Roles and Reusability of Video Data in Social Studies of Interaction. SCARP Case Study No. 5
Date
07/2009Author
Whyte, Angus
Metadata
Abstract
This case study has been produced for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) SCARP
project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to investigate disciplinary
attitudes and approaches to data deposit. The study reviews the curation landscape in several
interdisciplinary fields that use video analysis in studies of human interaction. Field research for
the study involved semi-structured interviews with researchers and participant observation in
their informal data sharing and analysis sessions. Researchers were working in a variety of
projects across social sciences, humanities and computing; from domains including human
geography, psychology, sociology, social informatics, and linguistics. The study primarily
focuses on uses of video in ethnographic studies and in eye movement research.