Easily build mouse-tracking experiments with OpenSesame.

The Mousetrap package provides two plug-ins that implement mouse-tracking in OpenSesame. Both plug-ins offer different ways of implementing mouse-tracking:

The mousetrap_response plug-in tracks mouse movements while another stimulus (e.g., a sketchpad) is presented.

The mousetrap_form plug-in allows tracking of mouse movements in custom forms specified using OpenSesame script.

More information about each plug-in can be found in the corresponding helpfiles (as linked above). Besides, a number of example experiments that demonstrate the basic features of the plug-ins can be found in the examples folder.

Once data have been collected with the plug-ins, the data can be processed, analyzed and visualized using the mousetrap R package.

The Mousetrap plug-ins are developed by Pascal Kieslich and Felix Henninger. They are published under the GNU General Public License (version 3).

To install the plug-ins, please download the latest release. Once downloaded (and unzipped), the plug-ins can be installed by copying the content of the plugins folder into one of the folders that OpenSesame searches for plug-ins (e.g., under Windows the "share\opensesame_plugins" folder in the OpenSesame installation directory). More information about installing plug-ins can be found on the OpenSesame homepage.

Mousetrap extends the many useful features of OpenSesame developed by the OpenSesame development team led by Sebastiaan Mathôt. Mousetrap uses modified icons from the Moka Icon Theme (by Sam Hewitt). We thank Anja Humbs for testing a development version of the plug-ins.