Title: Tablet PCs as Mobile Multimedia Data Collection
1Tablet PCs as Mobile Multimedia Data Collection
Analysis ToolsMalu Roldan, Ph.D.Associate
ProfessorSan Jose State UniversityPrincipal
InvestigatorSJSUHP Mobility Project
2Project GoalInvolve Multidisciplinary Teams in
the development of Tablet-PC enabled mobile
applications for the community
Portability Connectivity Hypermedia
Ink
3VideoTabletPCs Across Campus
- Journalism
- Teacher Training
- Management
- Library
- Education
- Art and Illustration
- Health Science
4AnytimeAnywhereAny Position
- Editing Student Work
- Student feedback during Field Observations
- Digital Illustration
- Collaboration
- Customer Service (Library)
- Field Research
5Anthropology
- Professor Chuck Darrah
- First Reaction --Replace/Enhance field work
procedures
6Qualitative Research Capturing
Others/Multiple Perspectives
- Ethnography
- Community Based Participatory Research (e.g.
Photovoice) - Interviews/Focus Groups
- Content Analysis
7Applications
- Research
- Anthropology
- Health Science
- Industrial Design
- Product Development
- IDEO
- Lead User Studies
- Used to develop many familiar and successful
products including Intuits Quicken, First Apple
Mouse, Microsofts Tablet PC, HP Consumer Devices
8What is OneNote?A portable, multimedia, digital
file cabinet
9Tablet PC Data Collection
- Multimedia Data
- Text synchronized with video and audio
- Diagrams Other clippings
- Collaborative Data Collection
- Connectivity allows for real-time collaboration
on single document - Connectivity allows for publishing from the field
10Tablet PC Data Analysis
- Field notes can call attention to compelling
video/audio materials - Flags to tag/code content
- Multimedia Search recognized text, ink, text in
graphics, audio - Search Summaries
11Annotating multimedia data
- Presentations recorded using webcam or other
video camera - Annotations linked to video
- Video and notes may be emailed with OneNote page
12Community Based Learning User-led Design
- OneNote used to capture user impressions of
community asset mapping application v1 - Developer team notes user suggested tweaks
- Audio synched to notes
13Community-Based Research Hypertext Reports
- Students used OneNote to build multimedia notes
on their community visits - Multimedia materials (e.g. WMA files) used in
reports in OneNote, on the Web, in powerpoint
14Analysis withFlags to tag notes Multimedia
Search
15Emerging Platform for Qualitative Research
- Ubiquitous Connectivity 802.11x and/or 3G
- Repositionable Video Recorder
- Advances in Multimedia Search and recognition
- User-managed Privacy
- Software as a Service
16Beta Site Demo
Questions and Comments?
www.sjsu.edu/cats/2003/showcase/