restarting an experiment without reloading the page

[Ariana-Mg]

Hi,

I have made a gamified experiment on jspsych and want to give participants the opportunity to restart it after they have finished it. To restart the experiment, I want to present participants with a restart button at the end.

I want their decision to restart the game to be recorded as part of data collection. I also want their data from previous run-throughs to be saved.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!

[becky-gilbert]

Hi @Ariana-Mg, I'm not sure if this is the best/only solution, but you could put your entire game timeline into a looping timeline. The last trial on the game timeline would contain the reset button. The loop function runs after the whole timeline array finishes, so inside that function you could check to see whether the participant clicked the restart button on the last trial - if so then repeat the game timeline (return true), if not then don't repeat the game timeline (return false). All data from each timeline repetition is saved to the jsPsych data by default.