Some behavioral research requires monitoring activity at (or during) intervals of time. This can be for focal or scan sampling in wildlife behavioral research, or time sampling in psychology. Additional uses include bounding monitoring periods.
Timestamped Field Notes now allows the ability to define configurations of intervals:
- Name of interval configuration
- Interval duration (hours and/or minutes)
- Text to insert into the event to mark each interval
- … and a few others.
These can be associated with an event or a keyword set (to have it apply to each event created with those keywords.)
Intervals are presented on the screen (see screenshot) as a count down above the data entry fields. Intervals can be paused, restarted and/or reset – where the start of interval time is changed to now.
This feature is entering beta testing phase, and anybody willing to give their feedback on this feature – to see if it works well for their uses – is asked to express their interest to info@neukadye.com.
It is too premature to document this feature yet, but when ready it’ll be added to the Timestamped Field Notes documentation.
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