ShinyBART runs the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), a measure developed by Lejuez et al. (2002) as a behavioral measure of risk taking.
In the task, you are presented with several (e.g.; 15) balloons sequentially. When you see a balloon, you can pump it by pressing a ‘Pump’ button. If you save a balloon before it pops, you will earn points for that balloon. If it pops, you earn no points for that balloon!
You can pump balloons by clicking the ‘Pump’ button below each balloon. Each time you pump a balloon, it will get a bit larger and has the potential to give you more points.
To earn points, you need to SAVE a balloon before it pops! You can save a balloon at any time by clicking the ‘Save’ button. If you save a balloon, you will earn points equal to the number of pumps you put into it. You will then move on to the next balloon
However – if you pump a balloon too much it might pop! If a balloon pops, you cannot save it and will not earn any points for that balloon. You will then move on to the next balloon.
Different balloons have different popping points and you never know exactly when each balloon will pop. However, you know for sure that the maximum possible number of pumps for a balloon is a certain value (e.g.; 50).
You can play ShinyBART at https://econpsychbasel.shinyapps.io/ShinyBART/ or in the window below (Note that the app runs smoother in a separate window):
See http://www.github.com/ndphillips/ShinyBART for additional details of the code
Lejuez, Carl W, Jennifer P Read, Christopher W Kahler, Jerry B Richards, Susan E Ramsey, Gregory L Stuart, David R Strong, and Richard A Brown. 2002. “Evaluation of a Behavioral Measure of Risk Taking: The Balloon Analogue Risk Task (Bart).” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 8 (2). American Psychological Association: 75.