School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

WebExp Experimental Software

Welcome to webexp.info - the home of WebExp, a unique system for conducting psychological experiments over the World Wide Web.

What's new?

• [08-11-2009] The new demos are online now, check the bottom of this page
• [30-10-2009] Andrey Finayev has made available AnlyseIt, a package for post-processing WebExp data
• [30-10-2009] WebExp 1.3 alpha is now available for download
• [30-10-2009] The source code of WebExp 1.3 alpha is now available for download
• [14-07-2008] A paper describing WebExp and evaluating its timing accuracy is now available for download

What's it all about?

• Introduction - find out what WebExp is and what it does
• Features - more precise details about what it can do
• Future work - find out what is planned for the future
• Useful links - find out more about WebExp, Java, XML, and online experiments

What am I supposed to do with it?

• Download - get WebExp and start using it
• User's manual - look here if you want to know how to use the system
• Getting Started - Florian Jaeger's tutorial and Laura Kertz's tutorial
• Information for developers - look here if you want to extend the system
• Mailing list - join the user mailing list here if you wish to receive news and support information
• Support archives - all messages sent to the mailing list mailing list will be archived here. We hope this will provide a useful repository for answers to common support questions.

Demonstrations (please note that WebExp requires Java 1.5.0_11 or above)

The following experiments are not meant as realistic designs, but are merely there to demonstrate the functionality of WebExp:

• WebExp Features
• WebExp Layouts

The following experiments use WebExp to implement some classical paradigms in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. These experiments ship with WebExp and can be adapted easily for your purposes:

• Magnitude Estimation
• Mental Rotation
• Stroop
• Self-Paced Reading

For links to genuine psychological experiments, many of which use WebExp, please visit:

• The Language Experiments Portal

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The development of WebExp was made possible by financial support from the Principal's e-Learning Fund of the University of Edinburgh and the Psychology Network of the Higher Education Academy. Further support was provided by a consulting contract with the Department of Psychology of the University of California at Santa Cruz.