Deixis Project

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The LSCL
The Laboratory for the Study of Collaboration and
Learning (LSCL) is a state-of-the-art digital
video acquistion and production center that
provides researchers with the capability to 1) do
multiple-perspective and fully synchronized field
audio and video recordings, 2) edit the recorded
video and audio streams into usable data, and 3)
produce and reproduce recordings in VHS, SVHS,
HI-8, miniDV and DVCAM formats, as Quicktime
files and as multi-angle DVDs.
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Some of our Research Interests

• Gesture and Deixis
• Professional Vision
• Embedded Contexts
• The Constitution of Work Sites
• Conceptual Change
• Problem Based Learning
• Membership Categorization Analysis and the
  Instantiation of Institutional Relevances

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The Lab
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Data Acquisition
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Video Recordings
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Editing
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Transcription
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Deixis Project

• Tim Koschmann, Ph.D. - Southern Illinois
  University
• Alan Zemel, Ph.D. - Southern Illinois University
• Gary Dunnington, M.D. - Southern Illinois
  University
• Chuck Goodwin, Ph.D. - U.C.L.A.
• Curtis LeBaron - Brigham Young University
• Paul Feltovich, Ph.D. - Institute for Human and
  Machine Cognition
• Sanjeev Dutta, M.D. - University of Toronto

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Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGE How to make multi-perspective data
acquisition and audio/video recordings of digital
interfaces, interaction SOLUTION Use
off-the-shelf hardware and software to produce an
integrated editing system with time code
synchronization. Cameras and recorders, audio and
video editing software and hardware were all
capable of recording and processing time-code
synchronization
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Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGE How to do field work in the operating
room (OR) SOLUTION Become knowledgeable about
and practiced in the workflow of the OR, the
hospital and the medical school be observant
ask questions learn medicine develop field work
practices consistent with the needs of the
patient and the OR staff assess and manage
health risks to field workers fit technology to
the working environment of the OR.
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Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGE How to inventory and organize the
corpus of recorded information. SOLUTION Edit
and transfer recordings to video DVD showing
multiple perspectives using the angle function
produce transcripts produce a log of noticings
of instructional practices.
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Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGE How to inventory and organize the
corpus of recorded information. SOLUTION Edit
and transfer recordings to video DVD showing
multiple perspectives using the angle function
produce transcripts produce a log of noticings
of instructional practices.
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Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGE How to collaborate with team members
in the analysis of the collected
materials SOLUTION Distribute video DVDs and
transcripts to the project team apply
commonly-used methods of Conversation Analysis
(CA) to the data communicate with team members
by email and telephone meet twice a year to work
on data. In the future, we hope to maintain an
online discussion forum an available application
(e.g., Knowledge Forum, BSCW). This will be a
space in which LSI researchers and surgical
educators will discuss identified actions and
explore their significance, both in terms of what
these actions accomplish, how they work
communicatively and their relevance to education.
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Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGE How to create a community of
scholarship interested in and capable of doing
detailed, descriptive analysis of instructional
practices SOLUTION Invite social scientists,
educational researchers and designers who do
video-based studies to participate in the annual
DataFest workshop where they are given the
opportunity to share data with the project team
and work with the project team to improve their
analytical skills