Study tools

VideoSimLab-Template

Forkable jsPsych study project for video studies — timeline, questionnaires, replay trials and deployment to JATOS.

What & why

A video study consists of a timeline, questionnaires, replay trials and the deployment to a JATOS server. The template provides all of this as a runnable project. To plan a new study, fork the repository and change only the configuration in src/main.ts. The plugins Cockpit-Display-Replay and SAGAT-freeze are already included, as are 17 questionnaire scales in German and English. Example recordings and display configurations are available as assets.

The template combines the plugins of the set into one study. The documentation in the repository (docs/) describes the project structure, the trial configurations, the procedures of earlier studies and a how-to list for new sectors, recordings and SAGAT items.

Quickstart

Fork the repository (gitlab.com/ecosimlab/videosimlab-template), run npm install and copy the example assets to public/. Then start npm run dev and configure the study in src/main.ts. The included GitLab CI pipeline deploys the study to JATOS.

Reuse

Fork as the starting point of your own video study

Interface: Git fork, configuration in src/main.ts

Requirements

Node.js and npm
JATOS server

Included

Timeline, replay and SAGAT trials, questionnaire scales, language switch DE/EN
Loading gate for large recordings, CI deployment to JATOS

Not included

Your own recordings and driving data (example assets are provided separately)

Cite

Jan Heidinger, Leonardt Wagner, Christopher Spölmink, Thomas Franke (2026).
VideoSimLab: Developing a Video-Based Toolchain for Vehicle Display Evaluation Studies
AutomotiveUI '26 (18th Intl. Conf. on Automotive User Interfaces)
10.1145/3828157.3828768