WayTracer: A mobile assistant for real-time logging of events and related positions.
In addition to logging observation categories and their timestamps, researchers sometimes wish to record observation-related positions. Such data are relevant for research in human spatial cognition, market research and behavioral biology, to mention only a few. Another desideratum is to avoid time-...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 1156 - 1165 |
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Elsevier Science
September 2009
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