Tools for Studying Dyadic and Group Interactions in Online Experiments
There is a clear trend towards online experiments in the social sciences, especially with the advent of crowd-sourcing services such as MTurk and Prolific, which allow researchers to tap into large and diverse samples and run cost-effective, high-powered studies. However, since these platforms are designed to support individual (non-interactive) experiments, social psychologists studying dyadic and group processes face difficult trade-offs between restricting their methods to offline (lab) experiments, using deception, or paying for expensive programming services. In this workshop, we introduce two free and open-source tools (SMARTRIQS & SurvConf) that allow psychologists to design large-scale online studies featuring real-time group interactions and live text/audio/video chat, without having to learn any programming language.
Hosts: Andras Molnar, [email protected], University of Michigan; Min Ju Lee, [email protected], University of Texas at Austin