The revised NEUROGES–ELAN system: An objective and reliable interdisciplinary analysis tool for nonverbal behavior and gesture

Lausberg, Hedda; Sloetjes, Han

doi:10.3758/s13428-015-0622-z

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“…Facial expressions, for example, can be analyzed by software such as Face Reader, which can distinguish between facial and emotional mimicry. Gestures, in turn, which also have an important role in human communication (Holle et al, 2012 ; Mashal et al, 2012 ), even in children (Lederer and Battaglia, 2015 ) can be effectively analyzed using programs such as NEUROGES+ELAN (Lausberg and Sloetjes, 2009 , 2016 ). Finally, vocal behavior (Russ et al, 2008 ) can be analyzed using sound analysis software.…”

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Indirect Observation in Everyday Contexts: Concepts and Methodological Guidelines within a Mixed Methods Framework

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Indirect observation is a recent concept in systematic observation. It largely involves analyzing textual material generated either indirectly from transcriptions of audio recordings of verbal behavior in natural settings (e.g., conversation, group discussions) or directly from narratives (e.g., letters of complaint, tweets, forum posts). It may also feature seemingly unobtrusive objects that can provide relevant insights into daily routines. All these materials constitute an extremely rich source of information for studying everyday life, and they are continuously growing with the burgeoning of new technologies for data recording, dissemination, and storage. Narratives are an excellent vehicle for studying everyday life, and quantitization is proposed as a means of integrating qualitative and quantitative elements. However, this analysis requires a structured system that enables researchers to analyze varying forms and sources of information objectively. In this paper, we present a methodological framework detailing the steps and decisions required to quantitatively analyze a set of data that was originally qualitative. We provide guidelines on study dimensions, text segmentation criteria, ad hoc observation instruments, data quality controls, and coding and preparation of text for quantitative analysis. The quality control stage is essential to ensure that the code matrices generated from the qualitative data are reliable. We provide examples of how an indirect observation study can produce data for quantitative analysis and also describe the different software tools available for the various stages of the process. The proposed method is framed within a specific mixed methods approach that involves collecting qualitative data and subsequently transforming these into matrices of codes (not frequencies) for quantitative analysis to detect underlying structures and behavioral patterns. The data collection and quality control procedures fully meet the requirement of flexibility and provide new perspectives on data integration in the study of biopsychosocial aspects in everyday contexts.

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Section: From Systematic To Indirect Observationmentioning

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“…Duchowski 2007. Die Annotation und Auswertung der hier dargestellten Blickdaten erfolgte in ELAN (Lausberg/Sloetjes 2016).…”

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2020

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Narrating is a crucial activity in theatre rehearsals. Through this activity, narratives are performed, expanded, reinterpreted, or even completely improvised. The communicative practices used by theatre professionals to develop a play as a theatrical narrative have rarely been researched, both in linguistics and theatre studies. Therefore, this paper addresses how actors, directors, and other members of a theatre production collectively develop monologues as self-contained narratives within a play. The research focuses on how narrators and listeners, as an interactional ensemble, use multimodal actions to realize such monologues. Surprisingly, the co-narrators don’t appear to imagine their future audience but construct the narrations in situ with and for the present members. This observation especially becomes evident when mobile eye-tracking glasses measure the co-narrators’ gaze behavior. It shows that members of a theatre rehearsal perform different activities (e. g., improvising, reading, prompting, instructing, discussing, monitoring) with regard to local interactional requirements. This paper illustrates the procedures with which theatre-makers produce monologues as multimodal narratives and highlights the differences that distinguish such narratives in theatre from spontaneous everyday storytellings.

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“…First, there are assumptions that automated coding is inherently superior to coding done by human observers, no matter how highly trained and skilled they may be. For example, there have been suggestions that nonverbal behavioral coding systems executed manually by human observers—including those designed to recognize and code a range of gestures—can suffer from low reliability and a substantial or complete lack of objectivity (Lauberg and Sloetjies, 2016 ; Mahmoud and Robinson, 2016 ). While we do not underestimate the challenges involved in coding movement, we do not agree that human observers are fundamentally non-objective and machines are inherently unbiased.…”

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“…A complementary perspective on machine coding of nonverbal behavior, including gesture, should also be considered, as it flips the “bias” in terms of human vs. machine coding. It has been suggested that while much progress has been made in machine recognition of nonverbal indicators of cognitive states (Mahmoud et al, 2016 ), automated coding systems are often deficient in terms of predictive validity for a range of psychological functions (Lauberg and Sloetjies, 2016 ). This is a critically important point, in that it reinforces the complexity of detecting the meaning in human movement as it unfolds in real time, and the challenge of designing a machine to achieve the insight of highly trained human observers with decades of experience.…”

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Embodied Decision-Making Style: Below and Beyond Cognition

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Rende

2018

Front. Psychol.

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There is growing recognition of the essential role of sensorimotor processes as not just a supporter of the cognitive aspects of decision making, but rather as a foundation for all the coordinated physical and mental activities that go into how we make decisions. We illuminate concepts and methods for examining embodied decision making through the lens of Movement Pattern Analysis (MPA). MPA is as a prime example of a conceptually rooted observational methodology for deciphering embodied decision making and for decoding how people differ as decision makers with respect to cognitive motivational priorities. The historical origins of MPA that predated the formalized recognition of embodied cognition are presented, along with an overview of both the theoretical model and methodology. Advances in research on two psychometric benchmarks of observational research—inter-rater reliability and predictive validity—are highlighted as an empirical platform for the strong promise of MPA as a tool for understanding individual differences in embodied decision-making style. Future directions for research are considered—specifically with respect to the potential for utilizing automated coding, and the need for collaborative neuroscience research efforts—which would support further understanding of how decoding movement patterning captures human motivation at the level of sensory, motoric, cognitive and action integration which drives how people function as decision makers.

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The revised NEUROGES–ELAN system: An objective and reliable interdisciplinary analysis tool for nonverbal behavior and gesture

Cited by 49 publications

References 53 publications

Indirect Observation in Everyday Contexts: Concepts and Methodological Guidelines within a Mixed Methods Framework

Indirect Observation in Everyday Contexts: Concepts and Methodological Guidelines within a Mixed Methods Framework

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Embodied Decision-Making Style: Below and Beyond Cognition

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