I am using MediaLaba and DirectRT to conduct a study. The first part of the study is pretty basic, and involves completing some surveys. I have created a responses.xls file and a report (which will be used to administer negative feedback to the participant). I have set responses.xls to print a report that contains both real results and fake results. To make this manipulation beleivable I am printing the report on a printer located next to the participant and want it to print immediately after they complete the surveys. This places me in a position with MediaLab that I am unfamiliar with, and have a few questions about what to expect.

1: It is my understanding (based on the documentation) that you can only print reports from the responses.xls once an experiment file has been run through completely. I would really appreciate some feedback if there is a workaround for this.

2: Assuming that I must use two separate experiments in MediaLab to accomplish this (one before printing and one after for the next section), are there any conflicts that I should look out for? For example, if I house both experiment files in the same directory, they will both be using the same responses.xls, data files, etc. Will this be a problem (aside from printing the report twice)? I don't need to share responses data (using responses.xls variables) across the two sections.

3. Would it be possible to configure an autostart.txt file to automatically load the second session once the first session has been completed? How would I accomplish this.


Thank you very much for your help. I absolutely love using MediaLab.