SMARTA (Subject-Mediated Automatic Remote Testing Apparatus) is an inexpensive do-it-yourself research apparatus for studying color vision and other behaviors in animals. This GitHub project contains Arduino and Android source code and binaries to build your own SMARTA. To learn more about SMARTA and get step-by-step instructions for building it, see these YouTube playlists:
- Building SMARTA
- UPDATE 3/3/19: You'll need to create OAuth 2.0 credentials in the Google API Console for the Android phone app as described here, and sign the APK. This must be done any time you change the APK (i.e. update the phone app). This is not shown in the YouTube tutorials, since Google required this after the videos were made.
- Using SMARTA
- Fixing SMARTA
Subject-Mediated Automatic Remote Testing Apparatus (SMARTA): an automated approach to streamline data collection and eliminate observer bias in a captive experimental context
Raymond Vagell 1*, Vance J. Vagell 2, Rachel L. Jacobs 3, James Gordon 4, Andrea L. Baden5, 6, 7
1 Animal Behaviour and Conservation Program, Department of Psychology, Hunter College of the City University of New York
2 Queens, New York, USA
3 Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University
4 Department of Psychology, Hunter College
5 Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York
6 Departments of Anthropology and Biology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
7 The New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
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