| Abstract: | Recording and analyzing real-time interactions in clinical settings is important for basic and applied research in psychology
and other disciplines. Investigators frequently have used simple audiotaping procedures to record these encounters (e.g.,
Roter, Geller, Bernhardt, Larson, & Doksum, 1999), but videorecording is increasingly viewed as more reliable and valid, because
it captures the full range of complex and interdependent verbal and nonverbal behaviors that occur in an interaction. This
article describes a system designed to videotape clinical interactions in a manner that can be moved in and out of different
clinical rooms to preserve flexibility in its use. Data are presented to demonstrate that the system is unobtrusive during
the interaction, yet fully compatible with institutional review board guidelines to protect human participants’ privacy and
freedom to control the recording process. |
