Processing

Processing Movement Data

This is a common topic for MovALyzeR, GripAlyzeR & ScriptAlyzeR. These programs will be referred to as MovAlyzeR on this page.

Processing or reprocessing can be done per Trial (or) Condition (or) Subject (or) Group (or) Experiment by:

Right-click on trial/condition/subject/group/experiment as appropriate > Processing > Reprocess Trials.

Reprocessing is required after changing the processing settings (Experiment_Settings) or condition settings (Condition_Properties) or when immediate processing during the experiment is disabled.

Reprocessing a particular trial offers two choices: to not update the condition results (ignore results) or append the particular trial's results to the condition results (append results).

Progressing can be monitored in the data navigator and by the progress meter (status bar) in the toolbar.

To optimize processing speed
- Toggle Rapid View in the Toolbar (even during processing) to switch off the trial-by-trial updating of the Data Navigator and the Results Window. However, the Red, Green, and Gray trial markings will not be shown until after processing is complete.
- Toggle Logging in the Toolbar clicking File > Logging > Uncheck Log Actions to File to suppress logging of all program steps to a file.

Action	Experiment Settings	Input file (extension)	Output file (extension) & link		Output per	Numerical Output (View)
			MovAlyzeR	GripAlyzeR
Run Experiment	Recording	-	hwr	frd	Trial	Raw data
Process data Steps: Subject (or) Group (or) Condition (or) Exp > Process > Reprocess trials Trial > view data > processed data/ Extracted data/ segment data/ consistency error data/ consistent data	Time Functions	hwr	tf	tf	Trial	Processed time functions (= position, velocity, acceleration, jerk, spectra)
	Segmentation	tf	seg	seg	Trial	Segment
	Feature Extraction	tf and seg	ext	ext	Condition (all trials)	Extracted data (= all trials and strokes)
	Consistency Checking	ext file	con (consistent data)	con (consistent data)	Condition (all trials) (Note: Ext file is processed for every trial and .con file written with data for last correct trial per condition)	Consistent data (= only accepted trials and strokes)
			err (consistency error data)	err (consistency error data)		Consistency errors (= type of errors)
Steps: Experiment > Summarize Experiment > Summarize> view Extracted data > .inc file Experiment > Summarize > view err data >.err file	Summarization	con and ext files	inc		Selection of subjects and groups per experiment (Note: Ext and con files are read again for every trial and con files per condition rewritten with data for all correct trials)	Inc data (for standard statistical packages)
		err (from consistency)	err			Consistency errors (= type of errors)
		ext	ers
Experiment > Analysis > Analysis Chart (or) All trials, All data, averages, averages/sub) Analysis Chart > Actions/settings> View raw data (.tmp file) OR view xmean data(.xme and .xm1 file) OR view tabular data(.txt file)	Analysis & Statistics	inc	tmp		Selection of subjects per experiment	Raw data
		tmp	xme, xm1			X-mean data
		xme	txt			Exported data (for standard graphing packages)
		xm1 > xme > eva > grp > lst	lst (Statistics file)			Statistics