Research-first product decisions
Open Lab is designed around researcher workflows: clarity, control, and a participant experience that feels trustworthy.
About
A platform built to make online research feel straightforward.
Open Lab is an open-source platform designed to streamline online data collection for researchers. We focus on making it easy to go from an experimental idea to a participant-ready study—without sacrificing transparency or control.
Looking for step-by-step guides? Visit the documentation.
lab.js integration
Use lab.js to design tasks, export JSON, and run your study online with a clean upload-and-publish flow.
Privacy & transparency
Designed to support GDPR-minded research practices and transparent handling of participant data.
Collaboration and open science
Coordinate studies with collaborators and align with open science practices—without tool sprawl.
Built by
A working researcher, for working researchers
Dr. Yury Shevchenko
Postdoctoral Research Associate · Experimental Psychology & Internet Science, University of Konstanz, Germany
Yury holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Mannheim (2018, dissertation on the influence of mood on decision-making) and is currently a postdoc in the Experimental Psychology & Internet Science group at the University of Konstanz. His research spans online experiments, experience-sampling methodology, mobile sensor methods, and decision-making, with 25+ peer-reviewed publications. He created Open Lab to give researchers a complete, EU-hosted toolchain for running and managing online experiments. In building it he collaborated closely with Felix Henninger, creator of lab.js — the open-source study builder that powers Open Lab’s task design. Related projects he leads or contributes to include Samply (a notification scheduler used worldwide for ESM studies), SMAAT (an EU-hosted toolchain for smartphone-based studies), and contributions to MindHive (a citizen-science platform for brain and behaviour research).
Selected publications on Open Lab–relevant methods
- Shevchenko, Y. (2022). Open Lab: A web application for running and sharing online experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 54(6), 3118–3125.
- Henninger, F., Shevchenko, Y., Mertens, U. K., et al. (2022). lab.js: A free, open, online study builder. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 556–573.
- Reips, U.-D., & Shevchenko, Y. (2023). How to conduct online experiments. Sage.
Citation
Cite Open Lab in your research
If you use Open Lab in your research, please cite the article describing the platform.
Recommended citation
Shevchenko, Y. (2022). Open Lab: A web application for running and sharing online experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 54(6), 3118–3125. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01776-2
Want to collaborate or contribute?
If you’re interested in partnering, testing new features, or helping shape the platform, contact us—we’re building Open Lab with the research community.
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