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Starting BORIS#

Once BORIS App is installed, it can be launched by taping on its icon.

The BORIS main window will appear. At this stage, all toolbar commands are disabled except the Preferences button.

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The BORIS App main screen

Open a project#

  • Press the Open project button

A list of available BORIS project files will open

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The list of BORIS projects
  • Select a file and press the Open project button

BORIS App will show a summary of the selected project:

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Details of the project

Start a new observation#

  • Press the New observation button

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New observation

  • Input an Observation id (mandatory, this id must be unique in your project)

  • Change the date (optional, default: current date time)

  • Input a description for your observation (optional)

  • If independent variables are defined, click on the Independent var button and fill the value for each variable.

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The independent variables defined in the project
  • Press the Start observation button

You will obtain a screen with buttons corresponding to behaviors defined in your project. You can press it to code behaviors. The event time will be recorded in your observation.

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The running observation

If behavioral categories are defined in your project, the behaviors will be grouped by category and buttons will be colored.

Select the focal subject#

  • Press the Select focal subject button

  • Select the focal subject. If the focal subject is already selected, the subject will be deselected.

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Select the focal subject

The focal subject will be show in the green button (at left bottom).

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The running observation with a subject selected

State events#

If you press on a state event, the corresponding behavior button will be highlighted in red until you press it again to stop the state event.

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A state event

Modifiers selection#

If modifiers are defined for the triggered behavior, BORIS App will show the modifiers page.

They are 3 types of modifiers:

  • Single item selection from a list

  • Multiple items selection from a list

  • Numerical

Various sets of modifiers can be defined for a behavior.

BORIS App will show a page with all sets of modifiers defined for the current behavior.

Example for one set of modifiers (single item).#

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One set of single modifier

Example for one set of modifiers (multiple items). 2 modifiers are selected.#

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One set of multiple modifiers

Example for 2 sets of modifiers (single item)#

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2 sets of modifiers

Stop the observation#

  • Press the Stop observation red button. Confirm that you want to stop the observation.

The observation will be saved in the current project.

Limitations#

These limitations should be fixed in next releases.

  • BORIS App can not handle independent variables defined as set of values