This can be done using a serial device called an I/O and some instruments. A USB to Serial converter like the Keyspan Highspeed Serial Adapter (Must be Highspeed)is used to plug in an old serial versions or use a straight USB like what the Telio uses.
There are a few devices out there. There is the EZIO and the HandyBoard as well as an old one called MacBrick. There is a real old one called ADBIO (OS9) and of course there is the Lego controller which offers a limited I/O and more advanced if you want to hack the Lego modules.
My research has showed that the most promising one seems to be the Telio by MakingThings from http://www.makingthings.com/ . This is a modular Input and Output system that has both analog and digital inputs and outputs. The Digital inputs can read a variable voltage or a signal converted to a variable which is what you would need. The analog ports are good for simple on/off signals. They offer a few different modules that can be piggy backed to allow for more devices to be connected. The Telio sends and receives serial wrapped commands. The site offers libraries in Flash/Director/C and Real Basic but so far none for Rev. You would have to wrap your own.
The Rev project would (at points chosen by you) monitor the Telio via the USB cale and any sensors you have plugged in and report back that info. You would then store that info with a tag for the slide you are on and later do some analysis with the data. The hard part is the wrapping of the serial commands.
HTH
Tom
On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
Would this product do what you want? http://www.bkohg.com/service_e.html
• OSX-examples for RealBasic 4.5, AppleScript, FileMaker 6 and 7, RagTime 5, 4th Dimension, Macromedia Director MX, Xcode, MaxMSP, CodeWarrior 7, LabView 7 and Java.
Bill Vlahos
On Apr 12, 2005, at 4:47 AM, David Glasgow wrote:
OK, Timothy Miller's experiences seem fairly typical. Monte's post hoc parsing is a bit more promising.
What I want to do is develop an existing rev project further. I have folks sequentially viewing and rating images as part of a psychological assessment of sex offenders. (Incidentally, after years of development, it is now working sweetly across platforms and is generating a fair bit of interest in the field. Couldn't have done it without Rev! - or this list, for that matter)
What I would like to do is capture physiological data while they are engaged in this task, to see if there is any association between, say GSR and Heart Rate, and the ratings made/images viewed. The problem of post hoc parsing is making sure that data is accurately matched to the corresponding image. Ideally, the data would be gathered during the slide show and parsed on the fly (or maybe in the gaps between images).
What is really frustrating is, as Elizabeth Dalton pointed out in her post last year, a somewhat 'new age' sounding game that costs $159 ( http://www.wilddivine.com ) does on Win and Mac what it seems impossible to do with equipment costing 10 times as much.
Best Wishes,
David Glasgow
http://www.i-psych.co.uk
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