[Air-L] iPad as Research Tool

[Alex Halavais]

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 at 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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