matt: HyperResearch offers the ability to code these events from any
media, including video. I use it w/o problems, though I wish it accepted
formatted text documnets rather than just *.TXT.
http://www.researchware.com/
You could, then mark up these codes into a gannt chart application as I
previously referenced.
I have tried to adapt spreadsheets to build gannt/pert charts, but found the
interface too graphically restrictive to bother, given the leerage the
gannt/pert developing applications afford the end-user... ;-} rap.
Harald Klein wrote:
> matt watson wrote:
>
> > I am currently analysing video footage of everyday activities in
> > domestic kitchens. Analysis is going OK with text description plus
> > spreadsheet recording of time on different activities.
> >
> > However, I'd really like to find software that gives some way of
> > recording and analysing the way in which activities, sometimes of
> > multiple people and things, occur simultaneously and sequentially in
> > time.
> >
> > I'd envisage the interface being graphical, something like a timeline in
> > video editing software, allowing you to label different horizontal
> > strands, mark up when an activity starts and stops within those strands
> > and give each block some sort of identifier - but I say that more in the
> > hope of giving an idea of the function I'm looking for rather than being
> > specific about how an interface would have to be. It'd be easy enough to
> > count up seconds spent on each activity, but that's not very interesting
> > - what's interesting is how practices, people and things are working
> > together in time.
> >
> > I realise it's a long shot, but if anyone knows of any such software,
> > I'd be really glad to hear of it.
>
> Have a look at http://www.textanalysis.info especially in the
> audio/video section. C-I-Said might be the program you are looking for,
> but there are a few others, too.
>
> Harald
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