Exporting PowerPoint Presentation in OpenSesame

Shintaro

Hello,

First, I am sorry for my poor English. I have a presentation/experiment in PowerPoint, and my teachers told me that i could export a PowerPoint presentation in OpenSesame to administer it remotly since the covid-19 crisis. However, i tried to find in the program and on the internet how to export a PowerPoint file in OpenSesame. It looks like i can't do it. I just started to use OpenSesame so i don't know a lot about this program.

Thank you for your help!

lvanderlinden

Hi @Shintaro ,

Thanks for your interest in OpenSesame and welcome to the forum! :)

Is it possible to share your powerpoint presentation by uploading it here (by clicking the paperclip icon below)?

Cheers,

Lotje

Shintaro

Hello @lvanderlinden,

Thank you for ur welcome :). As the PowerPoint is not from me and i don't know if I can share it, i just edited it a little. Also, i do not have access to the final version of the PowerPoint with the audio files played into it. Actually, my goal is to understand how to import a PowerPoint into OpenSesame, then elaborate the final PowerPoint before importing it into OpenSesame. As u asked me, I tried to upload here the shorter version of the PowerPoint. Howerver, I saved the shorter PowerPoint as a PowerPoint 97 - 2003 Presentation to post a "ppt" file, but i got a "request failed with status code 413" message. So I saved the PowerPoint on a PDF file and posted it here.

OUTIL POWERPOINT OPENSESAME FORUM - Copy.pdf

Regards,

Shintaro

Shintaro

Hello @lvanderlinden,

Maybe I should add some details on the presentation. In the first task, participants have to name the pictures. In the second task, they have to say "I like" or "I dislike" and click on the thumb according to their answer. Then, the second task is administered again, displaying the thumb participants previously clicked on, asking them to say the opposite answer. Finally, in the last task, participants hear a sentence containing an error, and they have to repeat the sentence correcting the false word. I don't know if all thoses details are useful at the moment.

Regards,

Shintaro

lvanderlinden

Hi @Shintaro ,

You can't just import a powerpoint file into OpenSesame.

Instead, you have to program the task yourself. I looked at the design of your experiment, and it is definitely doable in OpenSesame. One question though: How are you going to analyze participants' verbal responses? Is the experimenter present while the participant is performing the task, so that he can score the responses immediately? Or do you want to record the vocal response and listen to it later? The latter is a bit more tricky (but probably also doable).

As a start, you could look at some tutorials. Typically, new users start with the beginner's tutorial:

• https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/tutorials/beginner/

Alternatively, there are also two tutorials in French (also beginner's level):

• https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/fr/direction-du-regard/
• https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/fr/amorcage-categorique/

I suggest that you look at the tutorials to get a first impression. Then you can get back to us with more specific questions about implementing your own design in OpenSesame.

Cheers,

Lotje

Shintaro

Hi @lvanderlinden,

First, thank u for your answers :) At the moment, I am following your advice, watching and doing the tutorials to understand how OpenSesame works.

In this experiment, the experimenter should be present while the participants perform the tasks, as he is the one giving the instructions and displaying the items. In fact, the participants don't really use the mouse or the keyboard since they are young and some bias have been discovered in previous experiment when they do. In the first task (picture naming), he will juist check that participants know the vocabulary, and if they don't, the task will be used to learn the vocabulary. In the second task, he will just display the next item when the participant answered, and the verbal answer will be recorded for further analyses. In the last task, he will play the sound and display the next item. The verbal answer will be recorded too.

After doing the first tutorial, I am asking to myself if it is really needed to use OpenSesame, since the experimenter has to give verbal instructions and use the mouse by himself. Maybe it would be easier to just use an online communication tool and display my screen on the participant screen.

I'll go further this week, and i will come back here when i will be more used to OpenSesame.

Regards,

Shintaro