Custom task development
Have your task built by the Open Lab team.
If the task your study needs is not in the Task Library, or you need a library task with your own stimuli, the Open Lab team can build it in lab.js. The task is tested before delivery and comes with a report of what was checked.
Adapt a library task
€250 fixed price
Delivery: 5 working days
A paradigm from the Task Library with your own stimuli, response keys, timings, instructions or language. Covers up to about 100 stimulus items or one language; larger adaptations are priced as a standard paradigm or quoted.
Build a standard paradigm
€650 fixed price
Delivery: 2 weeks
A published paradigm that is not yet in the library, built from the original method description.
Custom design
€80 per hour, quoted in advance
Delivery: agreed in the quote
A new procedure, several linked tasks, or unusual response modes. You receive a written quote before any work starts.
Prices for universities and non-profit research, excluding VAT where it applies. Delivery times count from your approval of the written specification.
What you receive
The task in your account
A lab.js task added to your Open Lab tasks, ready to add to a study. The lab.js file is yours to download and edit in the lab.js builder.
A validation report
Trial structure and counts, a check of the stimulus and response timings, a codebook of the data columns the task records, and a check of what is recorded when a participant does not respond.
A preview before you accept
A preview link to run the task yourself. Two rounds of changes within the agreed specification are included.
How an order works
- 1
Send a request
Describe the task below, or name the paper whose method it should follow.
- 2
Agree the specification
We reply with a written specification: trials, stimuli, responses, timings and data columns, with the fixed price or a quote.
- 3
Build and test
The task is built in lab.js and tested with the same automated checks as the tasks in the Task Library, then reviewed by the Open Lab team.
- 4
Preview, accept, pay
You run the preview and request changes. Once you accept the task, you receive the invoice.
Request a task
Sending a request does not commit you to anything. We reply by email with a specification and a price.
Questions
- Who owns the task?
- You can use, modify and publish the task without restriction. Unless you opt out in the form, Open Lab may add a generic version of the paradigm to the Task Library, without your stimuli, instructions or other study materials.
- Can the task use my own images, audio or word lists?
- Yes. You send the materials with the specification and confirm that you have the right to use them. They are used only for your task.
- Do you need any participant data?
- No. Building and testing a task does not involve participant data.
- Which plan do I need to run the task?
- The task runs in your studies like any other task, within the limits of your current plan. The service itself does not require a subscription. See plans
- How do I pay?
- By invoice to you, your lab or your institution, payable by bank transfer, or by card. A purchase order number can be added to the invoice. Prices are for universities and non-profit research and exclude VAT where it applies. Companies receive a quote.
- What if you are fully booked?
- We take up to 4 orders a month. If we cannot start within a week, we tell you the earliest start date before you commit.
Something else? Write to info@open-lab.online.