Input devices: force plate & Wacom device

ninavanmastrigt

I am developing a reaching task experiment in which participants have to "reach" to a target on screen by controlling either a) a stylus on a Wacom pressure tablet or b) their center-of-pressure on a forceplate.

Does anyone have experience with using these devices as input devices or tips/contacts that could help me?

Thanks in advance,

Nina van Mastrigt

eduard

Hi Nina,

I myself have no experience, so I don't think I can help you. However, I can tell you what you need to google in order to find a solution. Opensesame is wrapped around Python. So if things are possible in Python, you should be able to use Opensesame in combination with Python to make them happen for you. In your particular example, you need to find out how to interact with a wacom stylus with python (aka a Python API for the Stylus). That API defines a basic set of commands then can be used from within Python to interact with the device. If it exists, you can use the commands in an inlinescript item and talk to the device. So, first you should try to find out whether there is such a thing. If google doesn't help (e.g. this?), you can contact the Wacom people directly

Hope this helps a bit,

Eduard

ninavanmastrigt

Thanks a lot!!