Keystrokes often occur in much more rapid succession than RTs, and operating systems may interpret successive or concomitant keyboard events according to both automatic and user-based settings. We conclude that a Flash program in conjunction with AMT can be successfully used for running many experimental paradigms that rely on response times, although experimenters must understand the limitations of the method.Īlthough the precision and reliability of response time (RT) measurements performed via Web-based interfaces have been evaluated, sequences of keystrokes have never been investigated in detail. A questionnaire was used to investigate previously undescribed computer use habits of 100 participants on AMT. Power analyses were conducted to describe the number of participants needed to replicate these effects. The expected effects in these tasks were replicated. Next, a flanker task and a lexical decision task implemented in Adobe Flash were administered to participants recruited with AMT.
This experiment revealed some strengths and weaknesses of the timing capabilities of this method.
First, the timing properties of Adobe Flash were investigated using a phototransistor and two desktop computers running under several conditions mimicking those that may be present in research using AMT. This study investigated the viability of presenting stimuli and collecting response times using Adobe Flash to run ActionScript 3 code in conjunction with AMT. So far, most experiments conducted on AMT have focused on survey-type instruments because of difficulties inherent in running many experimental paradigms over the Internet. This use has garnered considerable interest from behavioral scientists. In short, why use very outdated illegal Flash versions for FBF animation when a superior professional industry-level legal open source and free option exists? I don't see the point.Crowdsourcing systems like Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) allow data to be collected from a large sample of people in a short amount of time. Proven in 2d feature-length animation production (for example, this one:) With excellent render options and great camera controls. Not to mention all the high-quality compositing options and visual effects.
OpenToonz is free, completely legal, is a modern app that works on the latest operating systems, and has great animation tools, good bitmap painting tools and vector painting tools, great colouring, and the onion-skinning is far better than the older versions of Flash.
I actually very much prefer to animate Frame-by-Frame in OpenToonz instead of the latest versions of Animate CC. That said, open source and free alternatives like OpenToonz are much more powerful and feature-rich, and pretty easy to learn and use as well. Well, I am not saying I don't understand why young animators tend to levitate towards old (hackable) versions of Flash.
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