[open] EMA studies using OpenSesame

psychofs

Hello everybody,

for my Master's thesis I'd like to realize an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) on Emotional Eating. Providing the questionnaire by the OpenSesame Runtime Environment for Android should work, I hope (I've just started programming it and haven't even given it a try).

What causes a slightly bigger problem to me is the way how to realize the notification for the participants. What I'd like to do is to have a system notification / reminder in Android once in 2hrs at a random point of time at least 45 minutes after the last one. Is there any way of creating such notifications in the android system tray and having it set off an alert using Python in the OpenSesame Runtime Environment? Or does anybody have better suggestions?

Thanks so much for your support

Florian

sebastiaan

Hi Florian,

The OpenSesame runtime for Android doesn't support this type of native Android functionality. But what you could do is use a simple app such as Llama, to show a notification at certain specified moments, or even have it launch OpenSesame directly. There are few of those types of apps around, some of them paid, such as Locale. I would just google to see which one suits you best.

Llama is quite straightforward. I actually use this app to disable account syncing on my phone in the evening, so I don't get bothered by notification mails from the forum.

Cheers,
Sebastiaan