Want to start experiment automatically when clicked

ilke_sahin

Is there any way that I can make the experiment start automatically when clicked (like a powerpoint show)? I want to conduct an experiment remotely so I'm going to ask the participant to download opensesame and start the experiment by themselves but don't want the participants to see the interface.

Fab

Hi @ilke_sahin,

You may want to try out the opensesamerun mesthod described here:

https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/4.0/manual/opensesamerun/

In principle you could run such code into a .bat file (for Windows users; not sure on Mac). The challenge would be that you can't know where the task is downloaded on the participant's computer so that the command refers to the correct paths. So, in practice, it mmight prove a little difficult.

An altenative, if you'd like participants to be able to run the expeirment without having to install and open Open Sesame, is to program your task to run in the browser and deploy it through JATOS. OSWeb 2.0 was designed precisely to allow to run tasks remotely. OSWeb 2.0 allows many of Open Sesame's features, though not all, so you would need to check out the documentation and you may have to modify your task (e.g., OSWeb does not support Python inline scripts, which you'd have to implement in Javascript instead).

Hope this helps,

Fabrice.