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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 ----------------------- Harald Klein Social Science Consulting Brückengasse 12 07407 Rudolstadt Tel/Fax: +49 3672 488494