0642-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Behav Res Methods ISSN: 1554-351X