Features

• Coding of video and audio files

  • integrated playback at various speeds (from x0.1 to x100).
  • up to 8 media files can be synchronously played.
  • a time offset parameter allows to synchronize all players.
  • media can be enqueued (the recorded time will be the cumulative time over all queued media files)
  • frame-by-frame mode (forward and backward).

• Event logging for live observations

  • with the desktop program or the BORIS App for Android

• Coding from picture directories (for camera trap observations for example)

• Unlimited number of behaviors.

  • behaviors can be defined as State events (with duration) or Point events (no duration)
  • can be organized in behavioral categories.

• Unlimited number of modifiers for each behavior.

  • various types are available: single selection, multiple selection, numeric or from external values
  • can be organized in an unlimited number of sets.

• Unlimited number of subjects.

  • the focal subject selection can be made from a Subjects pad (useful for touch screens but not only).

• Unlimited number of independent variables.

  • various types are available: text, numeric, timestamp or set of values

• Exclusion matrix for mutually exclusive behaviors definition

• The behavior coding can be done with keyboard, mouse, by using a behaviors coding map or a coding pad (for touch screens)

• External data visualization from plain text files (TSV, CSV ...).

  • Native or custom converters can be used for converting external data timestamp in seconds.

• Sound spectrogram and waveform visualization

• Geometric measurements

  • (mark, distance, area and angle).

• Coefficient of inter-rater reliability (IRR):

  • Cohen's Kappa.

• Transition matrix

• Flow diagram

  • The GraphViz program is required.

• Coded events can be exported in various formats for further analysis:

  • Plain text formats (TSV, CSV and HTML)
  • Spreadsheets (Open Document ODS, Microsoft-Excel XLSX and XLS)
  • Pandas and R dataframes
  • Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • SDIS for analysis with the GSEQ program.
  • Praat TextGrid
  • Behavioral strings for analysis with Behatrix or other tools.
  • JWatcher

• Time budget analysis

  • Various time budget formats are available:

    • Time budget
    • Time budget by behavioral category
    • Synthetic time budget.
    • Synthetic time budget with time bin

  • Results can be exported in various formats:

    • Plain text formats (TSV, CSV, HTML)
    • Spreadsheets (Open Document, Microsoft-Excel XLSX and XLS)
    • Pandas and R dataframes

• Graphical representation of coded data

  • The plots can be exported in various formats to be included in scientific presentations:

    • SVG format
    • Portable Document Format (PDF)
    • Postscript (PS or EPS)
    • Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
    • JPEG
    • Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

• Video equalizer with brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma and hue parameter.

• Extract frames or video sequences from video files (corresponding to the coded events)

• Media files utilities: Re-size / re-encode, rotate and merge.

• Creation of video subtitles based on coded events and subjects

• Run on small devices

• Use of open format for storing data (JSON) to allow further analysis

• Import of Global Definition File from JWatcher

• Import of OTX/OTB template files from Noldus The Observer XT