About the hroot project - wiso-forschungslabor/hroot-documentation GitHub Wiki
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1. What is HROOT?
HROOT is a web-based software for the organization and management of experiments, experimenters, and participants. It is developed by the WiSo Research Laboratory of the Universität Hamburg (WiSo Forschungslabor). If you have questions that go beyond this wiki documentation, please feel free to contact us at the Universität Hamburg. Contact technical staff in charge of support: [email protected].
You can install and use HROOT for free; the program can be licensed free of charge. To receive the software, download the HROOT license agreement on our homepage (Universität Hamburg – HROOT Project) and send us four completely filled and signed copies via postal service to the following address:
Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
WiSo Research Laboratory
Von-Melle-Park 5
20146 Hamburg, Germany
When you report results of experiments administered with HROOT, the license requires that you mention its use in your publication and cite our paper. The correct citation is:
The experiment was organized and recruited with the software HROOT (Bock, Olaf, Ingmar Baetge & Andreas Nicklisch, 2014).
Reference:
Bock, Olaf, Ingmar Baetge & Andreas Nicklisch (2014). hroot – Hamburg registration and organization online tool. European Economic Review 71, 117–120.
HROOT is implemented with Ruby on Rails, a powerful web development framework.
2. Getting help and reporting bugs
Please contribute your experience using HROOT by sending us emails or contacting us in case of problems.
If you find bugs or have an idea for a feature, please use the GitHub issue tracker for this project: GitHub Issues. You can also send us an email via [email protected].