Video, Social Research and Technical Innovations

Organiser

MiMeG Research Node, Kings College London

Date and Location

23 March 2005, Kings College London

Summary

This workshop covered the use of audio-visual technologies to undertake naturalistic, as well as experimental, studies of human conduct and social interaction. These technologies have informed a broad range of research, drawing on different methodological commitments, within various disciplines in the social sciences including sociology, social anthropology, and psychology. They have also supported more applied social science research including more practical projects in areas such as skills training, requirements engineering, and system evaluation. Alongside these developments, and the growing recognition that video has significant implications for social science research, we have witnessed the emergence of developments in software and middleware that provide important resources for the collection, analysis and management of recorded data and its integration with more conventional forms of research material both digital and non-digital. In this light, it is increasingly argued that the Grid may provide unprecedented resources to enhance video-based social science research and enable and enhance synchronous and asynchronous collaboration within research teams, amongst members of research communities and between researchers and practitioners.

Programme

Uncovering Details: Video Support for the Analysis of Complex Activities
Work, Interaction and Technology Group, King's College London.
Email: Paul.Luff@kcl.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/management/witrg/

Supporting Structured Observational Analysis of Multimodal Records
Claire O'Malley, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham

Fields of View: Video, Ethnography and Participatory Design (2.14 Mb)
Monika Buscher, Lancaster University

Multi-modal Ethnography
Bruce Mason, School of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff

Vannotea: Real Time Collaborative Video Annotation (4.35 Mb)
Jane Hunter, DSTC, University of Queensland, Australia

ELAN: Complex Multimedia Annotation in Linguistic Research (2.15 Mb)
Han Slöetjes, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Supporting Distributed Qualitative Video Analysis in the Social Sciences
Mike Fraser, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol