Welcome to the world of Collector!

This first video will show you how to install the software required to run Collector files on your computer.

How to download Collector files and run for the first time.

Due to updates to WAMPSERVER what is shown in this video may not work as described. To see the fix watch the next video "Run Collector from any folder"

Learn how to run Collector when using WAMPSERVER 2.5+ and, more importantly, see how you can setup your localhost so you can run experiments located anywhere on your machine.

In this video we go over all of the Collector basics that make creating your own experiments possible.

Topics Covered:

• Loading stimuli
• Ordering stimuli presentation
• Controlling stimuli display
• Controlling timing of stimuli presentation
• Shuffles Demystified (hopefully)

This was our first time using hangouts on air to broadcast Collector training so things start off a little bumpy but stick with it and you'll learn a lot.

Talking about all the currently available trial types, how to use them, and basics of making your own trial type.

Note: for a stretch in this video Tyson's screen was selected (instead of mine) so I'm talking about code snippets that you're not seeing. Unfortunately, we have no way to recover the video that was lost.

Most of this video is us showing off new features and then we do a bit about how to get your data back out of the program.

Now that you're familiar with all the core functionality of Collector we bring the pieces together. Up to this point we've been crawling but now we finally stand up and start running.

The Process in this video:

1. Have a good experiment idea (easier said than done)
2. Download fresh copy of Collector
3. Load stimuli
4. Setup Conditions file
5. Setup procedure files
6. Create custom trial types
7. Setup custom scoring
8. Dot i's and cross t's (instructions, settings)
9. Put your experiment on the web
10. Collect data!!!
11. Download your data
12. Quick tips for easy analysis of Collector data

In the course of this whirlwind session we also show how to create multisession experiments.

SCIENCE!!!!