Web tools for cognitive anthropology

贝尔纳这个项目将使人类学研究人员能够利用Educara调查系统在互联网上收集数据。该系统包括来自认知科学的方法，包括自由列表的收集、堆排序、配对比较、三合一测试和框架替换。有了这个项目中创建的新系统，人们可以在网上，在世界任何地方，与他们在屏幕上看到的一组卡片进行互动，并用鼠标将卡片移动到一堆，就像他们在面对面的堆排序任务中一样。本研究开发的系统还建立了基于互联网的调查。例如，研究人员给系统一个项目列表进行堆排序，系统建立一个堆排序模块。登录到互联网上的人会看到一个屏幕，上面有随机排列的卡片分类项目，并将卡片分成一堆，就像他们在面对面的分类中一样。系统记录信息并产生可被标准程序读取以供分析的数据。更广泛的影响通常，使用新系统中的工具进行的研究是在少数受访者中完成的。有了基于互联网的工具，社会科学领域的学者（包括人类学、社会学和社会心理学的基础研究人员，以及市场营销、护理和教育领域的应用研究人员）将能够使用这个新系统对世界各地的受访者进行研究。该系统还将使这些方法的教学和实践变得更加容易。有了以计算机为基础的教学，就有可能向世界各地的学生教授全面的定性和定量研究方法。

0244104BERNARDThis project will make it possible for anthropological researchers to collect data, over the Internet, using the Educara Survey system. The system includes methods from cognitive science including the collection of free lists, pile sorts, paired comparisons, triad tests, and frame substitutions. With the new system created in this project people will interact, online, from anywhere in the world, with a set of cards that they see laid out on the screen, and move the cards, with a mouse, into piles, just as they would in a face-to-face pile sort task. The system being developed in this research also builds Internet-based surveys. For example, a researcher gives the system a list of items for a pile sort and the system builds a pile sort module. People who are logged onto the Internet see a screen with the pile sort items arranged randomly and move the cards into piles, just as they would in a face-to- face pile sort. The system records the information and produces data that can be read by standard programs for analysis. Broader ImpactsTypically, research done with the tools in the new system is done with a small number of respondents. With the Internet-based tools, scholars across the social sciences (including basic researchers in anthropology, sociology, and social psychology, as well as applied researchers in marketing, nursing, and education) will be able to use the new system for studies with respondents around the world. The system will also make teaching and practicing these methods much easier. With computer-based instruction, it will be possible to teach the full range of qualitative and quantitative research methods to students anywhere in the world.