Hello fellow TIPsters:
I am planning on adding a new element to my Research Methods course, involving naturalistic observation. I'd like my students to be able to record the duration of behavioral events while viewing videotaped naturalistic behaviors--animals in the zoo, birds on my feeder, kids playing, people at the mall, that sort of thing. I hope that one of you will be able to point me to a place where I can find a piece of software that has the following features: 1. Use for recording cumulative time (duration) of behavioral events (sort of like a stopwatch) 2. Able to record multiple simultaneous times (multiple clocks timing simultaneously) 3. Start/stop isn't the usual toggle action (press/start, release/nothing, press/stop) but instead is press/start, release/stop This third feature is particularly hard to find, and I am hoping I don't have to resort to writing my own program to do it. I wrote one back in the day, for the old Macintosh, but I need one that runs under Windows (all of our students use Windows laptops). I could also do this using the Biopacs we have here, but that system is kind of clunky for this application and not really portable. I found a good timer online, you can find it here http://www.stopwatch-timer.com/ It is admirably set up for the first two features, but not the third. Also, free would be great, but not required. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. -Mike Donnelly http://www3.uwstout.edu/faculty/donnellym/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
