Tools

For the classroom studies we conducted a whole collection of tools has been developed. They can be categorized in the following way:

• capture tools: help to gather data from study participants and join this data in our common data source - a relational DB
• processing tools: calculate / post process data in the DB to retrieve non captured and higher level data
• analyze tools: provide views on the DB in order to support the validation of hypotheses and to gain new insights
• knowledge bases: present the derived knowledge of analyze processes

Some of these tools have been developed especially for our research purposes and environments others are also applicable in similar studies or related research domains. For later ones we provide information about functionality, requirements and applicability. They can be downloaded or requested on the according tool sites.

The picture below shows the whole system framework and dataflow: