system_overview:features
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Features
General features
- subject pool organization
- freely customizable participant profile form
- all configured fields are searchable, can be conditioned on in eligibility criteria, and can be included in reports/lists etc.
- multiple configurable participant statuses
- “browsable” subject pool statistics
- experiments
- support for multiple laboratories, multiple sub-subjectpools, multiple experimenters, multiple experiment types, multiple experiment classes (tags) to classify experiments, multiple configurable participation statuses
- ORSEE recruitment report provides details on session organisation, eligibility and recruitment, as well as subject pool statistics at pool, eligibility, and participation level
- experiment organisation
- monitoring of session enrollment status
- extremely flexible participant query form (for search or eligibility criteria)
- random subset selection out of filtered subject pool
- permanent queries (that check eligibility criteria against newly registering subjects)
- experimenters are informed about session's state by automated e-mails
- reputation system, with number of no-shows as selection criterium, and configurable automated subject exclusion based on reputation score
- participant interface
- subjects are able to manage their own account
- access either through token/URL or username(=email address)/password
- specific enrolment page for access from mobile devices
- emails and communication
- all outgoing emails are based on templates that are freely editable
- invitation, enrolment confirmation, and session reminder emails can be customized to experiment
- calendar and session's participants lists in printable format (pdf)
- regular e-mails with experiment calendar and subject pool statistics to experimenters
- session sign-up confirmation e-mails
- rule-based automated session reminder mailing
- automated warning e-mail to subjects on no-show
- files
- upload / download section for experiment-related files
- multiple configurable file types
- flexible access system to own and other's files (upload, download, delete)
- other
- sophisticated access privilege management, with freely configurable user types
- multiple language support for experimenters and subjects, unicode encoding throughout, including customizable date/time formatting
- payment module allows to track payments to participants, with multiple budgets and payment types (cash, gift vouchers, etc.), as well as budget reports
- email module allows to retrieve emails from any POP3/IMPA account, relate them to participants/experiments/sessions, and to assign them to specific researchers for processing
- ethics module allows to enter details of ethics approval and expiration, and warns when sessions are planned after expiration date
- easily configurable via web interface, with many configuration option
- laboratory bookings for non-experimental events or experiments not organised with ORSEE, multiple configurable event categories
- structured public and internal experiment calendar for sessions and event bookings, exportin ical format for inclusion in personal calendars like gCal etc.
- data import function to migrate from older ORSEE versions
- webpage design customizable through styles and colors directly editable in web interface
- content of public webpage (pages for welcome, rules, privacy policy, legal statement, as well as FAQs) freely configurable
- open source software
Technical features
- LAMP application
- runs on Linux (or Windows or Mac or …)
- Apache webserver recommended (but IIS and others work as well)
- uses MySQL database
- implemented in PHP
- Data is completely separated from the application, application and data reside on your own server.
- Recommended system: Linux or MacOSX. However, ORSEE also runs on Windows systems with some adaptations.
- Further requirements: PHP on command line, webalizer for usage statistics, cron daemon (or replacement) for regular jobs.
system_overview/features.txt · Last modified: 2023/04/12 14:20 by 127.0.0.1