Labvanced Features Overview
Push the boundaries of contemporary research with Labvanced's direct OpenAI Integrations. Effortlessly conduct next-level experiments by seamlessly incorporating powerful AI capabilities like text-to-text, audio generation, and image generation directly within your controlled experimental settings.
This feature allows researchers to dynamically create and manipulate stimuli in real-time based on participant responses, enabling innovative studies into human-AI interaction, creative processes, and dynamic adaptive cognition.
Unlock unparalleled integration and automation with Labvanced via our API options. Designed for researchers seeking advanced control, utilizing APIs allows you to programmatically manage every aspect of your study, from securely fetching real-time data and sending it directly to your servers or by establishing bi-directional communication between two specified servers, other online services or local devices such as EEGs for customized experimental control. By having the option for full programmatic access, our API options allow you to utilize Labvanced in a manner that is tailored precisely to your unique workflow and complies with organizational-level needs and data protocols.
Capture rich verbal responses with professional-grade fidelity using Labvanced Audio Recordings, all while prioritizing security. Easily integrate audio input into your studies to gather everything from short verbal reactions to minutes-long narratives. Researchers have full control over output quality, with options for compatible MP3 or lossless WAV formats and flexible bitrates (128 kbps or 320 kbps). This robust feature ensures clear, stable recordings essential for linguistic, developmental, and qualitative research, with all data stored in a GDPR-compliant manner to safeguard participant privacy.
Introduce powerful visual and interactive elements into your studies using the Labvanced Canvas Drawing feature. This flexible tool allows participants to directly create, draw, or manipulate graphical inputs within the experiment, capturing rich, qualitative data streams. Popular in educational research, creativity studies, and multimedia assessments, the Canvas Drawing element enables researchers to seamlessly integrate free-form expression and visual problem-solving tasks, opening new avenues for exploring cognitive processes and visual communication skills.
Build sophisticated, cutting-edge experiments without writing a single line of code using Labvanced's intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Our visual study builder empowers researchers to create complex psychological and neuroscience tasks, from intricate timing sequences to dynamic stimuli presentation and advanced counterbalancing. Focus entirely on your experimental design and methodology, not on programming headaches, ensuring rapid development and deployment of professional-grade studies across all devices.
Maintain rigorous scientific standards in your research by implementing various strategies utilizing Labvanced's Control Checks. Our platform has the capacity to systematically monitor the participant's hardware (like screen size), provides the tools to assess the testing environment (including lighting conditions), and verify genuine engagement (with bot and attention checks), all while having the technological processes in place to ensure precise stimuli presentation timing. These comprehensive and powerful capabilities address common remote research challenges, ensuring your captured data is methodologically sound and ready for publication.
Seamlessly manage and collect data for your study with Labvanced's flexible Data Collection options. Gain fine-grained control over study access by creating multiple unique participation links, customizing them with specific URL parameters, and securing access with passwords. Labvanced integrates directly with all major crowdsourcing platforms (Prolific, CloudResearch, and Sona Systems, and more) allowing you to deploy your studies and capture data exactly how you need it.
Streamline the transition from data collection to analysis with Labvanced's powerfully customizable Data Export System. Our system offers extensive customization options, allowing researchers to download data in widely compatible formats (CSV, XLSX, TSV) tailored precisely to their analysis workflow. Easily consolidate all data types—from continuous time-series variables to binary media like audio/video and webcam eye-tracking—into unified files or separated logs. Configure data structures down to the detail, choosing whether to organize files by session, or split them into subject-specific directories, ensuring the collected data is structured, complete, and instantly ready for processing.
Labvanced ensures your research data is protected by multiple layers of cutting-edge security and full GDPR compliance. All data is safeguarded by SSL Encryption and stored on redundant servers within ISO/IEC 27001-certified EU data centers. Our commitment to security is externally validated through Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), and detailed Technical & Organizational Measures (TOM) are in place to minimize risks, giving you complete confidence in the integrity and privacy of your collected information. Custom data processing agreements are also available upon request.
