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Issues in the Design of Workstations for Psychology Experimentation

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Workstations for Experiments

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Three issues must be considered in the design of a computer-based system for psychology experimentation: flexibility and generality, data logging and temporal precision, and stimulus presentation. This paper discusses these issues and presents solutions to them based on the design of a graphics workstation used for running experiments in perception, human factors and cognitive psychology in the Computer Graphics Lab of the University of Waterloo.

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  1. Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Wilhelminenstraße 7, D-61600, Darmstadt, Germany

    José L. Encarnação

  2. Graphics Research Laboratory, University of Lowell, 01854, Lowell, MA, USA

    Georges G. Grinstein

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Bartram, L.R., Booth, K.S., Cowan, W.B. (1991). Issues in the Design of Workstations for Psychology Experimentation. In: Encarnação, J.L., Grinstein, G.G. (eds) Workstations for Experiments. IFIP Series on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75903-1_13

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