Motolangage

Context

Motolangage is an experimental app developed for INSERM, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research. It's a tool to help researchers understand how people learn a language.

The app is a game where the user has to guess whether a sentence in a fictional language matches the image displayed on the screen. They first receive a brief training with a series of examples.

Researchers can then analyze the user's performance and tweak the game's parameters (duration, cycles, sentence complexity..., etc.) to see how it affects learning.

Contribution

I built the interface of the app with React and Redux. Each time a user answered, or failed to answer, a sentence, the frontend would send their answer along with a bunch of behavioural metadata for researchers to analyze.

Unlike most projects I work on, the React app lives in a monolithic Laravel app. It was a brief dive into the PHP world, which reminded me of my Ruby on Rails days.