2.0.0rc4

What's Changed

• 2.0.0rc4 release by @tab-cmd in #338

2.0.0-rc.4

Our final release candidate before the official 2.0 release!

Contributions

• Multimodal Acquisition and Querying
  • Support for multiple devices in online querying #286
  • Support for trigger handling relative to a given device #293
  • Support multiple device static offests #331
  • Support for Device Status (passive or active) #310
• Session Orchestrator #339
  • New task protocol for orchestrating tasks in a session. This refactors several Task and Cli functionality #339, #343
  • Parameter guardrails #340
  • Allow multiple phrases in a single protocol to be defined in a phrase.json and randomized #352
• BciPy Client Additions #346
  • Other commands added for offline analysis, visualization and simulation.
• Artifact Module #336
• Simulator #350
• Task
  • Calibration Task Refactor: pulls out common elements from RSVP and Matrix calibration tasks #330
  • Registry Refactor #332
  • Inquiry Preview
    • Surface button error probability #347
    • Add to Matrix #353
    • Bugfixes/Refactor #348
  • Add more stoppage criteria #351 (max_incorrect)
  • Matrix
    • Layout Support #349
    • Grid always on #313
    • Output stimuli position, screen capture and monitor information after Matrix tasks #303
    • Row/Column spacing support #298
  • VEP Calibration #304/#296
    • session data to VEP calibration #322
• Model
  • Offline analysis to support multimodal fusion. Initial release of GazeModel, GazeReshaper, and Gaze Visualization #294
  • Updates to ensure seamless offline analysis for both EEG and Gaze data #305
  • Offline analysis support for EEG and (multiple) gaze models. Updates to support Eye Tracker Evidence class #360
• Language Model
  • Add Oracle model #316
  • Random Uniform model #311
• Stimuli
  • Updates to ensure stimuli are presented at the same frequency #287
  • Output stimuli position, screen capture and monitor information after Matrix tasks #303
• Dynamic Selection Window
  • Updated trial_length to trial_window to allow for greater control of window used after stimulus presentations #291
• Report
  • Functionality to generate a report in the form of a PDF #325
  • Add a BciPy Calbiraiton Report Action #357
• Offset Support
  • Add support for determining offsets between timing verification Tasks (Ex. RSVPTimingVerificationCalibration) and RawData with a photodiode trigger column. This is useful for setting up new systems and preventing errors before an experiment begins. #327
• Parameters
  • Add a Range type parameter #285 Add editable fields #340 Update parameters.json to seperate relevant parameters by task
• Housekeeping
  • Add mypy typing to the codebase #301
  • Change default log level to INFO to prevent too many messages in the experiment logs #288
  • Upgrade requirements for m1/2 chips #299/#300
  • Fix GitHub actions build issues with macOS #324
  • Tests Improvements
    • Fix occasionally failing test in test_stimuli #326
    • Reshaper tests #302
  • Fix parameter save as #323
  • Pause error #321
  • Fix data buffer issue #308
• GUI Refactor #337
  • Create new BCIUI class for simpler more straightforward UI creation.
  • Create dedicated external stylesheet for global styling
  • Rewrite Experiment Registry to use new GUI code
  • Create intertask action UI
• Task Return Object #334
  • Create TaskData dataclass to be returned from tasks
  • updates task execute methods to return an instance of TaskData
  • Allows for optional storage of a save path and task dictionary in TaskData
• Experiment Refactor #333 #329
  • Refactors the Experiment Field Collection GUI to be an action
  • Allows task protocol to be defined in the orchestrator