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Serial Versus Same-Page Formats For Event Presentations

Default Format: Serial - One Event To a Page
ProtoGenie provides the tools to create and sequence events (measurement, treatment, and support) and to present them upon execution one event to a Webpage.  One-to-a-page is the normal or default presentation mode.  However, ProtoGenie also enables users to present multiple events on the same page.  There are two special formats and one generic multiple-event options for doing this.

Two Special-Purpose Same-Page Treatment/Measurement Options
There are two special page formats for presenting visual treatment (stimuli) events on the same page as a measurement.  The first is called "Image Stimuli" and the second is called "Text Stimuli."  These presentation options enable an easy way to present a stimulus (image or text) and a measurement on the same page.  

These two options provide a quick and easy way to set up a common experimental procedure in which a stimulus (like a JPEG image) is presented along with a measurement and other options.  On this same page, you can choose one, both, or none of the following options:

Present Stimulus (picture or text) with an accompanying block of text - such as a description of or comment about something in the image or text stimulus.

Present stimulus (picture or text) with a measurement event, such as a multiple choice question.

For details, see What Are Same Page Stimulus & Measurement Events and How To Create Same Page Stimulus & Measurement Events

PG Executable Form Presentations For Complex Same-Page Multiple-Events Presentations
See PG Executable Forms.

Same-page formats are NOT limited to measurement events, as in survey questionnaires.  For example, the form format can be used to present a one-page checklist of events that are to be performed by a subject.  This checklist might contain measurement events such as self-reports of the intensity and duration of headaches or they contain treatment events, such as instructions to take a prescribed medication or do a certain exercise - or they might involve combinations of the two kinds of events.

The selection of same-page formats does not affect the author's experience in the ProtoGenie Composer/Editor where protocols are created.  It only affects the subject's or respondent's experience when a protocol is executed.  That is, in form format, a subject/respondent may at times view multiple questions on a single scrollable Web page and respond to them on that page.

Related Topics
Same Page Stimulus & Measurement Events
How To Create Same Page Stimulus & Measurement Events