Welcome to part 2 of a multi-part series on how to conduct scientific experiments using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This tutorial will show you how to: Set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester Account. Set up a HIT template that will link to your online experiment. You will need to have a pre-developed online experiment or [...]

Welcome to part 1 of a multi-part series on how to conduct scientific experiments using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. This tutorial will show you how to: Set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester Account. Set up a HIT template that will link to your online experiment. You will need to have a pre-developed online experiment or [...]

Open Exhibits is a multitouch open source architecture supported by the National Science Foundation. They provide various  modules and templates for displaying interactive information geared towards educators, museum exhibit designers, and other types of information visualization designers. You can download their core for free if you are a student, educator, or museum professional. Since Open Exhibits is based on [...]

Here’s a great, free, opportunity from Amazon Web Services for those interested in getting into cloud computing. Click the link below to find out more. Direct from Amazon Web Services’s website: “To help new AWS customers get started in the cloud, AWS is introducing a new free usage tier. Beginning November 1, new AWS customers [...]

I thought I’d share a little app I developed that lets you upload and save your EndNote reference list. After uploading, you will be able to access your references from any computer or mobile device with an Internet connection. You can also use this to share your list(s) with other people. It’s not exactly cutting edge [...]

I just finished developing an Online version of the NASA-TLX (http://www.nasatlx.com) and thought I would share. The procedure behind the NASA-TLX was developed by the Human Performance Group at the NASA Ames Research Center. The goal of the TLX is to help researchers gather people’s subjective cognitive workload assessments when participating in various tasks. The [...]

With IBM buying SPSS I figured it is a good time to talk about what I think is the best statistical software package available: R, which is a proper computer language based on S. It can also use C, C++ and Fortran for more computationally intensive tasks. The free-to-download software package can be used to [...]

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is pretty much the place to be if you’re interested in HF or ergonomics. I like to think of HF as the pursuit to make life easier. Check it out, and don’t forget to read more about the technical groups – from the site: “The TGs provide a forum [...]

Great resource for bobbers, cafe racers and all manner of chopped two-wheeled projects you could imagine. From the site: “We are the voice of the working man, a tool in the toolbox of the guy that does it himself, and a place where citizen journalists can show the “big time” media a thing or two [...]