A decision in favor of a given tool is guided by usability and learnability issues, cost, and by the possibility that the tool can constrain as well as augment a user’s analysis options. An ISGS’05 workshop (http://vislab.cs.vt.edu/~gesture/multimodal/workshop/index.html), attended by more than 100 researchers, initiated a community-wide discussion of these issues. For ISGS’07, we propose to hold a second such workshop, designed to advance the discussion already begun, address a wider range of analysis issues, and engage more community members.
We propose a 90-minute thematic panel, comprising presentations by researchers who are active users of the featured tools (to include Anvil, ELAN, VisSTA, Transana; others). Presenters will compare past experiences with other tools for annotation/analysis with their current experience using their tool(s) of choice. Presentations will include demonstrations of how to use the tools and their functionalities. Presentations and a wrap-up discussion of the tools’ capabilities and limitations will be moderated by Duncan and Rohlfing, authors of the report on the ISGS’05 workshop (Rohlfing, Loehr, Duncan, et al. 2006, Gesprächsforschung, www.gespraechsforschung-ozs.de).
This workshop for software endusers is intended as a companion to a separate workshop for developers also being proposed for ISGS’07: “Annotation Interchange among Multimodal Annotation Tools” (Loehr & Rose). The latter will bring developers of many of the same tools featured in the workshop proposed here and they will be available to endusers during the conference for questions and consultation.
Back to Multimodal Annotation Tools Workshop site.