Development of the Open Digital Platform for Conducting the Large-Scale Psychological Research

Abstract

The paper presents result of the development of the open digital platform (DigitalPsyTools.ru), which provides support for conducting the large-scale psychological research. Development of the dedicated information and data analysis instrument has a goal to consolidate the efforts of the professional interdisciplinary specialists in the area of psychological research on a single platform. Digital psychological platform is built as an evolving information environment with the toolset for conducting psychological studies of all levels. The paper describes the key functional capabilities, tasks solved and requirements implied for the software implementation and target environment conditions. The scalability, variability of the target execution environments of the software components and local specifics provide the foundation for crystallization of the platform development principles. Internal standard of the psychological test representation in a semi-structured form, corresponding domain-specific programming language and its interpreter software were developed. These components provide means for automatic questionnaire web-interface generation for the study participants. The results of the web-interface testing using varying devices are presented.