( FRramework for Emotional Sensory Human Experimental Research )

This software is being developed as an entry in the 2014 Intel RealSense App Challenge. While it is open-source, it is not currently licensed for use. It is expected that a permissive open license will be adopted when the competition concludes.

FRESHER is intended for people who are researching human subjects. It is a toolset that allows the researcher to:

• design and build experiments
• run experiments
• record reaction
• process and store data
• analyse data

The term researchers includes a lot of people, such as academia, students, individuals at corporations, or even hobbyists. Some of the fields that might find FRESHER useful are:

• psychology
• marketing
• education/training

In order to build an experiment, a researcher needs to write a script. FRESHER exposes an API to do this very easily. A simple experiment can be created with very little or no programming knowledge.

Instead of inventing and requiring a new scripting language, FRESHER lets researchers use a language that they may already know, or if not, could be learned easily. Two languages are currently supported, Python and C#. JavaScript may be added at a later date, and other languages will be considered depending on demand.

This is probably best answered with some examples. The common theme is that experiments are intended to gauge reaction, sentiment, and emotion.

• Find the subject's reaction to two different graphic designs.
• Find the subject's reaction to several video clips.
• Find the subject's reaction to several images.
• Find the subject's reaction to several sounds.
• Have the subject solve a problem.

The minimum requirements are:

• A Windows computer capable of running the .NET Framework 4.5.1
  • Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP1, Windows Vista SP2, Windows PE, Windows Server 2012 R2, Win
  • Processor: 1 GHz, RAM: 512MB

The recommended configuration includes:

• Video: 1920x1080 resolution
• Monitor: 22" or larger
• Camera: Intel RealSense camera (Creative VF0800)
• CPU: 4th-generation Intel Core processor