Open-Source Software for Continuous Measurement and Media Annotation
Jeffrey M. Girard · 2017
Full understanding of behavior and experience requires an appreciation of time-dependent patterns. However, traditional methods of observational measurement and self-reporting are ill-suited to capturing such patterns. These methods tend to polarize into either macro-level (gist) analyses of large swaths of time or micro-level (atomic) analyses of discrete segments. Unfortunately, both approaches miss the continuous, dynamic flow of many psychological processes.Specialized methods are needed that can capture such processes as they unfold over time and across dimensions.