Monday, June 8, 2009
Sunday, December 7, 2008
NRC Video Analysis Research Group (varg-nrc)
Some NRC colleagues who attended our NRC session on video data analysis expressed an interest in setting up a site to support continuing interaction. There was also interest in the possibility of developing proposals for Study Group or Symposium on video analysis for NRC 2009. This site was set up to support these interests.
For those of you who did not attend the NRC session, here is the background: We are a group of researchers at Oakland University who use video data in studying literacy. About a year ago we began looking for tools that would support direct analysis of video data that did not require transcriptions. We reviewed several and finally decided to focus on the Eudico Lingusitic Annotator (ELAN) developed by linguists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. Since then we have found ELAN to be a powerful and well documented research tool that has great potential for use in literacy studies. Our NRC session demonstrated both the theoretical framework we are using in our work (Interaction Analysis) and the ELAN software.
At NRC we distributed a DVD that included the ELAN software and a wide range of supporting materials (manuals, sample videos with annotations, instructional videos, etc.) All of the materials on the DVD however are also available on the session web site that is also linked at the upper right. If you did not attend the NRC session, take some time to review the materials on the session site, install ELAN on your computer, and take a look at the sample files.
So ... post questions, comments, and suggestions here. Furthermore, if you are feeling ambitious and would like to propose a study group, session, or symposium for NRC 2009 this would be a good place to do that too.
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For those of you who did not attend the NRC session, here is the background: We are a group of researchers at Oakland University who use video data in studying literacy. About a year ago we began looking for tools that would support direct analysis of video data that did not require transcriptions. We reviewed several and finally decided to focus on the Eudico Lingusitic Annotator (ELAN) developed by linguists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. Since then we have found ELAN to be a powerful and well documented research tool that has great potential for use in literacy studies. Our NRC session demonstrated both the theoretical framework we are using in our work (Interaction Analysis) and the ELAN software.
At NRC we distributed a DVD that included the ELAN software and a wide range of supporting materials (manuals, sample videos with annotations, instructional videos, etc.) All of the materials on the DVD however are also available on the session web site that is also linked at the upper right. If you did not attend the NRC session, take some time to review the materials on the session site, install ELAN on your computer, and take a look at the sample files.
So ... post questions, comments, and suggestions here. Furthermore, if you are feeling ambitious and would like to propose a study group, session, or symposium for NRC 2009 this would be a good place to do that too.
In order to post comments to this site, you must either login use your Google account username and password or create a separate Blogger account.
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