Displaying recent text Input

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• vatsalthebest

  October 2018

  Hey Avigam,
  
  I am sorry but your description of the task is a bit confusing. From what I read I can understand that:
  
  1. You're displaying a list of words
  2. You ask them to sequentially input as many words they can remember
  3. Then sequentially display them words that were recalled correctly and ask them why they think they could recall it.
  Let's break up the above problems.
  1. You can use the sketchpad item to display the words. You can put these words in a loop item and then display then display it sequentially. See this: https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/tutorials/beginner/.
  
  2. Now inorder to take response from them you have to use a text input form. First go through this: https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/manual/forms/custom/
  Then this: https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/manual/forms/widgets/#text_input-textinput
  
  The former link gives you the idea as to how to create a form in OS and the later link introduce you to text input form.
  
  3. This one would require the python coding. A piece of code to match the words entered by the participant. Its not difficult however, I am not sure which variable in the text input form stores the response from the participant may be @sebastiaan can guide us here. Once we match the words that have been correctly entered we can use another python code to display those correctly recalled words sequentially to them
  This link can help us: https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/tutorials/advanced/#step-9-create-rsvp-stream-prepare-phase
  
  Hope this gives you some idea
  
  Thanks
  Vatsal
• avigam

  October 2018 edited October 2018

  Hi @vatsalthebest , thanks for your help, and sorry about the confusion.

  I managed to build my experiment as i wanted, except now i encountered a new problem, how can i check if the input to the text input form was blank?
  I tried with an inline script, using codes:

  if not var.form_var:
  var.myWord = var.myWord.append(form_var)

  if var.form_var != None:
  var.myWord = var.myWord.append(form_var)

  (form_var is the variable for the input form, myWord an array to store the words recalled.)

  but neither seem to work.

  Thanks
  Avi
• vatsalthebest

  October 2018

  Hey Avigam!
  
  I am afraid I am stuck at the first place. That is I can't find what variable the text inputs are stored.
  
  I urge @eduard or @sebastiaan could help you out in this.
  
  I read on the forum that 'stub' is the variable that shows whether text input was empty or there was an entry there.
  
  Sorry I couldn't help you
  
  Vatsal
• eduard

  October 2018

  Hi Avi,

  How far did you get already? If you share your experiment, we can probably help you more straightforwardly.

  1. How can i access the words just typed in by the subjects?

  https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.2/manual/forms/variables/#text_input

  The var keyword takes the variable that you want to use to access the text input. So if you set `var = 'input_resp', this will be the word that was put in.

  2 How can i validate these words (by comparison to the original list, to make sure the word was actually on it)?

  I suppose every text input is in a loop/sequence structure, right? If you do so, add an inline_script to that sequence in which you put this (or similar) code:

  # supposing that var.input_resp is the text input response and word_list is a list with all the studies words
  if var.input_resp in word_list: 
      var.correct = 1
      correct_words.append(var.input_resp) # you have to define this correct_words list earlier in your experiment, before the recall phase!
  else:
     var.correct = 0
  

  3. How can i display to the subjects (say in a sketchpad), each word correctly recalled?

  Once you have the list with correct words, you can loop over it and present those words in a sketchpad, one by one, or you can just draw all of them on the same canvas, maybe even a form. Depending on your experiment, the implementation can look very different.

  Hope this helps,

  Eduard