In response to Prompt One (1) of the HTHMA Internship Blog for Week 2 of Internship...
A technical/skill challenge that I am faced with in the course of my internship project is my knowledge of computer programming. For my project, I will be assisting Erik Newman, postdoctorate fellow, and Connor McCabe, Staff Research Assistant (more like Manager) in creating an emotional/social examination for the Longitudinal Research Study that will be starting in February. It will test children's ability to recognize facial emotions and social awareness by asking them to match emotions to faces provided by the Radboud Facial Database (RaFD). However, since the test will be an interactive computer examination, all three of us will have to learn a few of the basics of "Presentation," which is a "high-precision program for stimulus delivery and experimental control for behavioral and physiological experiments" made by Neurobehavioral Systems. Presentation allows you to create your own examinations that can be presented on a touchscreen to evaluate children (or adults), but to program a new test we first need some basic knowledge about writing "scenarios" and using HTML and the other tech language that is used in the program. I'm not a tech kind of guy at all, so it will require quite a bit of effort and provide, hopefully, a great learning experience.
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