TUTORIAL

Advanced video tracking and path analysis with EthoVision

Andrew Spink

(Noldus Information Technology bv, Wageningen, The Netherlands)

Benefits

Participants will learn how to use the advanced features of EthoVision 3.1. They can request particular topics (by e-mail) in advance or during the meeting.

Features

Depending on demand, the tutorial will cover the following topics:

  • Manual event recorder
  • Working with the acquisition zone definition, read-only arenas and zones
  • Automated experiment control and series of trials
  • Hidden zones
  • Exporting EthoVision data to The Observer
  • Advanced analysis features
  • TTL-out
  • Using EthoVision with the Phenotyper
  • Using EthoVision Pro with 100 arenas

If you would like a topic covered that is not indicated here, please e-mail the tutor: a.spink@noldus.nl.

Audience

This tutorial is intended for novice or experienced users of EthoVision. Basic understanding of EthoVision 3 is required.

Presentation

PowerPoint presentation, demonstration and discussion.

Instructor's resume

Dr. Andrew Spink is manager of the services department at Noldus Information Technology. He has given EthoVision trainings in many different countries and is responsible of the worldwide technical support of EthoVision (as well as other Noldus products). He has also written much of the current reference manual, and designed some of the advanced features in EthoVision. Before working for Noldus he had ten years of experience in experimental ecological research.


Last updated: 20 October 2005