Predicting the Attention of Others

This repository contains code pertaining to the research article Predicting the Attention of Others.

It includes materials to:

• generate experiment stimuli (./stimuli)
• run the experiments (./experiment)
• analyze the resulting data (./analysis)

as well as the anonymized data from our study ./analysis/data

If you want to view our video stimuli:

• download the repository
• in predicting_attention/experiments/ go to the folder for the specific expeirment you're interested in
• unzip the zip file you find in that folder
• go into the unzipped folder and play the mp4 files you find there

If you want to run the experiment yourself (e.g. experiment 1):

• download the repository
• go into the experiments folder
• go into the folder for the experiment of interest (e.g. experiment_1)
• unzip the .zip folder there (e.g. STIM_SET_1.zip)
• double click on the html file (e.g experiment_1.html)
• the experiment should pop up in your default web browser :)

NOTE: To replicate our procedure, use Firefox version 44.0.2 (downloadable here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/44.0.2/) on Mac OS X 10.11. In different browsers & systems, the experiment may display differently. For example, in our experiment, the browser did not allow participants to end a trial without submitting answers, the browser displayed the experiment at around 60 frames per second, and so on. In different browsers, these and other aspects may differ. (E.g., Safari allows participants to bypass a trial without entering a response -- a significant departure in the design of the experiment).

NOTE: If the videos do not display and/or you instead see a blank white screen during the experiment, open the .html file in a text editor (e.g. Atom, TextEdit, etc.) and check if the file paths need updating