I’m trying to build a spatial arrangement task inspired by Q-SpAM (Koch et al., 22), where participants drag emotion-related words around a blank screen to position them according to perceived similarity. The key goal is to capture the exact x/y coordinates of where each word is dropped, to analyze semantic distances between them.

In Qualtrics, this is typically done using JavaScript to track pixel positions of draggable word boxes. I am attempting to adapt this method entirely within Gorilla, ideally without needing Drop Zones or discrete response values I want words to be placed freely and for their final spatial coordinates to be recorded.

In Gorilla’s current Drag and Drop functionality, it seems I must use fixed Drop Zones, and the response data only includes identifiers like “1,3” or zone-based categories, not actual spatial (x, y) coordinates.

I also tried configuring text components with "Draggable" enabled (without Drop Zones) in a blank screen, expecting them to be freely movable, but they snap back to their original position and their location is not stored. I couldn't find any way to make Gorilla allow free spatial dragging with coordinate capture, similar to how Q-SpAM works in Qualtrics.