Spontan-authentische Liveaufnahmen als Forschungsmaterial. Empirische Perspektiven und methodische Überlegungen im Kontext der Gewaltforschung

Braunsmann K, Wagner F. Spontan-authentische Liveaufnahmen als Forschungsmaterial. Empirische Perspektiven und methodische Überlegungen im Kontext der Gewaltforschung. ORDEX Working Paper. Vol 02. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2018.Der vorliegende Text beschäftigt sich mit spontan-authentischen Liveaufnahmen als Forschungsmaterial. Ziel des Textes ist es, einen Beitrag für die Verwendung und Analyse dieser Aufnahmen in der qualitativen Sozialforschung zu leisten. Der Beitrag entwickelt durch die Diskussion seiner Charakteristika sowohl eine Definition des Materials, als auch eine Methode, mit der diese Form von Liveaufnahmen notiert werden kann. Ausgehend von einer Reflexion der Transkriptionsarbeit an einem Video zu einem gewaltsoziologischen Projekt wird unter der Fragestellung, welche Anforderungen ein Notationssystem erfüllen sollte, um spontanauthentische Liveaufnahmen zu analysieren, ein methodischer Vorschlag gemacht: SPLINOS

Report of the annual meeting of the Society for Medical Education in the German speaking countries, virtual from the ETH Zürich 2021.

After the successful GMA Annual Meeting 2016 in Bern [1], we were “innovative together” for a second time in 2021. The GMA Annual Meeting 2021 was jointly organized by medical education and healthcare institutions in the Zurich area and the Medical Faculty of Bern, namely: University of Zurich, Medical Faculty; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich; Careum Bildungsmanagement; Zurich University of Applied Sciences; University of Lucerne, Department of Health Sciences and Medicine; and Medical Faculty of Bern, with the Institute for Medical Education. After the GMA 2020 had to be postponed due to the Corona Pandemic, it was decided to hold the 2021 meeting online to ensure a higher planning reliability and to ensure to definitely be able to organise the GMA Annual Meeting again. Innovatively, we have thus implemented the first ever online annual meeting of the GMA

Beat It! Gesture-based Prominence Annotation as a Window to Individual Prosody Processing Strategies

Wagner P, Cwiek A, Samlowski B. Beat It! Gesture-based Prominence Annotation as a Window to Individual Prosody Processing Strategies. In: Draxler C, Kleber F, eds. Tagungsband der 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum. München, Deutschland: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 2016: 211-214

Investigating the communicative function of breathing and non-breathing "silent" pauses

Cwiek A, Neueder S, Wagner P. Investigating the communicative function of breathing and non-breathing "silent" pauses. In: Draxler C, Kleber F, eds. Tagungsband der 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum. München, Deutschland: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 2016: 27-29

Beat It! Gesture-based Prominence Annotation as a Window to Individual Prosody Processing Strategies

Wagner P, Cwiek A, Samlowski B. Beat It! Gesture-based Prominence Annotation as a Window to Individual Prosody Processing Strategies. In: Draxler C, Kleber F, eds. Tagungsband der 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum. München, Deutschland: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 2016: 211-214

Deriving a strategy for synthesizing lengthening disfluencies based on spontaneous conversational speech data

Betz S, Wagner P, Voße J. Deriving a strategy for synthesizing lengthening disfluencies based on spontaneous conversational speech data. In: Draxler C, Kleber F, eds. Tagungsband der 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum. München: LMU; 2016: 19-22

Position determination of resident space objects via triangulation with two passive-optical staring systems

The number of space objects orbiting the Earth is rapidly increasing. An opportunity to detect and measure the position of space objects are passive optical staring systems, e.g. our system called APPARILLO. While staring systems are capable of measuring highly accurate equatorial coordinates of space objects via an astrometric calibration, they do not provide information on their altitude unless the space object is assumed to fly on a circular orbit. In this work we discuss an approach in which the altitude of a space object is measured via triangulation (simultaneous observation with two staring systems placed at different positions on Earth). Based on theoretical calculations, we estimate that the triangulation with two staring systems can provide the altitude of a typical space object in a low Earth orbit with an accuracy as low as 200 m. This is two orders of magnitude better compared to a simple circular orbit approximation that can be used for a single staring system

