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christinahaywood	christinahaywood posted 8 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 12, Visits: 59	Hello, I would like to perform a tapping manipulation in which the stimulus is presented on a computer screen (programmed using Inquisit) and the tapping response times are recorded using a tablet (Microsoft Surface 3). How might I go about doing this to ensure that Inquisit both presents the stimulus on a computer and receives response information from a tablet? Thank you, Christina
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	If I understood you correctly, you want a regular computer serve as the "display" and have a separate tablet (the Surface) serve as the "input device". Correct? If so, I'm afraid I don't see a way to do this. Edit: I should add that -- if the tablet in question is a Surface Pro, i.e., if it has in Intel x86 processor and runs a full Windows version -- you should actually be able to install and run Inquisit 4 on the tablet. Stimuli would be displayed on the tablet's screen and input could be taken via the touchscreen by setting /inputdevice=touchscreen. Under Inquisit 4 (and below), touchscreen input essentially works the same as mouse input, i.e., you can define a tap on an on-screen object as response: <trial mytrial> / stimulusframes = [1=a] / inputdevice = touchscreen / validresponse = (a) </trial> <shape a> / shape = rectangle / color = blue / size = (10%, 10%) / position = (50%, 75%) </shape> Edited 8 Years Ago by Dave
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christinahaywood	christinahaywood posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 12, Visits: 59	Thank you, Dave. Just to be sure, there is no way that Inquisit running on a tablet can be synced with Inquisit running on a computer?
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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	For syncing the two devices -- both executing Inquisit -- you would have to have them communicate them via their respective serial or parallel ports. To the best of my knowledge, getting a parallel port in a tablet should be difficult (if not impossible). What may be possible -- if the tablet has USB ports -- is to attach a USB-to-serial adapter to it and use that to send TTL signals from the tablet to the computer running Inquisit. Hope this helps.
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