Help shape the next study.

A guided self-think-aloud tool. Think of it as a lightweight extension or desktop app that walks a player through recording their own think-aloud sessions while they play, with the same temporal-cell and parent-category coding framework used in this study, applied automatically. The tool prompts when to start, when to pause, and (gently) when verbalisation drifts off-task, so the recording matches the protocol's standards without a researcher in the room.

Today the pipeline behind this site needs a researcher with headphones and a transcript. The new tool will collapse most of that work into a single click for the player and a clean, anonymised dataset for the researcher.

Already running alongside this: a follow-up study extending the cohort to novice and sub-elite players. Currently in data analysis, with first results expected mid-May 2026 — the first elite-vs-novice comparison sitting on the same coding framework. Sub-elite participants are exactly who we're looking to recruit through the form below.

We'll email you when the tool is ready for early access. From there, contributing means:

• Installing the tool (a small extension or app).
• Recording a single match's worth of think-aloud audio while you play your usual game.
• Reviewing the auto-coded output and correcting anything that feels wrong before submission.

That's the minimum. Heavier contributors can take part in longitudinal tracking or coaching-feedback experiments.

• Your own private cognition profile (what this site shows for the elite cohort, but for you).
• Comparison against the elite baseline if you want it.
• Early access to whatever the tool becomes.

Drop your email below. We'll only contact you about this study and the tool, never anything else.