The 2021 German Federal Election on Social Media: Analysing Electoral Risks Created by Twitter and Facebook

Safeguarding democratic elections is hard. Social media plays a vital role in the discourse around elections and during electoral campaigns. The following article provides an analysis of the ‘systemic electoral risks’ created by Twitter and Facebook and the mitigation strategies employed by the platforms. It is based on the 2020 proposal by the European Commission for the new Digital Services Act (DSA) in the context of the 2021 German federal elections. This article focuses on Twitter and Facebook and their roles during the German federal elections that took place on 26 September 2021. We analysed three systemic electoral risk categories: 1) the dissemination of illegal content, 2) negative effects on electoral rights, and 3) the influence of disinformation and developed systematic categories for this purpose. In conclusion, we discuss how to respond to these challenges as well as avenues for future research

Mixed methods instrument validation: Evaluation procedures for practitioners developed from the validation of the Swiss Instrument for Evaluating Interprofessional Collaboration.

BACKGROUND Quantitative and qualitative procedures are necessary components of instrument development and assessment. However, validation studies conventionally emphasise quantitative assessments while neglecting qualitative procedures. Applying both methods in a mixed methods design provides additional insights into instrument quality and more rigorous validity evidence. Drawing from an extensive review of the methodological and applied validation literature on mixed methods, we showcase our use of mixed methods for validation which applied the quality criteria of congruence, convergence, and credibility on data collected with an instrument measuring interprofessional collaboration in the context of Swiss healthcare, named the Swiss Instrument for Evaluating Interprofessional Collaboration. METHODS We employ a convergent parallel mixed methods design to analyse quantitative and qualitative questionnaire data. Data were collected from staff, supervisors, and patients of a university hospital and regional hospitals in the German and Italian speaking regions of Switzerland. We compare quantitative ratings and qualitative comments to evaluate the quality criteria of congruence, convergence, and credibility, which together form part of an instrument's construct validity evidence. RESULTS Questionnaires from 435 staff, 133 supervisors, and 189 patients were collected. Analysis of congruence potentially provides explanations why respondents' comments are off topic. Convergence between quantitative ratings and qualitative comments can be interpreted as an indication of convergent validity. Credibility provides a summary evaluation of instrument quality. These quality criteria provide evidence that questions were understood as intended, provide construct validity, and also point to potential item quality issues. CONCLUSIONS Mixed methods provide alternative means of collecting construct validity evidence. Our suggested procedures can be easily applied on empirical data and allow the congruence, convergence, and credibility of questionnaire items to be evaluated. The described procedures provide an efficient means of enhancing the rigor of an instrument and can be used alone or in conjunction with traditional quantitative psychometric approaches

Relations among fluid intelligence, sensory discrimination and working memory in middle to late childhood – A latent variable approach

Two factors that have been suggested as key in explaining individual differences in fluid intelligence are working memory and sensory discrimination ability. A latent variable approach was used to explore the relative contributions of these two variables to individual differences in fluid intelligence in middle to late childhood. A sample of 263 children aged 7–12 years was examined. Correlational analyses showed that general discrimination ability (GDA)and working memory (WM) were related to each other and to fluid intelligence. Structural equation modeling showed that within both younger and older age groups and the sample as a whole, the relation between GDA and fluid intelligence could be accounted for by WM. While WM was able to predict variance in fluid intelligence above and beyond GDA, GDA was not able to explain significant amounts of variance in fluid intelligence, either in the whole sample or within the younger or older age group. We concluded that compared to GDA, WM should be considered the better predictor of individual differences in fluid intelligence in childhood. WM and fluid intelligence, while not being separable in middle childhood, develop at different rates, becoming more separable with age