With INTERACT, you can log simultaneous occurring behavior as easy as logging one single kind of behavior.
Note: For all coding methods and coding systems, you can collect overlapping behavior in multiple passes through your video(s).
Observing different types of behavior per pass thought the video means that you concentrate on a limited number of behavior or a single person per pass.
When finished, simply wind back the video to log the next behavior type. This results in Events (partly) overlapping in time and they are visualized as such in the Timeline Chart. This work exactly like logging non overlapping behavior!
| TIP: | You can also use different observers for collecting different types of behavior and merge all Events afterwards. |
In addition to the multiple passes, you can log multiple Events simultaneously. How this works, depends on the chosen coding mode:
 | Using one Code per Event (Standard Coding Mode) - This coding mode was designed to log (partial) overlapping Events: |
▪Press a predefined [key] for every occurring kind of behavior.
Depending on the order of occurrence of the behavior, you can either press all [keys] needed at the same time* or one after another.
▪Read Log overlapping Events - Standard, for an explanation using the default settings.
▪Read Log Overlapping Events - Push & Release mode, if you'd like to keep your keys pressed.
| Using multiple Codes per Event (Lexical (post-hoc) Coding Mode) - This coding mode was designed to log sequential, exhaustive Events, using the SPACEBAR for all situations. The lexical Coding mode can also be used to log overlapping Events, if you log each Event directly with the corresponding top level Code, instead of the SPACEBAR. |
▪A step by step example can be found in Log overlapping Events - Lexical.
| Log Exhaustive States per Subject (Complex Coding Mode) - This method was developed especially for coding multiple subjects during live observation, which of course includes overlapping Events, but only among subjects! |
▪Read Log Events - Complex for details.
Note: Even entering several Observation Codes (into various Classes) by one single keystroke is possible!
Read Log several Codes by one single keystroke for details.