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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.
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This project has been funded by Grant 5 R01 CA75003-A3 from the National Cancer Center/National Institutes of Health to T.L.A.
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Albrecht, T.L., Ruckdeschel, J.C., Ray, F.L. et al. A portable, unobtrusive device for videorecording clinical interactions. Behavior Research Methods 37, 165–169 (2005). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206411
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206411