Sponsorship

For those that don't know, Mangold Interact is a powerful video analysis package that allows you to code and analyse your data (for an overview see http://www.mangold.de/english/). It is ideally suited to looking at Design protocols. For this reason I asked the head of the company - Pascal Mangold - whether he'd be interested in sponsoring DTRS7 and I got an extremely enthusiastic reply:

"This sounds wonderful!!

"Especially because yesterday we had a big meeting about our own conference which is about "Methods in behavioral research". I came up with this idea 2 years ago because we - as vendor of systems for behavioral research - see lots of people "re-inventing the wheel" again and again because they don't know that others already have worked out good methods for this and that. The idea of this conference is mainly to provide 'interdisciplinary knowledge about methods in behavioral research'.

"If I understood your intention correctly, your conference fits ideally (in a certain angle) into our ideas.

"That's why I would be happy to sponsor the technical basis for this contest! Thus everyone would be able to start at the same level and the data would be easily comparable. This is highly exciting... and I'm very curious about the outcome!"

I asked if he'd give a discount or a free trial period for participants to DTRS7 who don't (yet) have the software, and also if he'd like to give a talk or workshop on using the software / analysing the data at the symposium itself. I didn't get a concrete reply here but will follow this up.

I think by giving the option of using similar software for analysis the discussion could be even more focussed at the event.