Zimmerman Patrick H, Bolhuis J Elizabeth, Willemsen Albert, Meyer Erik S, Noldus Lucas P J J
Noldus Information Technology, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Behav Res Methods. 2009 Aug;41(3):731-5. doi: 10.3758/BRM.41.3.731.
The Observer was originally developed as a manual event recorder for the collection, management, analysis, and presentation of observational data in animals. Because of the flexibility of later versions, it became clear that The Observer was suitable for almost any study involving collection of observational data in both animals and humans. Furthermore, the most recent version of The Observer (The Observer XT) allows the integration and synchronization of multimodal signals from various sources, such as observational, video, tracking, and physiological data. This article describes how The Observer XT was used to integrate and synchronize video, observational, tracking, and physiological data from an experiment carried out in 2001 at the Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences of Wageningen University and Research Centre. The integration and synchronization of these multimodal signals in The Observer XT allows the user to draw a more complete picture of the phenomena under study.
《观察者》最初是作为一种手动事件记录器开发的，用于收集、管理、分析和呈现动物的观察数据。由于后期版本的灵活性，很明显《观察者》几乎适用于任何涉及在动物和人类中收集观察数据的研究。此外，《观察者》的最新版本（《观察者XT》）允许整合和同步来自各种来源的多模态信号，如观察、视频、跟踪和生理数据。本文描述了如何使用《观察者XT》来整合和同步2001年在瓦赫宁根大学和研究中心的瓦赫宁根动物科学研究所进行的一项实验中的视频、观察、跟踪和生理数据。在《观察者XT》中对这些多模态信号进行整合和同步，使用户能够更全面地了解所研究的现象。
