languagelearningexperiment

An online experiment for a friend.

rails generate scaffold IterativeChain chain:text num_users:integer rails generate scaffold UserEntry pairs:text chain_id:integer

MVC: Models: iterative_chains, user_entries Views: experiment_intro, training, testing Controllers: manage iterative chains, manage user entry

Table of Iterative Chains

Each chain:

• contains a chain
• contains a Boolean checking whether it's locked or not
• contains a time stamp of when it was locked if locked
• length of chain

UX

1. User clicks yes on taking experiment

figure out which chains are free

• Check each chain for whether any should be unlocked
• check again what's unlocked

if none are free, tell user too bad

figure out which chain to assign

• check lengths of free chain, choose shortest

assign chain

• lock chain
• assign user a cookie
• record time stamp

2. User gets directed to training page

grab latest entry of chain

display chain

3. User gets directed to testing

determine whether entry is sem->phone or phone->sem

display images and audio in random order

check whether everything has been matched