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NoldusHub - Projects and Configuration

NoldusHub 1.8 is a data integration platform by Noldus. This page provides background information about projects, devices, members, recordings, sessions, and markers, along with step-by-step guides for common tasks.

Projects (v1.4)

This page provides background information about projects and describes what actions you can take for projects.

Background

What is a project?

A project is a container for arranging your research session recordings. You are free to arrange projects in such a way that they best match how you want to organize your research. We advise you to record all sessions of one research experiment in one project.

To go inside a project click the name of the project inside the Projects page. To navigate to the Projects page:

• As an Administrator, click Projects.
• As a Researcher or User, your home page is the Projects page.

The name of the project that you are working in is always displayed at the top of the screen.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Create a project.
• Rename a project.
• Delete a project.
• Navigate to the sessions list.
• Back up all projects. (Ask your administrator.)

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Project Devices and Test Stations

This page provides background information about project test stations and devices and describes what actions you can take for each.

Background

All the test stations and devices you or your administrator created are available in projects as Test stations for recording sessions.

Devices and Test Stations

Your project's available devices and test stations appear on the Test stations page. To display this page, open your project. You will automatically land on the Test stations page. If not, navigate to Setup in the left side bar and to Test stations in the header bar.

Devices and Signals

The Test stations page also shows the signals provided by the devices. Signals are the physiological data signals delivered by devices, for example, Electrodermal activity (EDA). The time-lapse values of the signals you set up in a project are included in your recording sessions.

Devices and Signals are Logically Connected

A device and its signals are logically connected in NoldusHub. When you switch off a device, all its connected signals are also automatically switched off. And vice versa, when you switch off all signals for a device, the device itself is also switched off.

The same applies to switching on: When you switch on a device, all its signals are also switched on. So, for example, when you switch off an Eye tracker device, the Gaze signal is automatically switched off. Or the other way around: When you switch on a Screen video device, the Screen video signal is also switched on.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Set up devices and test stations for a project.
• Connect devices to a Participant PC.

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Project Members

This page provides background information about project members and describes what action you can take for project members.

Background

What are Project Members?

You can share your project with co-workers and lab-mates by inviting them as project members. All administrator users automatically have access to all projects. Other users can be invited in the Members module of the Setup menu.

Roles and Permissions

You can set the permissions for project members by adding them as an Editor. As the creator of the project, you are immediately assigned the Owner role.

• Owner: The project member that created the project and has all project rights.
• Editor: The project member can edit a project.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Select members for a project.
• Delete a project member.

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Project Recording

This page provides background information about project recordings and describes what actions you can take for project recordings.

Background

What is a Project Recording?

A project recording is a recording of a participant's behavior and physiological measurements. Project recordings are time-limited because you control how long they last by starting and stopping a recording. As for content, a project recording consists of:

• Screen video footage showing the participant's screen content and what actions the participant performs.
• Face video footage showing the participant during the recording.
• Timeline data showing the recorded data signals.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Record a session for a project.
• Set up devices and test stations for a project.
• Calibrate eye trackers.
• Set up members for a project.
• Score a marker.
• Remove a scored marker.

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Session List

This page provides background information about the session list and describes what actions you can take in the session list.

Background

What is the Session List?

The sessions list is a list with the previously saved project sessions. New session recordings are added to the top of the list once you save them.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Replay a session from a project.
• Download a session.
• Rename a session.
• Delete a session.

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Project Session

This page provides background information about project sessions and describes what actions you can take for project sessions.

Background

What is a Project Session?

A project session is a saved project recording that could, depending on the recorded data, consist of:

• Screen video footage of the participant's screen content and actions the participant has performed.
• Face video footage of the participant during the recording.
• Timeline of the recorded data signals.
• Previously scored markers, if you (or someone else) replayed the recording before and scored markers.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Replay a session from a project.
• Score a marker.
• Remove a scored marker.

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Markers

This page provides background information about markers and describes what actions you can take.

Background

What is a Marker?

With the use of markers, you can annotate events that are important to your study. Examples of markers may be blinking, to keep track of when the participant blinks, or talking, the moment the participant starts talking.

A marker consists of a name, type of marker, shortcut key, and color of marker. You first have to define the markers that you want to use in your project. Afterward, you can use key shortcuts during the replay of your session to place markers, which is called "scoring." During the scoring of markers, a timestamp is added along with the name and color of the marker in the pane Markers.

Types of Markers

There is one type of marker available:

• Point Marker: The marker is a point in time and has no duration.

Actions

What do you want to do?

• Define a marker.
• Edit a defined marker.
• Delete a defined marker.
• Score a marker.
• Remove a scored marker.

Learn the basics of NoldusHub

• Read the overview to learn the NoldusHub fundamentals.
• Follow the quickstart guide / tutorial to learn the basic steps for carrying out an observation in NoldusHub.

Guides

Log in to NoldusHub

Aim

To get access to NoldusHub.

Before You Begin

You must have been added as a user in NoldusHub by the system administrator and must have received a username and password.

Procedure

1. Open Google Chrome and navigate to your NoldusHub domain, for example, https://noldushub.mydomain.com.
2. Enter your Username and Password.
3. Click Log in.

