I think that would be a great session. I know Mimi Ito and others have been experimenting with Livescribe (which allows you to compare written notes to what was spoken at a given time) for field notes. I'm interested in worn cameras and realtime annotation of video streams. Both raise issues of consent, not to mention analysis... I've been skeptical of the iPad, but having played with friends', I'm almost won over. I'm waiting for the Googlepad, mostly because I like my devices to come pre-jailbroken, and because AppInventor may mean fairly easy customization. As an aside, when Swype for the iPad goes beyond rumor, that might put me over the edge for an iPad. Best, Alex On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Thanks danah for showing us 1 way the iPad could be useful in research, rather than just entertainment or being kewl: "mine is bigger than your's." ***I still maintain that the iOS is an inadequate engine, and as for battery life, most peeps in all but poorest countries have electricity in their homes.***
Of course, we're kinda obsolescent, but when NetLab did the COnnected Lives interview, our piloting found that laptops were a distraction -- both intimadating and fascinating -- and we went to a modified paper-pen-stickynote data collection technique. Read about it in our Field Methods paper (also on my website).
Bernie Hogan, Juan-Antonio Carrasco and Barry Wellman. 2007. "Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-Aided Sociograms." Field Methods 19 (2), May: 116-144.
Maybe it would be useful if CITASA, AOIR, CSCW had a session or 2 on data gathering gadgets. I've seen lots on data analysis -- the Sunbelt Social Network conference was filled with dazzling ones -- but little on the pesky problem of getting the stuff in.
YMMV IMHO -- my .02
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