Methodological innovations in computational support : visual analysis

Dates

Start date: 1 September 2008
End date: 15 September 2011

Summary

The second QUIC research project relates to multi-stream visual data. Social science increasingly uses visual data, and a new networked video conferencing technology called 'Access Grid' will allow people at many locations to participate in 'virtual fieldwork' or teaching sessions convened by a host site.

This project will refine and document procedures developed in the last two years for the use of the Access Grid in primary data collection and advanced pedagogy. It will build on an ESRC e-Social Science project that delivered the world's first 'virtual fieldwork' via the Access Grid, and on an institution-funded pilot project delivering advanced software training via the Access Grid. Thus, this projects aims to document how to analyse AG multi-stream visual data using CAQDAS, and deliver training via AG.

The substantive test-bed application will be to conduct virtual fieldwork involving staff of the Environment Agency and/or National Probation Service.

Outputs and Guidance

For outputs created under QUIC's work on the analysis of video and other audiovisual data forms, please see the materials within the Analysing Visual Data pages.  This material includes information on how to prepare audiovisual data for analysis in CAQDAS packages, a page on ethical considerations in relations to analysing video data, guidance for users of various CAQDAS packages, as well as a write-up of a research exemplar of a project undertaken in Transana 2.42.

Researchers:   Nigel Fielding, Christina Silver, Christine Rivers, Sarah Bulloch