jsPsychHardware

Allows browsers to access COM and LPT port hardware
What is jsPsychHardware?
jsPsychHardware is a Chrome extension that enhances the jsPsych library by enabling access to COM and LPT port hardware. It allows researchers to conduct web experiments and record physiological data simultaneously, providing a seamless and efficient way to compare and analyze results.

Extension stats

Users: 54
Version: 0.5 (Last updated: 2017-11-22)
Creation date: 2017-11-21
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • nativeMessaging
  • storage
Size: 288.77K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

The jsPsych library allows researchers in psychology and any other behavioral sciences to run experiments easily and transparently on the web. Participants now only need an internet connection and a regular browser, the same stuff they use everyday online!

However, it can be useful to compare data gathered through web experiments with physiological data (like EEG, EMG, Eyetracker) that can only be recorded with sophisticated lab equipement.

Rather than wasting time developing the very same experiment both in jsPsych (for the web) and your standard experiment editor (PsychoPy, OpenSesame, E-prime, etc), which runs the risk of introducing confounding differences in the protocols, it would be nice to give jsPsych the power to interface with such equipement. Subjects in the lab would go to the very same URL they would have requested at home, and do the same experiment, only that now, it sends triggers to hardware.

And this extension, coupled with a small program available freely on our lab website, allows just that :)

Extension safety

Risk impact

jsPsychHardware requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

jsPsychHardware is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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