sbtseiji/jspsychsheet

A simple JavaScript library that uses jsPsych and Google Sheet for running behavioral experiments online

Updates: jsPsychSheet has been update to version 2! Now you do not need to host the experiment page on Google AppScript Domain. You can simply host it as GitHub pages or use you own custom domain.

Note: If you are still using jsPsychSheet version 1, make sure you make the necessary change. See here.

jsPsychSheet

The pandemic allowed us to explore the benefits of shifting behavioral studies online because of the lockdown and social distancing norms. Online experiments have several other advantages. It gives us the possibility of recruiting a massive number of subjects from different regions around the world. Additionally, it also provides us with the opportunity of sharing the experiment paradigm with other researchers, leading to more open and reproducible research. But collecting behavioral data from online experiments could be a tedious task, requiring researchers to command HTML, JavaScript, and server-side coding skills. Buying a server to store experimental data also requires additional setup costs for the researcher. jsPsych is one of the popular JavaScript libraries that provide several packages to ease the design of behavioral experiments in a web browser without having high-level knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. But the researcher still needs to command their server-side coding skills to save the data to an online database. jsPsychSheet is a tiny JavaScript library that solves this problem by providing a quick 2-min recipe to store the experiment data from jsPsych to Google Sheets. Google Sheets is a handy online spreadsheet provided by Google free of cost. The data from google sheet can later be download as a CSV file.

Tutorials on how to use jsPsychSheet

• Getting started with jsPsychSheet: Storing jsPsych experiment data in Google Sheets
• Tutorial on how to upload your experiment data in between the trials

Citation and reference

Please reference this repo if you use it anywhere. You can use the below citation if you use it in any academic setting.

Shashi Kant Gupta. (2020, May 29). jsPsychSheet: A simple JavaScript library that uses jsPsych and Google Sheet for running behavioral experiments online. Zenodo.

License

Licensed under the MIT License. The license file is here. Reference this repository if you use it in your work.