2 Onboarding
Lab accounts
Ask Paul to set you up with accounts on:
the lab Slack at sensorimotor.slack.com—this is what we use for intra-lab (and inter-lab among the sensorimotor superlab) communication instead of email
our local server (
toro
) for on-site long-term archive of data, documents, and code
External Services
Set yourself up with:
a GitHub account to maintain your data analysis & experiment code
a cloud-based account to maintain your own backup of your data (something like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc)
WIRB/Western
Ask Denise Soanes to set you up with swipe-card access to the WIRB security doors (you will need your Western ID card).
Ask Haitao Yang to set you up with an account on the calendar booking system for WIRB meeting rooms and labs https://bmicalendar.ssc.uwo.ca
Install Software
Install MATLAB
Install the KINARM Analysis Scripts for MATLAB
Install Dexterit-E Explorer
Have a look at the MATLAB Documentation site, and go through some online tutorials, e.g. MATLAB OnRamp and Getting Started with MATLAB.
Western Research Ethics
Register on the uwo research ethics site using your
@uwo.ca
email addressComplete a TCPS 2 CORE certification and save the e-certificate (you’ll need it later for uwo research ethics)