Showing posts with label research tool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research tool. Show all posts

RESOURCE: Recommended Fieldwork & Analysis Equipment for Video-based Ethnographic Research

My research has been conducting a video-based, team ethnography over the past two years. Because people have been asking about what equipment we use in our work, we've written up a brief technical report on the choices we've made and a bit about what we've learned... more» report»

RESOURCE: Audio Gear for Rich Media

I'll post our list of field recording equipment in a later article, but here's a nice summary of equipment and software that can be used to capture quality audio recordings... more»

RESOURCE: New Version of InqScribe Video and Audio Transcription Tool

The best video and audio transcription package I'm aware of just got updated. We make extensive use of InqScribe in my research group -- and we have been quite pleased with it. It is intuitive, feature-rich, and exceedingly reasonable in terms of cost... more»

RESOURCE: Online Video Annotation Takes A Giant Leap Forward

For those of you who video-based research, here's info on an updated platform for online video annotation. It allows a user to easily add subtitles, text, animated shapes and pointers, freehand text and drawings, images, webcam video and even RSS feeds directly into your web-hosted videos... article» Mojiti platform» demo»

RESOURCE: TagCrowd - an online tool for creating simple visual summaries of any text

Simple online tool for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud... more»

RESOURCE: Online concept mapping tool

From information aesthetics, here's a nice online app for basic concept mapping... more»

RESOURCE: Census Data in Google Earth

From Information Aesthetics, gCensus is an effort to make geographic data freely and easily accessible to the public -- without the need for expensive GIS software packages... tool» more» more»

RESOURCE: How to get published by a university press

Many of the professional practices associated with being a successful academic are privately held secrets. One such practice has to do with getting your work taken up by a publisher... more»

RESOURCE: Low budget lighting for videorecording

Because visual anthropology research can take you into settings that are dark... more»

RESOURCE: Portable brain-computer interface (EEG)

The world’s first commercially available brain computer interface (BCI) for EEG... more»

RESOURCE: Visuwords Graphical Dictionary (free)

Thinkmap folks must be bumming. Here's a free online dictionary and thesaurus widget built on top of the WordNet database... more»

RESOURCE: Fieldwork software and other fieldtools

Organizational software for fieldwork... more»