explanation
architecture
project:
Video As Data
architects:
Tamara Lackner & Brian K. Smith
The use of film and video in classroom
settings is limited to relatively inactive viewing accompanied by listening
to a celebrity narrator. We are developing tools that allow video
to be used as "data" for active investigation of complex behaviors.
One project in this area, Animal Landlord, had high school students annotating
nature films and developing qualitative models of animal behavior.
Our current work looks at social processes, focusing on the construction
of "early warning" models for historical events (e.g., studying the onset
of genocide in the 20th century).
