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| Plans, Goals, Objectives, Aims, Completed Work | Updated February, 2025 |
| Content Management Systems Usage This web site is my ongoing attempt to construct a Case Analysis Support Environment. (See CASE and The Notion of a Datacase for further discussion.) The content will include the information I have collected in my case studies, including the video archives, ascriptions of knowledge states and interpretations of learning experiences, and local theories made about those learning experiences. |
It is my further intention to use the facilities of public comment through web logs to foster collaboration with colleagues interested in critical or constructive use of these materials. The objective is to enhance the credibility of case study as a method. |
| Work On the Near Horizon: February 2025 & After | Approaches and Decisions |
| Make Video Clip Data More Accessible: > Our chosen problem to address, now that AI models are making automatic transcription of better quality than formerly, is to render the data content embodied in these video clips more accessible to observation, reflection, and discussion via transcription and subtitling. This access-enhancement of the video events will, we believe, cast new light on processes of development. As we proceed in creating our relational “Threads” through the Infant Study from our perspective, the case material will remain a stable base of information through which others with different questions may thread their way to different and different sorts of answers. When content based threads are published, they will be open to questions, suggestions, comments and so forth. Until then, contact us through nlcsaNet@icloud.com |
Offsite Resources in Use: Using automatic transcription & editing at HappyScribe.com we then: – specify speakers in sequence – make corrections – add action descriptions – add comment on content – produce action micro-episodes as text – integrate and render text as subtitles – install action episodes & subtitled video in NLCSA.net |
| Earlier Work: in limbo since research interruption | Approaches and Decisions |
| Progress begun years ago produced modest results for great effort; the project was further limited by personal and circumstantial constraints. It was too hard. | Advances in automatic transcription may bring the endeavor within range of possibility. We will see. |
| Video Processing and Installation Plans | |
| The archives includes roughly 70 videos of “The Intimate Study” (collected in research at the Logo Project of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1977) and approximately 300 videos of the “Infant Peggy Study” (a six year long weekly chronicle of her development and learning; the first three years, 1978-81, were quite regular; the latter three were less so. The locations were “at home” in Boston, in Connecticut, and in Paris). | The videos have been digitized to produce web-accessible clips of the material. The videos are presented as “Panels,” edited into context-specific episode-clips, “Panes.” Typically there are six to ten Panes in each Panel. |
| The design intention for the Infant Peggy Study is that the original clips will be visible in the Panes of each Panel. As text transcriptions and subtitled renditions of the clips are completed, they will be linked as “Clip Notes” from the individual Pane identification, which appears as a Video Identifier plus content specifier title under the video presented in each Pane of the Panels. Panel P146 with its 7 clipNotes was made as a structure example before high quality automatic transcription and derived subtitling was available. | As work progresses, for the best indication of current contents see LC3cV01 IPS Video Index as well as video panels linked through IPS Threads. |
| Aims: because studying natural learning involves lots of details | Computers can serve as Tools for the Mind |
| Case Study Method Advancement LC3cA2 “Soft” Sciences and “Hard” Problems, LC3A1 CASE: Case Analysis Support Environment, LC0bA4 Consider the Particular Case |
Foci of the Arguments: – the psychology of the particular: the pure case – masses of detail require progressive interpretation – Case Analysis Vs Feynman’s Analysis of Reflection in QED. |
| Case Study Materials Sharing LC3A1 CASE: Case Analysis Support Environment, LC0bA5 Evolving Datacase Designs, LC0aR4 With Heart Upon My Sleeve, – NLCSA first in HTML then via Word Press |
Foci of the Arguments: – openness of data to external critique is essential – Terminated Projects & Lessons Learned – Committing to an Internet Based Facility – Decision to use Word Press Platform |
| Facilities Goals: Website publication as CMS Publish Threads and react to Others’ comments” Publish contributed Posts about IPS |
Current State: NLCSA.net meets that existential goal. Posts of IPS Threads open to comments Forthcoming An essential option when offered. |
| Completed Work | Links to Relevant Completed Work |
| Case Study Corpus Construction for LC1, LC2, LC3 | Online corpora for LC1, LC2, LC3 |
| Case Study Interpretation | See, LC1b NLS; LC2b TIS |
| Selected Articles (1980-2010) | at NLCSA now, see here and here. An earlier site: Learning and Computing (1998-2004) |
| Case Study and Computing (w. K. Carley), 1995 | See Chapters 1 & 2 |
| Artificial Intelligence and Education, Vol. 1 (Ed. w. M. Yazdani),1987; Vol.2, 1991. | See LC0c-AIEd Artificial Intelligence and Education, 1987 & 1991. |
| Cognition and Computers (w. DuBoulay,Hughes,MacLeod), 1986 | See LC1b-NLS Cognition and Computers, 1986. |
| Computer Experience and Cognitive Development, 1985 | See LC2b-TIS Computer Experience and Cognitive Development, 1985 |
| One Child’s Learning (MIT PhD Thesis, Course 6) | Extended as Computer Experience and Cognitive Development |
| Children’s Concept of the English Word (MIT MS Thesis, Course 25) | Not available |
