The templates below are provided in the Workflow Designer as building blocks to construct your experiment. Each has customized options for performing a specific data acquisition task. The prompting, triggering, acquisition time, and number of repetitions can be individually controlled for each instance of a template in your experiment workflow.
Show the output of feedback sensors (Force or EMG) in the configuration and display one sensor to the subject. Data are not saved.
Collect a maximum voluntary contraction from a force sensor which may be used to normalize subsequent data. The sensor’s offset is automatically computed from the quiescent period at the start of data collection. The number of MVC attempts, attempt time, and rest time are all configurable. The subject will be presented with bar feedback as well as textual and audio prompts to indicate when they should contract.
Similar to MVC (Force), but uses realtime RMS feedback from an EMG sensor to estimate the force produced.
For usage when force feedback will be used with an isometric contraction against a fixed, known load for all subjects (such as attempting to lift a fixed weight).
Provides a trajectory for the subject to track, where the effort exerted is displayed as a trace normalized by the MVC. Allows arbitrary sensors to be displayed for the operator. For the subject, multiple feedback channels (which may be independently normalized based on the output of a MVC task) can be shown.
The same options as multiple tracking paradigm, but displays the feedback to the subject as bars instead of traces. Based on the sensor type, real-time filters are used to process the data for feedback presentation if needed. It may also be used to collect data without feedback, simply by not selecting any feedback channels.
A simple data acquisition task which displays signals to the operator (like an oscilloscope) and stores the data.
Measures the offset of each channel used in the test configuration. The channel configuration may be adjusted to compensate for the offset in future data collection during the current test run, or the channel offsets may be set to zero (default). Data are not saved.
Automatically transfers the data collected during the experiment to EMGworks Analysis for processing and analysis upon completion of the experiment.