Announcement: migration to the new Open Lab platformWe are gradually moving from the current Open Lab platform at open-lab.online to the new Open Lab platform at research.open-lab.online (for researchers) and app.open-lab.online (for participants). New studies should be created on the new platform. Detailed migration information is available in the announcement on the main page of the old platform at https://open-lab.online/ and at research.open-lab.online/migration.
Introduction

Welcome to Open Lab – a platform for running online experiments! We are glad to have you here. This information is for researchers, so please first register as a researcher. Registration is simple and only requires an email and a password.

Navigation

After registering as a researcher, you can explore the available tasks or run your own study. The navigation menu in the header contains the links to the three main steps you will have to follow to conduct an online study.

    Tasks Browse available tasks and upload your own task

    Studies Set up your study

    Data Review and download collected data

Enter the name of the task you want to search for in the Search tasks field.

Only one study can be activated at a time. If you have more than one study, you can switch between them by using the "Choose a study" drop-down menu on the right.

Under "Account", you can edit your name, email address, and preferred language. Open Lab currently supports English, German, and Russian.

Tutorials

Tutorial in English

Tutorial in German

Citation

If you use Open Lab, you can cite it as:

Shevchenko, Y. (2022). Open Lab: A Web application for running and sharing online experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01776-2

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