Many joint attentions are hard to code and most often can be identified based on a multitude of Codes and Events that are already coded.
Parallel Behavior
If your joint attention periods are based on a specific combination of overlapping Codes, identifying those period is usually easy:
▪Use the Co-occurrence Filter to create Events for all overlapping situations.
Successive Behavior
More complicated is the identification of a cycle of 2 or more behaviors that are considered to be a joint attention.
Note: In complicated cases, it is best to consider this during the setup of your coding system, to simplify identification later on, like described in Identify chains of communication - ask our support for details.
To identify the successions (or the distance between two specific Codes) and create corresponding Events that cover the exact period, you can use the Contingency Analysis.
Example: Presume that you have logged Events whenever a child is looking either at an object or its mother (Gaze_Object, Gaze_Mother). And whenever the child switches looks between object and mother successively, whiteout a noticeable gap, it is considered to be a joint attention.
Find successions
The easiest way to identify specific successions like this is with the help of the Workflow-Editor.
Note: The Workflow editor to create custom work-flows is part of INTERACT Professional and Premium or INTERACT 20.
Create Sequence Search Work-flow
A work-flow can contain a range or routines that can be applied at once to you current data file.
▪Open the Workflow Editor using the command Start - Advanced - Workflows 
> Workflow Editor
▪Double-click the module Source document in the left pane to add it to your work-flow.
▪Find the Sequence search module and double-click that modul to add it to your work-flow.
▪Double-click the module Destination document to also add it to your work-flow.
▪Select the Source document and press the CTRL key while you click on the Sequence search module.
▪Hold the CTRL key while you click on the Destination document modul.
Now all modules are linked like this:
Configure Sequence Search
