Sense-Making Curves

The creative sense-making curve generating tool is available on Google Drive at this link, To use the tool follow the instructions below:

1. Open the setup.html file

2. Copy and past the code from a YouTube video into the text box provided. For example, if the youtube link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUs7E8liZU, the part you want to past is after the ?v, so in this case, it would be iFUs7E8liZU.

3. Press the submit button

4. Play the video

5. Ensure that the appropriate behavioral markers have been assigned to the coding values of the tool. The values of the tool are -1 to 1. In this scheme, clamped cognition would be 0, and unclamped cognition would either be above or below that value.

6. To activate the coding selection mechanism click on the square along the vertical spectrum on the right side of the screen.

7. To move the coding selector, use the arrow keys up and down.

8. To slow down the video, click the gear icon in the YouTube video player and select a playback speed.

9. To turn on captions, click closed captions (if available).

10. To download the data, click the download data file.

11. Generate a separate sense-making curve for each participant in the interaction.

To analyze the curve, see technique in Davis et al. 2017, which is essentially using the CumSum function in excel to generate a running cumulative sum of each individual sense-making curve. Then, apply stochastic analysis to the curve to classify different interaction patterns that may be present.

© Nicholas Davis 2022