#1 by DonutMan
Hello, I would like to know if some of you already tried running oTree client on Android pad ? The only way the participant can interact with oTree is thus the touch screen (no mouse, no keyboard). Is there anything I need to be aware of or does it run as usual ? Thanks a lot, BR Pierre
#2
by
BonnEconLab
(edited )
oTree itself has little to do with the user interface. It is the program that runs in the background and controls the progress of the experiment. Whether your user interface is touch-friendly depends entirely on your design choices and implementation in the HTML templates (e.g., fonts size, size of buttons and other input elements, etc.). Since oTree includes the Bootstrap CSS framework (https://getbootstrap.com), optimizing the graphical design of your study for touch-based devices should not be too hard. Check out the examples on https://otree-more-demos.herokuapp.com/demo. The first entry, https://otree-more-demos.herokuapp.com/demo/shop, looks like a good example to me of things that work well and of things that do not work well (at least on small screens): The selection of the items in the “online shop” is relatively touch-friendly (but could be improved by making the images clickable). The fact that a list appears at the top of the page that grows longer and longer and moves the items that can be shopped out of sight is not really user-friendly.