Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are facing unprecedented challenges that affect our ability to run in-person experiments. With mandated social distancing in a controlled laboratory environment, many researchers are searching for alternative options to conduct research, such as online experimentation. However, online experimentation comes at a cost; learning online tools for building and publishing psychophysics experiments can be complicated and time-consuming. This learning cost is unfortunate because researchers typically only need to use a small percentage of these tools’ capabilities, but they still have to deal with these systems’ complexities (e.g., complex graphical user interfaces or difficult programming languages). Furthermore, after the experiment is built, researchers often have to find an online platform compatible with the tool they used to program the experiment. To simplify and streamline the online process of programming and hosting an experiment, I have created SimplePhy. SimplePhy can save researchers’ time and energy by allowing them to create a study in just a few clicks. All researchers have to do is select among a few experiment settings and upload the stimuli. SimplePhy is able to run most psychophysical perception experiments that require mouse clicks and button presses. In addition to collecting online behavioral data, SimplePhy can also collect information regarding the estimated viewing distance between the participant and the monitor, the screen size, and the experimental trial’s timing—features not always offered in other online platforms. Overall, SimplePhy is a simple, free, open-source tool (code can be found here: https://gitlab.com/malago/simplephy) aimed to help labs conduct their experiments online.

由于 COVID-19 大流行，研究人员面临着前所未有的挑战，这些挑战影响了我们进行面对面实验的能力。由于在受控实验室环境中强制保持社交距离，许多研究人员正在寻找进行研究的替代方案，例如在线实验。但是，在线实验是有代价的；学习用于构建和发布心理物理学实验的在线工具可能既复杂又耗时。这种学习成本是不幸的，因为研究人员通常只需要使用这些工具的一小部分功能，但他们仍然必须处理这些系统的复杂性（例如，复杂的图形用户界面或困难的编程语言）。此外，实验建成后，研究人员通常必须找到一个与他们用来编写实验程序的工具兼容的在线平台。为了简化和简化编程和托管实验的在线过程，我创建了 SimplePhy。SimplePhy 只需单击几下即可创建研究，从而节省研究人员的时间和精力。所有研究人员所要做的就是在几个实验设置中进行选择并上传刺激。SimplePhy 能够运行大多数需要点击鼠标和按下按钮的心理物理感知实验。除了收集在线行为数据外，SimplePhy 还可以收集有关参与者与监视器之间的估计观看距离、屏幕尺寸和实验试验时间的信息——其他在线平台并不总是提供这些功能。总的来说，SimplePhy 是一个简单、免费、