Parking Control Experiment Instructions

Please carefully read the instructions below.

NOTE: You must be on a laptop or computer to participate. Additionally, it is important that you do NOT refresh or close the page during the experiment.

The game interface is shown below.

The goal of the game is to park the car in the spot marked by a blue square. To successfully park the car, you must stop the car over the blue square in a vertical orientation (parallel to parking lines). To control the car, you can use your mouse to control the joystick toggle on te interface. The x-axis controls steering (left and right) of the wheel (black circle at front of car). The y-axis controls the forward acceleration of the car.

The experiment consists of two phases.

Phase I: In Phase I, you will have a pre-test with two chances to try parking the car from start to finish. Use the joystick to control the car.

Phase II: In Phase II, you will try to park the car from start to finish. Phase II has ten rounds. Use the joystick to control the car.

Complete the following quiz to get started.

1. What does Phase II consist of?
   Parking the car from start to finish 10 times.
   Parking the car from start to finish 5 times.
   15 seconds to practice controlling the car.
   
2. How should you control the car?
   By controlling the joystick with my mouse, with the x-axis controlling steering.
   By pressing my keyboard keys, with the left and right keys controlling steering.
   By controlling the joystick with my mouse, with the y-axis controlling acceleration.