Our Lab

CLOSER's in-lab research activities are carried out through an experimental laboratory at Campus Luigi Einaudi (Room Li2).

The lab's mobile infrastructure also allows lab-in-the-field research activities to target specific populations of interest (e.g., immigrants, entrepreneurs, workers, etc.).

CLOSER is developing a virtual infrastructure to expand its research activities to large representative samples of national and international citizens through online surveys/experiments.

The research infrastructure has the following endowment.

1) Hardware

• 24 laptops and one server computer for in-lab research activities;

• Full-person dividers and mobile chairs, which allow for a broad range of experimental customizations;

• 30 iPads and three mobile cabinet chargers, which would enable lab-in-the-field experiments;

• One projector and audio system

• Wifi connection (through UniTo guest credentials)

2) Software

• Z-tree

• Inquisit 6 Web; 1 Inquisit 6 Lab Primary + 24 Inquisit 6 Lab Additional.

• E-Prime® 3.0, composed by:

  • License E-Prime® 3.0 for single users

  • 1 USB installation key

  • 1 USB HASP license key

  • 3 years of Silver Support

• Qualtrics CoreXM Enterprise Advanced - Academic Research User Based 40000 Responses and up to 8 Users (from Sept. 2022 until June 2027).

3) Recruitment

• CLOSER has developed its own recruitment platform, "QUEST", based on an online server and UniTo students' app. 

• More than 5000 UniTo students are currently enrolled and available for experiments. If you want to participate in our experiments, click here.