In this interview Josh explains how he used games to add a realistic social dimension to his experiments and to make them more engaging for his participants. Josh has worked for over 15 years in both industry (GlaxoSmithKline, Nielsen) and academia (Trinity College...
Niko Steinbas at UCL commission us to create a series of Go/NoGo games that could be used to train executive function. These games are designed to be played by kids over 8 weeks with the games constantly adapting to the players level of ability.
Picking a wine in a restaurant can be a nightmare, even if there are just three to choose from. Do you opt for the cheapest one, which sounds dependable? Or the mid-priced one that apparently goes with your food better? Or the most expensive one, even though it has a...
In this interview Diana Laurillard explains why constructionist principles are so valuable to education and how they can be incorporated into fun games that people want to play. Diana is Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the UCL Knowledge Lab. She was...
In this interview, Professor Dorothy Bishop talks to us about how she has used games both for teaching children language as well as for keeping them motivated in psycholinguistics experiments. Dorothy is a psychologist specializing in developmental language disorders....
This webinar is all about speech production online. https://youtu.be/1RDCWX2KfTU With the help of our experts: Dr Neil Kirk, Abertay University (twitter: @DrNeilKirk) Dr Emma James, Oxford University (twitter: @emljames) Dr Abbie Bradshaw, UCL (twitter: @ABradshawPhD)...
Good science needs properly powered studies.  Ten years into the replication crisis, we know this more than ever.  Behavioural science can’t progress while we have serious doubts about the generalisability of our findings. We know part of the solution is larger...
So you want to add a bit of coding magic to your experiment, but don’t know how to begin? We are here to help you get started! We all know that Gorilla doesn’t require you to know how to code, but sometimes you want to add a little something extra to your experiment....
This webinar is all about conducting eye and mouse tracking research online. With the help of our experts: Dr Jens Madsen, City College of New York (twitter: @cogniemotion) Simone Lira Calabrich, Bangor University (twitter: @Simonecalabrich) Prof Tom Armstrong,...
The Replication Crisis is the great enemy of behavioural scientists everywhere. More and more, we are finding that previous studies are either incredibly challenging or impossible to reproduce. But can the internet solve some of the challenges presented by this...
Are you confident your online experiment will get you the data quality you need? Check out these top three considerations when piloting your study. At BeOnline 2020 Emily Breese gave an insightful talk about piloting research. An often overlooked element of the...
Has your research stalled? Find out how researchers have liberated their lab with rapid project grants! The past year has been a difficult time for behavioural science research. No longer being able to work face-to-face with participants meant a lot of research was...
This webinar is all about conducting auditory and speech research online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8byQJ9ORok With the help of our experts: Dr Rachel Theodore, University of Connecticut (twitter: @rachelmtheodore) Dr Alice Milne, UCL (twitter: @aemilne) Dr...
First year psychology undergrads at a poster session. They’re in small groups and presenting a small research project that they’ve created and recruited participants for. They’ve even interpreted the data that an R script has extracted for them. Oh, and all this has...
Some researchers have resisted the move to online research over the last few years, but the COVID crisis has forced many to switch to online methods. Taking research online brings many benefits, that may cause researchers to think twice before automatically reverting...
COVID-19 has disrupted doctoral training programmes. But at least in the behavioural sciences students can continue their primary research online. Phew. A big issue facing behavioural science PhDs The COVID-19 pandemic has had massive implications for doctoral...
 Are you curious about the timing accuracy of your online experiments? Online stimulus and response timing is good enough for a wide range of behavioural research. However, there are some quirky combinations to watch out for. We also make recommendations of how to...
