I find you can get all of these features in a small MIDI keyboard with a sequencer. Works very well for behavioral observation. Also for real time self-reporting of emotions, etc.
Bill Scott >>> "Dennis Goff" <dg...@randolphcollege.edu> 01/15/09 9:22 AM >>> Mike, Use The Google and search for event recorder software. My second hit took me to animalbehavior.org where I found a link to Behavior Tracker - http://www.behaviortracker.com/ If that program does not work for you, my search yielded other links that might. Good luck Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ Dennis M. Goff Chair, Department of Psychology Professor of Psychology Randolph College (Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891) Lynchburg VA 24503 dg...@randolphcollege.edu From: Donnelly, Michael [mailto:donnel...@uwstout.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:44 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] looking for some software 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) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
