A Smartphone goes everywhere with its owner, it is fiddled with on the toilet, and it moves up and down with the springs of the mattress during equally intimate moments. They come with a tonne of sensors and ports for the addition of extra sensors and devices. Their processors are powerful enough to deliver excellent temporal stimulus/response control and recording. It is not surprising they are said to be on the cusp of revolutionizing research into human behaviour.

We have designed a web based platform which allows anyone to design their own experiment. All experiments created on our platform can be ‘played’ by PsyApp. Essentially we remove the need for researchers to create a costly bespoke App for their research.  PsyApp has basic logic and handles anything from basic questionnaires to complex cognitive designs. PsyApp can currently capture reaction times, x,y coordinates of screen touches, screen pressure, handset movement direction and intensity, GPS data and the participant can be asked to take a photo or make a sound recording of their environment.

The seminar will discuss how Smartphones can be implemented in human behavioural science (from neuroscience to sociology) and present projects which are currently underway.