emoTouch Web – a web-based system for continuous real time studies with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers

Abstract

emoTouch Web is a new web-based system for designing, conducting and evaluating continuous real-time studies in all disciplines dealing with time-bound phenomena, such as music, theatre, dance, film, commercials, lectures, speeches or sport events. The system uses modern web and network technologies to easily turn every modern smartphone, tablet, or computer into a flexible and reliable research tool for continuous response studies in laboratory, online and live settings. Even the participant’s own devices can be used easily (“Bring-Your-Own-Device”, BYOD). The system contains coordinated tools for the graphical and numerical review, evaluation and analysis of the collected real time data in longitudinal and cross-section. emoTouch Web may be used free of charge for scientific purposes.

Small group conversations: communication behaviour and success

“…Throughout the conversations, audio, visual, and motion capture data were recorded. Following each conversation, participants completed a survey based on the seven key factors of conversation success, with conversation success being assessed during the conversation using a slider [9] and after the conversation using a survey question with five response options on a Likert scale. In this presentation, we focus on the perception of conversation success after the conversation and on participants' vocal activity derived from the audio data stream.…”

Application to combine questioning, stimulus presentation and external measurements in a real-life music eye tracking experiment

“…Modern technologies nowadays can open up new and effective methods in musical research compared to earlier attempts. Therefore, in this pilot study, the survey technique was digitally implemented, inspired by contemporary principles such as ambulatory assessment [ 4 ] and other dynamic measurement applications [ 8 ]. The application was designed as a web app (demo version: [ 3 ]) for the purposes of allowing the experimenter to send questions or stimuli to all participants simultaneously at specific points in time, while allowing study participants to respond at their individual pace.…”

Book Review: Review of Performing Music Research: Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science by Williamon, A., Ginsborg, J., Perkins, R., & Waddell, G.

“…Many of these tools allow for a merging of artistic and scientific priorities in research approaches. Particularly notable developments include online platforms that enable data capture from large numbers of people remotely (Høffding et al, in preparation; Louven et al, 2022), wearable and portable technologies for capture of body motion and physiological data that allow performers and/or listeners to immerse themselves in ecologically-valid musical settings (Bishop et al, 2021a; Høffding et al, in preparation; Jakubowski et al, 2017); and computational modelling techniques that enable studies of large digital corpora (Cancino-Chacón et al, 2018; Chen et al, 2018; Schedl, 2017). In a recent discussion of future directions in music research, Huron (2021) emphasized the value of integrating methods to address questions comprehensively (that is, adopting an integrated bio-psycho-socio-cultural approach).…”