Take control of your dedicated lab environment with the Labvanced Desktop App. Designed for research requiring the highest level of control and fidelity, the app guarantees stable, professional-grade data capture by enabling complex studies to run entirely offline, eliminating dependency on internet connectivity. Furthermore, it is the essential gateway for seamlessly integrating and synchronizing specialized external hardware, such as EEG and other physiological monitoring devices, ensuring unmatched precision for your most demanding multi-modal experiments.
Transform static tasks into rich, interactive experiences using Labvanced's Drag & Drop functionalities. Easily design experiments that require participants to actively move, sort, or classify objects on the screen according to your instructions. This engaging capability is perfect for testing spatial reasoning or categorization, and when paired with continuous Mouse Tracking, it provides a powerful, dual-layered dataset that reveals both the final outcome and the full process of decision-making.
Unlock unprecedented behavioral data collection directly through a standard webcam. Labvanced's cutting-edge & peer-reviewed eye-tracking technology transforms any participant's computer into a professional-grade eye-tracking lab, requiring zero specialized hardware. Easily measure fixation points, gaze duration, define AOIs and more, whether you are conducting lab-based or large-scale studies entirely online.
Leverage the expertise of the Labvanced team with our comprehensive Labvanced Services. We offer professional, hands-on support for every stage of your research, including expert Study Building, targeted Participant Recruitment, and dedicated Custom Support for your most demanding or time-sensitive projects. Treat our team as an extension of your lab; we take the operational complexities into our hands, guaranteeing the smooth, professional execution of your study from conception to data collection.
Manage complex, multi-session research with Labvanced's robust capabilities for handling Longitudinal Designs. Our platform allows you to precisely schedule and deploy experiments and tasks across days, weeks, months, or even years. Automatically track and assign participants to subsequent sessions, send automated and customized reminders, while ensuring data integrity across all time points, simplifying the logistics of long-term studies and enabling high-fidelity developmental, clinical, or intervention research.
Seamlessly integrate specialized hardware into your online and in-lab studies with Labvanced's LSL (LabStreamingLayer) integration. By supporting this standard external protocol, Labvanced is instantly compatible with dozens of devices, enabling precise, synchronized data streams from equipment like EEG, GSR, and dedicated eye-trackers. This feature allows you to combine your behavioral data with physiological recordings in real-time, providing a robust, convenient solution for complex multi-modal research that requires professional-grade hardware synchronization.
Turn any smartphone or tablet into a powerful remote data collection tool with the Labvanced Mobile App. Designed for flexibility and massive outreach, the app allows researchers to deploy engaging, fully standardized studies directly to participants' personal devices, maximizing ecological validity. Crucially, the Mobile App supports complete offline functionality, ensuring uninterrupted data capture and consistent performance, regardless of network availability, making large-scale, field-based, and longitudinal studies simple and reliable.
Unlock a new dimension of cognitive data with Labvanced Mouse Tracking. Our system captures the precise, continuous stream of X and Y coordinates as participants interact with your tasks, delivering unparalleled behavioral detail. This high-resolution data integrates perfectly with dynamic research designs, allowing you to record and analyze complex cursor movements during interactive processes such as dragging elements, adjusting sliders, or hovering over options. Transform standard input into powerful spatial patterns that illuminate the subtle biases and complexities of the decision process.
Expand your research impact globally with Labvanced's dedicated Multi-Lingual Studies capabilities. Easily translate every part of your experiment—including all text, instructions, and stimuli—directly within the platform to create parallel language versions. This functionality allows you to manage all language-specific versions of your study within a single project, simplifying deployment and ensuring a consistent, localized participant experience essential for rigorous, large-scale cross-cultural and international research.
Implement complex social and interaction studies using Labvanced’s Multi-User feature. This capability allows multiple participants (dyads, groups, or teams) to engage simultaneously within the same synchronized experiment, whether locally or remotely. Design tasks that require coordination, communication, or competitive interactions, ensuring every participant's timing and responses are precisely captured and linked throughout the experiment.
