Collaborative Video Analysis:  An Interactive Session for Researchers Using a Tool to Support Distributed Conversations around Digital Video

This is a hands-on session where participants will have the opportunity to use a software environment called DIVER (Digital Interactive Video Exploration and Reflection)--a web-based tool that allows for distributed conversations around video.  The decreasing cost and increased accessibility of digital video has made it so more and more learning scientists and other researchers are video-capturing segments of human activity for future analysis.  It can still be quite cumbersome, however, to share video data with other researchers who may not be co-located.  DIVER is a platform where researchers can securely upload their video clips and make text-based annotations that are associated with specific points in space and time within the video.  DIVER supports threaded conversations around video clips and also allows researchers to share their analyses via an emailed web-link.
 
Session participants will be given a theoretical overview on the challenges of computer supported collaborative video analysis, a tutorial on how to use DIVER, and the opportunity to work in small groups on a video analysis activity.  Participants will have access in this session to a large video corpus collected by the Family Math Project at Stanford University.  More than 40 hours of video from interviews with 20 families were recorded where the project team sought narrative accounts of math in the daily lives of family members.  All participants will leave the session with a DIVER user account and they will have the opportunity to discuss with session leaders about how to use this tool in their ongoing research efforts.

Please register as soon as possible for the workshop but before April 30 through the CSCL conference site.

Workshop Leaders and Contacts: 
Roy Pea <[email protected]>
Shelley Goldman <[email protected]>
Robb Lindgren <[email protected]>
Joe Rosen <[email protected]>