What is ZTest:
Open Source Testing and Training Framework
Easy To Code
Easy To Deploy
Easy To Support

Based on the RenPY Visual Novelization Engine

Why Ren'Py?
Easy to learn and create content
Uses Python
Visual Novel created with simple text and images
Easy to deploy and set up
RenPY comes with a light weight python library (2Mb)
Runs on Windows and MacOS with limited setup.
Simply download and double click

How does Ztest use RenPY?
Takes the visual aspects of RenPY and builds it into a Test taking framework
Adds database connectivity
Stores user input and selections as database values
Manipulates values and determines scores
Scores are submitted to PHP mysql server
Viewed as a web page

Our Current Test
Subjective Contour Illusions
A test for visual agnosia
Records multiple choice responses from user
Put all responses into a database
In the works:
Putting database information into a HTML report

New Client

Found Professional user to further our test:

Robert Shapley
Spencer Professor of Science
Center for Neural Science
New York University

The center for Neural Science at New York University have been developing a the physical version of the virtual test we are developing. Once we meet with him and our existing client, we shall implement an enhanced version of the test and bring it to the market to help solve patients with cognitive dissonance disorder.

Semester Goals

Clean up the code and integrate with libraries
Redo Reporting services
Deploy promotional website
Develop wiki for RCOS
Find more professional clients to provide other tests

Areas of Psychology

Our group is considering three areas of psychology that our software would be useful:

Clinical psychologists could use the program to perform assessments and that information analysis by our software and produce a print out of the results.

Industrial psychologists could use the software to give personality assessments and "calculate" the results. This would make it easy for patients to get automatic feedback about their assessment.

Research psychologists could use the software to conduct their studies on a wide scale. Our program will record/analysis/organize data.

Testing and analysis will be based on questions and algorithms the psychologist inputs to the software using XML documents

Example Subjective Contour Illusions

Information on Psyc Test

Our software ideally will be dynamic and allow psychologists to create new tests using our software. But, we are starting with creating an interface for the subjective contour illusion test as requested by our client.

A subjective contour illusion tests for visual agnosia. Visual agnosia is the inability for a person to recognize familiar objects and/or faces despite the absence of damage to the eye. The cause of this condition can be damage in the right hemisphere of the brain. Specifically the temporal and/or occipital lobe.

The test shows pictures to the subject and asks them what shape they see (in a later posting, you will see examples of these images that we have created). Patients with this disorder are unable to identify incomplete pictures.

Ren 'Py Software

Here's a link to the Ren 'Py software which is the framework we are using for our open source project. Enjoy!

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Home_Page