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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[apologies for cross-postings]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are very excited to announce the first official release of PennController, a new tool for web-based experiments using Ibex, developed by Jeremy Zehr in Florian Schwarz’s lab, along with a website providing
documentation, a tutorial, and example experiments. Details below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Florian Schwarz & Jeremy Zehr<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">PennController</span></b></a></p>
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<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:139.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">An
<a href="http://spellout.net/ibexfarm/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">Ibex</span></b></a> library for versatile
<b>online experiments</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:139.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Instant free hosting</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> on
<a href="http://spellout.net/ibexfarm/"><span style="color:#1155CC">Ibexfarm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:139.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Simple code
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">allowing<b> flexible task structure<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:139.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Free</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">,
<a href="https://github.com/PennController/penncontroller"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">open-source</span></b></a><b>,
</b>and <b>extendible</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:139.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Full
<a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/wiki/documentation/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">documentation</span></b></a>,
<a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/wiki/00-tutorial/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">tutorial</span></b></a> and examples<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:139.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Compatible with any recruitment platform<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Online collection of experimental data is becoming increasingly common in linguistics and other fields, and allows for rapid collection of
large amounts of data, speeding up behavioral research and pre-testing, e.g., for acquisition or neuroscience studies. However, experiment implementation options are largely quite limited in what they can do, or very expensive, resulting in many researchers
creating their own code for custom-solutions. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><a href="http://spellout.net/ibexfarm/login"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple">Ibex</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> is a free, javascript-based
platform for running experiments online, developed by Alex Drummond to conduct common text-based, psycho-linguistic tasks, including self-paced reading and rating studies.
</span><a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple">PennController</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> is an extension library developed by
</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/jeremyezehr/home"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Jeremy Zehr</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> within a project in
</span><a href="https://www.florianschwarz.net/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Florian Schwarz</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">’s
</span><a href="http://lab.florianschwarz.net/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">lab</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. It provides a versatile and user-friendly tool to implement more complex experimental
task paradigms, with a wide range of dynamic and interactive features (e.g., visual stimuli, flexible, multi-stage trial structure, response feedback, scripted/ timed events, playing audio and video).
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">PennController uses a stream-lined code interface requiring no javascript skills. It allows you to combine your own task template with a spreadsheet
providing item-specific information. Combined with the free hosting offered by </span>
<a href="http://spellout.net/ibexfarm/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Ibexfarm</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> and templates that can be directly imported from github, posting simple experiments
online just takes </span><a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/download/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">a few simple steps</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">See the
</span><a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">PennController website</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> for full details. For questions and feedback,
use the </span><a href="https://lab.florianschwarz.net/PennController/forums/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">forum</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> or write to
</span><a href="mailto:penncontroller@lab.florianschwarz.net"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">penncontroller@lab.florianschwarz.net</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Reference</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">:
</span><span lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Zehr, J., & Schwarz, F. (2018).
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">PennController for Internet Based Experiments (IBEX).
</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MD832"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white">https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MD832</span></a></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Acknowledgments</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">This project has been made possible by a grant from Penn’s University Research Foundation, titled ‘</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Building
a Comprehensive Library for Online Experiments in IBEX.’</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Initial development of preliminary versions of many of the tools that are part of PennController took place as part of work
on NSF-grant BCS-1349009 to Florian Schwarz.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Florian Schwarz<br>
Associate Professor & Undergraduate Chair<br>
UPenn Linguistics<br>
Room 311C<br>
3401 Walnut Street<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Phone: +1-215-898-8183<br>
Fax: +1-215-573-2091<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://florianschwarz.net">http://florianschwarz.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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