This page describes how to generate IBEX items from a CSV design file.

Format of the CSV file

The method described on this page presupposes that your CSV spreadsheet has one of the two general formats below.

Example

Sentence	PictureLeft	PictureRight
The dog is tall	bigdog.png	highdog.png
The cat is big	tallcat.png	highcat.png

Example of a group design

With the table below, each participant will only see trials corresponding to either the A or the B rows.

Group	Sentence	PictureLeft	PictureRight
A	The dog is tall	bigdog.png	highdog.png
B	The dog is big	talldog.png	highdog.png
B	The cat is tall	bigcat.png	highcat.png
A	The cat is big	tallcat.png	highcat.png

Create the IBEX items

Upload your CSV file under chunk_includes in your Ibex project and use the command PennController.Template to generate trials from your spreadsheet.

If your spreadsheet file contains a Label column, the generated items will be labeled accordingly (unless explicitly labeled otherwise). If the file contains no column named so and no explicit label is given to the items, they will be labeled Item-N, where N is a number.

[js try=”data”]
PennController.Template(
row => PennController(
defaultImage
.settings.size(80, 80)
,
newText( “sentence” , row.Sentence )
.print()
,
newCanvas( “images” , 200 , 100 )
.settings.add( 10 , 10 , newImage(“leftImage”, row.PictureLeft) )
.settings.add( 110 , 10 , newImage(“rightImage”, row.PictureRight) )
.print()
,
newSelector( “choice” )
.settings.add( getImage(“leftImage”) , getImage(“rightImage”) )
.settings.log()
.wait()
)
);
[/js]

See the tutorial page for more.