Introduction to Online Behavioural Research with Gorilla
Introduction to Online Behavioural Research with Gorilla Experiment Builder is an online tutorial on how to design and run your own experiments. Here we share the webinar video and slides with you. We will add some of the questions that were asked during the live session and their responses. If you have a question, please send it through using the form below, and we will follow up with a response and any other resources.
Learn about the benefits of online behavioural research, how to collect and maintain data quality when designing experiments. Dr Catriona Silvey shares a few fascinating research projects that used Gorilla, and walks through a practical showcase of the tool. This tutorial is perfect for PhD and postdoctoral researchers wanting to take Reaction Time tasks online quickly and easily without learning JavaScript or other programming languages.
About Gorilla
Gorilla Experiment Builder is a cloud-based research platform that allows researchers and students to quickly and easily create and deploy behavioural (reaction-time) experiments online. Get 50 tokens FREE when you buy 50 tokens with the promo code GORILLASAGE2021. Offer ends January 31st 2022. Find out more and follow Gorilla on twitter.
About the Speakers
Dr Catriona Silvey is a former academic researcher with 10 years of experience running linguistics and psychology experiments both in the lab and online. At Gorilla, she focuses on introducing new users to the possibilities of the platform and the benefits of online research.
Q&A
+ How can I start using Gorilla?
You can create an account and build an experiment for free with Gorilla, and use the promo code GORILLASAGE2021 to get 50 free tokens when you buy 50. With Gorilla you only pay for the data collection. See more on our flexible pricing here: https://app.gorilla.sc/pricing
+ Is there a user manual on Gorilla software?
We've got a wide range of support documentation available for users to get started. I'd recommend our get started guide or one of our onboarding webinars as great places to start.
+ Who has access to the actual data that is collected?
At Gorilla we are very aware of the importance of keeping your data secure. The data that's collected is owned by the researcher and we never access it (unless explicitly asked to do so by the researcher e.g. to answer a support question). We have a comprehensive due diligence information about data security here.
+ Is Gorilla GDPR compliant?
Gorilla is fully GDPR compliant, and you can find more about this here.
+ How do you ensure that the participants are really eligible to participate in your study?
Gorilla is a platform for creating your tasks and experiments rather than finding participants. However, we do offer integration with a number of popular recruitment services, such as Prolific, Sona Systems and MTurk. You can find more information about recruitment options here. If you were using Prolific, for example, you can check out this extensive step-by-step guide on how to connect it with Gorilla.
+ Is it possible to include survey questionnaires before the experiment?
Yes! Gorilla includes a Questionnaire Builder tool which allows you to collect a wide variety of survey data from participants. Find out more in our how-to guide.
As well as a survey tool, Gorilla also includes a task builder, code editor, game builder and shop builder. To create an experiments, the individual tools are combined using our experiment tree tool. This allows for an immense range of experimental designs, while making it easy to work with each bit of the experience.
+ Is there a way to run multi-participant experiments (i.e., economic games)?
One of our upcoming features in 2022 is Multiplayer, which will allow multiple participants to interact within the same task; if you are interested in trying it out, contact us on info at gorilla dot sc.
+ Does Gorilla support other languages?
Our documentation and guides for using Gorilla aren't yet available in other languages; however, if you are able to use Gorilla, we have localisation options so you can customize both the instructions and the automatic text within the Task Builder to be in the language your participants will be using. Find out more about localisation in Gorilla here.
We have researchers using Gorilla all over the world including: The Netherlands, Germany, France, Brazil, Israel, Japan, China and UAE. So we're confident that the Gorilla participant experience, can be customised for a wide range of languages and scripts.
+ Does Gorilla support two different tasks on one screen, for instance can a participant see an image and hear an audio file simultaneously?
Yes, you can present an image and an audio file on the same screen as multiple stimuli by adding both an Image Zone and a Web Audio Zone to the same screen in your Task. Find out more about incorporating different Zones in our Task Builder Zones Tooling Reference Guide.
+ Can I design my own tasks if these aren't available?
Yes! The Gorilla task builder has lots of different zones that can be configured in an wide range of different combinations to bring you study design to life. Essentially, we provide the LEGO bricks and you combine them to create what you need.
If we don't have the right 'lego brick', you can you extend the functionality of our tools using using scripting. So you'll always have a way through. An advanced webinar on this topic is coming soon!
You can also program your own tasks in the Code Editor. You can import third-party libraries to build your own task from scratch, or alternatively import tasks built in other frameworks (e.g. jsPsych and PsychoJS). Find our list of example tasks built in the Code Editor here.
