FOLERPA: Online Tool for Perceptual Experimentation

This project aims to provide researchers with a range of online integrated resources which enable carrying out perceptual experimentation while employing a user-friendly, interactive, and flexible graphical interface that does not require researchers to be knowledgeable about programming.

Currently, FOLERPA is comprised of four modules that allow researchers to fully develop the experimental process: a creation module, where tests can be built interactively, step-by-step; a dissemination module, which allows researchers to distribute the perceptual tests among the participants in the experiment by means of a URL (the URL allows participants to access and perform the tests in FOLErPa); an administration module, which allows researchers to work with already created tests; and an analysis module, where researchers can download the data and results obtained after the participants have completed the test.

The project’s most immediate lines of action include: extending the range of perceptual tests and experimental paradigms that can be carried out with FOLERPA; incorporating images and video into the experimental design; and implementing a module for the basic descriptive analysis of perceptual tests.