title: The Simple Video Coder: A free tool for efficiently coding social video data.
abstract: Videotaping of experimental sessions is a common practice across many disciplines of psychology, ranging from clinical therapy, to developmental science, to animal research. Audio-visual data are a rich source of information that can be easily recorded; however, analysis of the recordings presents a major obstacle to project completion. Coding behavior is time-consuming and often requires ad-hoc training of a student coder. In addition, existing software is either prohibitively expensive or cumbersome, which leaves researchers with inadequate tools to quickly process video data. We offer the Simple Video Coder-free, open-source software for behavior coding that is flexible in accommodating different experimental designs, is intuitive for students to use, and produces outcome measures of event timing, frequency, and duration. Finally, the software also offers extraction tools to splice video into coded segments suitable for training future human coders or for use as input for pattern classification algorithms.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2220, 1, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA. dbarto@unm.edu.
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Barto
authors: Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2220, 1, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
authors: Clark W
authors: CW
authors: Bird
authors: Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2220, 1, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
authors: Derek A
authors: DA
authors: Hamilton
authors: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Clinical and Translational Science Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
authors: Brandi C
authors: BC
authors: Fink
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001519:Behavior; D059019:Clinical Coding; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014741:Video Recording
keywords: Behavior coding; Open-source software; Video analysis