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creating a email submit form -- is it possible?

Last post 07-23-2008, 7:03 AM by Dave. 1 replies.
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  •  06-15-2008, 7:58 PM 1677

    creating a email submit form -- is it possible?

    I am running a script on the web. After having participants complete all the tasks, I would like to have a submit form at the end where particpants can fill in their names and addresses so that a token for participation can be sent to them. I do not want this information submitted to the data file but rather emailed to me seperately. Is there a way of creating such a script on Inquisit?  If not, I am curious as to how other researchers have handled participant compensation when particpants fill out materials online.
  •  07-23-2008, 7:03 AM 1741 in reply to 1677

    Re: creating a email submit form -- is it possible?

    This post has been hanging out unanswered for a while now. Hoping it's not too late, I'll venture a response. Normally, you wouldn't actually use Inquisit to achieve what you want. Instead, after a participant has completed your Inquisit web experiment, you'd redirect his browser to another web server hosting your submit form. So, you'd need access to a webserver with some SQL and/or PHP functionality and set up a HTML-form (plus maybe a database) to have participants submit or mail their contact data. I suspect that this is not exactly what you had in mind.

    There might also be a way to mimick something like this solely using Inquisit: You'd need a total of 3 experimental scripts. (1) The web-experiment that you already have up and running. (2) A script presenting an entry form via the <openended> element or some survey-type question formats. Make sure to set

    <data>
    / file = "mailto:youremail@yourdomain.net"
    </data>


    for the second script, so the data will be mailed to you. (3) A third script that does nothing but run the two other scripts in batch-mode. For example:

    <batch>
    / file="webexperiment.exp"
    / file="submitform.exp"
    </batch>

    The third script is the one you'd have to register via the millisecond web interface.

    Be aware that this approach will definitely compromise anonymity of your participants - if that's an issue. The subject id for all the scripts will be the same for a particular participant, so the personal data collected via the submission form could easily be matched to the collected experimental data.

    Best,
    ~Dave
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