Overview
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Behavioural experiments are now commonly used in many disciplines of research such as psychology, economics, and information system. The advent of internet technology together with the increasingly complex experimental designs has seen increasing number of experiments that are supported by technology (e.g. web-based). Many such experiments are often custom-developed from scratch, and are thus expensive to develop, preventing many researchers from potentially using experiments as a means of evidence gathering in their research. While tools for assisting in the creation and execution of such experiments exist, they often require programming for complex experiments and are thus still of restricted application potential. This research seek to develop a development and deployment environment that requires no programming but yet sophisticated enough to define complex experiments. The core challenge of this research is the development of an (internal) language (e-Expian) for describing the various elements of an experiment, and an engine to interpret an experiment written in e-Expian to instantiate (i.e. execute) the experiment. The secondary challenge is to develop a graphical interface that enables an experimenter (i.e. the user) to design and specify an experiment without having to knows the language, and the associated translator to convert that specification into e-Expian.
- Study level
- PhD
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Taizan Chan
