Create Highlight Videos Based on your Codings...
Create highlight videos based on your INTERACT codings with only a few mouse clicks!
The Highlight Movie Creator add-on module to INTERACT can handle different formats of multimedia videos as input at the same time(!) (e.g. MPEG 1, MPEG 2, DivX, AVI etc.) and create one single video from those sources. Thus, all your source material will be converted on the fly to fit the specifications of the selected destination format. This allows you to create highlight videos with only a few mouse clicks without having to take care of video formats.
Example: If you have used INTERACT to code all situations where e.g. a person "is looking at something special", you can select those events within INTERACT and tell it to create a highlight movie. Simply select the destination format for the resulting video and let the Highlight Movie Creator do its work. When video rendering is finished you will have a video that shows all the situations where the person "is looking at something special".
More sophisticated
If you or someone else has additionally coded all situations "where something interesting happens" based on the same video material, then INTERACT could create a highlight movie with all scenes "where the person is looking at something special AND something interesting happens at the same time". Imagine that those events are not necessarily happening exactly at the same time. Thus your resulting video will show a subset of all coded situations where both codes co-occur! These are just two examples out of numerous possibilities.
It does not matter if all events are distributed over several videos. Even if the source videos have different formats Highlight Movie Creator can put all scenes together, resulting in a single new video.
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You can select various transition effects to give the resulting highlight video a professional touch. It is also possible to tell Highlight Movie Creator to produce not only one single resulting video but to output every single scene as a single video file. This allows you to easily integrate those snippets e.g. into a PowerPoint presentation that can be outhanded to your customers or research partners.
Visualize Sensor Data in Sync to your Videos...
Use the INTERACT add on module DataView to display any kind of sensor data in sync to your video recordings. E.g. physiological information, data from drive or flight simulation systems or data acquired by mechanic systems in industrial usability studies.
This allows you not only to see what's going on in the video, but also to evaluate the recorded data in parallel
Example:
- Import heart rate frequency data and compare the behavior of the observed subject to the currently visualized data.
- Use system information recorded during a drive simulation and see what the test person does, whenever the cars break pressure raises over a certain value.
- Examine how parameters such as temperature, lightning or noise can influence a population of animals, by synchonising video recordings with those parameters and see what's happening in both worlds simultaneously.
- INTERACT DataView Physiology Data DisplayClick to enlarge
Pattern Detection in Behavioral Coding Data...
Let p.a.t.t.e.r.n show you the not quite obvious!
We have developed a highly sophisticated method to analyze behavioral data. The INTERACT add-on module p.a.t.t.e.r.n integrates algorithms which are able to discover and quantify behavioral patterns inside your observational data.
During analysis p.a.t.t.e.r.n takes several parameters into account, such as order, duration and relative position of behavioral events. This analysis program integrates completely with INTERACT.
Example: Automatic detection of hidden behavioral patterns
Imagine the following results of your research in form of a graphical representation on a time axis. Each line represents a certain behavior, detected throughout your observation and coding process:
It is obvious, that the given codes have to be interpreted in correlation and not each one by itself. This leads to a very complex situation, where new behavioral 'clusters' will be built from the given codes at each point in time (see the marked region in the above graph as an example).
E.g. 'Person A is talking while person B is not listening and person C is arguing against person B'. This combination of single behavioral codes ('A talking', 'B listening', 'C arguing', etc.) now forms a complex new behavior of the whole group of observed people. This is just a very simple example. Lots of other code combinations will arise in your results - and they have to be interpreted...
For easier reading we will now assign a short representation for such a complex behavior. Let's say we name the one from the above example ''A'' = 'Person A is talking while person B is not listening and person C is arguing against person B'. We assign the abbreviation ''B'' to the next different combination of codes and so on. After that, let's list those representants one after another due to their appearance in your observational data. We will then get a ''sentence of behavioral information'' like the following: ''AHBIAJBKABAABABAAHBIAJBKAABABAAHBIAJBKA''
Now, here is the question:
Can you detect the underlying pattern of behavior in the above shown data string?
No? Our add-on module can - in just a few seconds!
Two patterns of equal 'quality' can be found:
Also a HIDDEN top ordered pattern can be found:
To get those results without the support of our INTERACT product family, you would have to spend hundreds of hours with data aggregation, filtering, reorganization and statistical analysis.
With the use of p.a.t.t.e.r.n those results will be just a few mouse clicks away.
Third Party Applications to use with INTERACT
Sequential Data Analysis from Roger Bakeman...
Sequential Data Analysis with GSEQ
Roger Bakeman (Georgia State University) and Vicenç Quera (University of Barcelona) have prepared programs that let users convert data files produced by INTERACT into their Sequential Data Interchange Standard or SDIS format.
Such data files can then be used with their Generalized Sequential Querier or GSEQ program. A zip file containing descriptions of their conversion programs and the programs themselves may be downloaded at no charge from http://www.gsu.edu/~psyrab/sg.htm or http://www.ub.es/comporta/sg.htm (select English and Download or Español and Descargar).
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