A few issues, can you OpenSesame experts tell me where I’m going wrong?

MariaKnight

Hello all, and thank you in advance for any advice or pointers you might be able to offer.

Im new to OpenSesame, having only used it for the last week. Even so I’ve managed to get an experiment in facial recognition sort of working, albeit with a few issues that I cannot seem to find any previous postings for. In all likelihood I’m using the wrong search terms so if anyone could offer a prod in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

Problem 1 is that I can run the experiment as it is just fine when I hit the “give your experiment a quick test run” button, but if I use the “run in window” or “run full screen” options It skips through a whole section of experiment... I cannot figure out why... I suspect there’s some really simple set-up option that I’ve missed but it’s proving impossible to locate.

Problem 2 is that I need to provide an “exit” key on each of the pages, so that a user can stop the experiment and go straight the the debrief page at the end of the experiment. Again, for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do this,

The last problem is one that really confounds me. I want to ask each of my participants to enter their unique participant code at the start of the experiment. This will be a 2 or 3 digit number, that can be entered by the participant and then recorded in the log file, I tried using a variable to do this but it’s really not working. Any ideas how I can achieve this?

Many thanks,

Maria

MariaKnight

An update, I’ve solved problem 1! Problem 2 & 3 still continue to confound though... I think I’ll take my little Dachshund for walk and see if inspiration strikes...

lvanderlinden

Hi @MariaKnight ,

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

Regarding Question 3: Are you running your experiment locally or online? If locally, it sounds like you need a text_input_form item. If online, perhaps the following post could be of help?

• https://forum.cogsci.nl/discussion/4737/text-input-form-for-use-with-jatos

Regarding Question 2: It think you could use a break-if statement for this.

• https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.3/manual/structure/loop/#breaking-the-loop

Could you share the experimental script that you have so far, so that we can have a look at how to implement this exactly?

Cheers,

Lotje