InstantForum 2017-1 FinalMillisecond Forumshttps://forums.millisecond.com/Millisecond ForumsSun, 20 Sep 2026 05:01:19 GMT20https://forums.millisecond.com/Topic11175.aspx<p>Hello all,</p> <p>Does anyone know how to have a participant listen to an audio file in Inquisit WHILE they are browsing the internet and having their mouse-movements recorded? Essentially, I want the audio files to be the main target stimuli, with occasional internet browsing as the distractor activity/stimuli.</p> <p>Can Inquisit do something like this? Thank you any and all for your input!</p>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:56:51 GMTJames Roundshttps://forums.millisecond.com/Topic11179.aspx<p>Ha - yes I'll ask my NSA rep about those next he/she/it calls..</p> <p>Thanks for the response though - I understand it's an uncommon request to penetrate the software wall that was put up to get a precise experimental environment. File this away under 'Naturalistic stimuli' I suppose - we're interested in using simplified web-browsing (vs. no web-browsing) as a distractor condition during an attention task. We still want an experimental stimulus-delivery environment, but with the ability to allow the participant to engage in natural computer behavior (if I can use such a phrase). If others start asking for it too, then there might be justification for designing such a feature. Thanks again,</p> <p><br />James</p>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:56:51 GMTJames Roundshttps://forums.millisecond.com/Topic11178.aspx<p>[quote]What I really want to know is if it's possible for Inquisit to be running and presenting audio stimuli, and simply collect mouse-movement data, while allowing the user to engage freely with the rest of the computer environment?[/quote]</p> <p>No. In fact Inquisit's principal purpose is the exact opposite: block out the rest of the computer environment so Inquisit can deliver precise stimulus and response timing. Inquisit effectively tries to take over your computer for the time it's running.</p> <p>Seems what you are looking for is more along the lines of a keylogger* / computer activity monitor (of which there are many, benign as well as malicious). Plus you'll want to do some OS-level scripting for the background audio (not a huge problem).</p> <p>* I hear NSA has some nice ones. Perhaps they'll share? :)</p>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:35:23 GMTDavehttps://forums.millisecond.com/Topic11177.aspx<p>Thanks for the rapid response Dave! My initial request seemed more ambitious than it was, I suspect. What I really want to know is if it's possible for Inquisit to be running and presenting audio stimuli, and simply collect mouse-movement data, while allowing the user to engage freely with the rest of the computer environment? Forget about the web-browser part. Can the participant engage with the computer outside the Inquisit environment while in the middle of an experiment?</p> <p>Thank you so much for your thoughts on this!</p> <p>James</p>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:22:07 GMTJames Roundshttps://forums.millisecond.com/Topic11176.aspx<p>No, I don't think this can be done* (nor would I know of any ready-made software solution that would allow this).</p> <p>* As this would entail</p> <p>-&nbsp; somehow embedding a full-featured web browser into Inquisit</p> <p>- give Inquisit full access to the data gathered by that browser</p> <p>- and several other issues.</p>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:33:12 GMTDave