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Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me. I am a psychologist and I need to run some computer-based experiments online to get hold of participants. It's a program similar to a Who Wants to be a Millionnaire type of quiz and I'm not sure how to get it online. I have my own website so I was hoping that I could have a link from my website to link to a program that will open either in another window or another page on my site. The responses from all the participants will need to automatically be saved and sent to me/put in a folder somewhere so I can access them after the participant has completed the task.

I would appreciate some advice on how to do this as I have very limited knowledge of programming.

Thanks.

Hi there sel203,

revMedia is in Alpha at the moment, and there are some possible issues with installing the revWeb plugin (particularly to make it work with IE8 consistently, with an installation under UAC in Vista, for example) but this is being worked on and should be a more streamlined process soon.

However, if you go to www.runrev.com and choose the revMedia Alpha Program link on the left, and make sure that you have the revWeb plugin installed, then choose Samples from the menu near the top, you can choose the "simple poll" demonstration by choosing the "checkbox" icon on the right of the samples menu.

This will show you that it's perfectly possible to get interactive data stored by using an online method.

Above all, it is FREE.

To retrieve the results submitted, there are a number of things you can do, since the revlet will be running in the client environment (ie on the user's computer, not the server). One simple approach would be to collect the data in the right format (name=value pairs) and use the revlet to POST the submission to a server side processing page, eg on-Rev if you have an account, php, or perhaps more simply and conveniently in this case, to a Google docs spreadsheet.

It's a bit beyond the scope of this forum to give you a complete solution, but I think if you're discovering RunRev, you will find it one of the simplest ways to get into programming of any sort, and find yourself able to achieve a lot more than you thought quite quickly. If you look at all the tutorial material you can find then I'm sure you will get to grips with it soon.

There are certainly other ways to achieve this, with java or flash applets, or for a less interactive/media based option, then with php or on-Rev, but I think that your sort of project is exactly what revMedia is meant for.

HTH,
SparkOut