What's Next?

It is possible to change your password.

Log Out or Change Your Password

Aim

To log out or to change your password.

Before You Begin

To log out or to change your password you have to be logged in.

Procedure

Log Out

1. Open your account menu.
2. Click Log out.

Change Your Password

1. Open your account menu and click Change password.
2. In the Current password field, enter your current password.
3. In the New password and Repeat password fields, enter your new password.
4. Click Save.

Add, Edit or Delete a User

Aim

To add, edit or delete a new application user.

Background

User Types

NoldusHub distinguishes application and project-level users. See User management for more information about the differences.

Before You Begin

• You must have the Administrator role to add an application-level user.
• You need to determine what application-level role the new user needs.

Procedure

Add a User

1. Open the application settings.
2. Click User management.
3. Click Add user.
4. In the First name, Last name, and Email address fields, enter the corresponding values for the new user.
5. In the Username field, enter the display name for the user in NoldusHub. Note: The following characters are allowed in the username: a to z (lowercase), A to Z (uppercase), 0 to 9, '@' (at sign), '.' (period), '-' (hyphen) and '_' (underscore).
6. In the Password and Repeat password fields, enter the password for the user.
7. Select the role you want to assign to the new user using the Role list.
8. Click Save.
9. Provide the username and password to the user.

Edit a User

1. Open the application settings.
2. Click User management.
3. Scroll to the user you want to edit and click the edit option for the user.
4. Edit either the user's First name, Last name, or Email address fields, or change the user's role in the Role list.
5. Click Save.

Delete a User

1. Open the application settings.
2. Click User management.
3. Scroll to the user you want to delete and click the delete option for the user.
4. Click Yes.

What's Next?

A logical next step is to create a test station.

Reset the Password for a User

Aim

To reset the password for an existing application user.

Before You Begin

• You must have the Administrator role to reset the password for a user.
• Users can also change their own password. If you forgot your password and are unable to log in, please contact your administrator and ask them to reset your password for you.

Procedure

1. Open the application settings.
2. Click User management.
3. Scroll to the user for whom you want to reset the password and click the edit option for the user.
4. Click Reset password.
5. In the Password and Repeat password fields, enter the new password for the user.
6. Click Save.
7. Provide the new password to the user.

What's Next?

It is also possible to delete a user.

Create, Rename or Delete a Test Station

Aim

To create, rename or delete a test station.

Before You Begin

• You must have the Administrator role to create, rename or delete a test station.
• You must have installed and connected at least one Participant PC.
• Navigate to the Test stations page.

Note: Test stations must be created from your Test leader PC. You can create as many test stations as you want but can only have two test stations active simultaneously.

Procedure

Create a Test Station

1. Click Create test station.
2. To give your test station a name, enter the name in the Full name field, for example, Test room B.
3. To give your test station an abbreviated name, enter an abbreviated name in the Nickname field, for example, TRB.
4. Click Save.
5. To activate your test station, switch the toggle in front of your test station to the right by clicking on it. The toggle turns green when activated.

Rename a Test Station

1. Click the options menu on the test station you want to rename and select Rename.
2. Enter the new name for your test station in the Full name field.
3. Enter the new abbreviated name for your test station in the Nickname field.
4. Click Save.

Delete a Test Station

1. Click the options menu on the test station you want to delete and select Delete.
2. Click Yes.

What's Next?

Complete your test station by adding devices.

Add or Delete a Device

Aim

To add a device to a test station or to delete a device from a test station.

Before You Begin

• You must have the Administrator role to add or delete a device from a test station.
• The device you want to add must already be installed at the test station (Participant PC).
• Navigate to the Test stations page.

Note: Devices must be added from your Test leader PC.

Procedure

Add a Device to a Test Station

1. Unfold the test station where you want to add a device by clicking the expand option.
2. Click Add devices.
3. Select the device(s) you want to add using the checkboxes in the Add devices list. Hover over items to see tooltips with the corresponding computer names.
4. Click Add device.

Delete a Device from a Test Station

1. Unfold the test station where you want to delete a device by clicking the expand option.
2. Click the delete option for the device.

What's Next?

Create a project to record and replay your sessions.

Create, Rename or Delete a Project

Aim

To create, rename or delete a project.

Before You Begin

• You must have the Administrator or the Researcher role to create or delete a project.
• Navigate to the Projects page.

Procedure

Create a Project

1. To create a new project, click Create project.
2. Enter the name you want to give your project in the Enter name field.
3. Click Save.

Rename a Project

1. Click the options menu on the project you want to rename.
2. Enter the new name for your project in the Name field.
3. Click Save.

Delete a Project

1. Scroll to and click the delete option for the corresponding project.
2. Click Yes.

Navigate to the Sessions List

There are two ways to get to the sessions list:

Option 1:

1. Navigate to the Projects page.
2. Click the sessions icon on the line of the corresponding project.

Option 2:

1. Navigate to the Projects page.
2. Scroll to and click on the name of the project.
3. Navigate to Sessions in the side menu.

What's Next?

Set up your project with devices and test stations, and members.

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Source: NoldusHub 1.8 Reference Manual