How to find (and build!) tools for running open, replicable experiments
Jonathan F. Kominsky
Has your experimental design ever been constrained by the tools you had available to present stimuli and collect responses? Have you ever had to re-create an experiment from scratch because the tools used for the original were expensive, proprietary, or obsolete? Open psychological science works best with open tools, but what tools exist, and where are there gaps? This session has two parts: First, what kinds of tools already exist that support open, rigorous, and replicable research in different subfields? This discussion may lead to a new resource to help researchers find the best tools for a given project. Second, what does it actually take to make a new open science tool for running experiments? I’ll talk from my own experience developing software tools for developmental psychology research, and the discussion will focus on how we as individuals and as a field can create the tools we need.