Streamline all participant communication and tracking directly within your study using Labvanced's dedicated Participant Management feature. This central management hub provides a clear overview of every subject's status, allows you to track their progress, and crucially, gives you full control over customized email communications. By connecting your own SMTP server, you can manage all study-related messaging—especially essential for scheduling and sending reminders in complex longitudinal research—all from one convenient, integrated location.
Achieve methodological rigor with Labvanced's peer-reviewed, millisecond-precise Timing technologies. Our platform employs advanced mechanisms to precisely monitor and control stimulus onset, duration, and participant responses. This commitment to accuracy, validated through published research, ensures that the temporal resolution of your data, providing a foundation of absolute reliability for critical reaction time and temporal-sequence studies.
Go beyond the visual builder by adding custom complexity with Labvanced's native support for JS/CSS/HTML code. For researchers with specific technical needs, our platform allows you to seamlessly inject custom code directly into your experimental logic and stimuli presentation. This powerful option provides ultimate flexibility, enabling the creation of bespoke interfaces, specialized functions, and unique interactions that extend the platform's capabilities to perfectly match the precise demands of your highly innovative research designs.
Collect rich contextual data with Labvanced's advanced Questionnaire capabilities. Unlike basic survey platforms, our questionnaires sit directly within your precise experimental flow, allowing you to collect subjective ratings or psychological metrics before, during, or after specific tasks. Crucially, the responses can dynamically trigger changes in the experiment, enabling a sophisticated level of conditional branching and variable control that transforms your study from a simple data collection tool into a powerful, responsive research environment.
Ensure flawless experimental integrity for every scenario with Labvanced's advanced Randomization and Balancing System. Offering a comprehensive suite of powerful options—including nested randomization, within-subject counterbalancing, and complex between-subject assignments—our platform allows you to precisely control the presentation of every variable. Whatever your design complexity, Labvanced ensures meticulous control, eliminating biases and ensuring your results are methodologically sound and ready for publication.
Go beyond numerical data with Labvanced's Screen Recordings, providing a critical visual window into participant behavior. This feature allows you to capture a synchronized video of the participant's screen and interactions throughout the experimental session. From visually confirming task engagement and verifying successful navigation of complex stimuli to gaining qualitative insight into how participants process information, the screen recording option has many use cases and ultimately enhances the interpretability and validity of your quantitative results.
Facilitate seamless team science with Labvanced's Shared Access and Collaboration features. Easily invite colleagues to your study to work together on design, build, and refinement, enabling efficient, collaborative research development. While promoting teamwork, the system maintains strict security by reserving critical privileges—such as the ability to delete the study or its collected data—for the original study owner, ensuring data integrity and project stability are protected throughout the entire collaboration.
Deploy any stimulus imaginable with precise control using Labvanced's advanced Stimuli Presentation system. Our platform supports all media types—including images, sound, video, text, and questionnaires—allowing you to present them exactly how you need, down to the millisecond. Easily define complex conditional logic to control when, where, and under which specific experimental scenario each stimulus appears, ensuring meticulous control over your design variables and maximizing the integrity of your experimental conditions.
Integrate voice interaction and analysis into your research with Labvanced Transcription. Capture participant verbal responses and instantly convert them into text right inside the experiment. Researchers can immediately leverage these transcriptions for faster manual analysis or, for next-level experimental design. Furthermore, utilize the transcribed output as the core mechanism for creating dynamic, next-generation voice-controlled experiments that react directly to the participant's speech.
Integrate dynamic, real-time social interaction into your research using Labvanced's Video Conferencing feature. Seamlessly embed live video and audio communication directly into your experiments, allowing participants to interact with each other, a confederate, or the researcher. This powerful capability is essential for conducting ecologically valid social, communication, and collaborative studies, capturing both precise behavioral data and the rich qualitative context of face-to-face interaction.
Enhance your behavioral analysis with Labvanced's Video Recording feature, backed by Labvanced's GDPR-compliant security. Seamlessly capture live footage of your participants via their webcam, providing a critical visual layer to your study data. This allows for detailed post-hoc analysis of non-verbal cues, facial expressions, and engagement, with the resulting video automatically synchronized to the millisecond with all recorded experimental events, ensuring precise contextual coding and maximizing the depth of your research findings.