Joystick direction as response & RT

Nick ndlange at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 20:02:01 UTC 2010


I can certainly forgive it, but unfortunately that's not the problem.
I can get E-Prime to recognize the joystick and record certain
responses (e.g. button click and concomitant RT), but I can't get it
to record the direction of first movement and the RT of that response.

On Feb 1, 11:00 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope you can forgive me if this is is a really silly question but:
> did you add a 'joystick' to the devices in the experiment properties?
> (e-prime logo at the top of your experiment tree).
>
> On Feb 1, 5:15 pm, Nick <ndla... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
>
> > I am trying to interface a Logitech Attack3 joystick with E-Prime. So
> > far I have only had limited success although I think it should be
> > pretty simple to do what I need.
>
> > On each trial, the participants will have to respond to the final
> > slide with a forward or backward movement of the joystick (depending
> > on the trial type). All I need is 1) for E-Prime to record the
> > Reaction Time of when the the push or pull of the joystick is
> > initiated (in correspondence to the onset of the final slide for each
> > trial) and 2) for the direction (up or down) of the first joystick
> > movement to be recorded to the data file.
>
> > It seems like this should be pretty standard, but I can't find any
> > code that addresses it. Is there some code you might know of to do
> > this type of thing?
>
> > Also, I did read through previous posts attempting to solve this
> > problem with continuous sampling of the joystick X-Y coordinates, but
> > I couldn't get the posted code to work out.  Although I don't like
> > this solution quite as much for my purposes, any help with how to
> > continuously sample the X-Y coordinates would also be very
> > appreciated.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Nick

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