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April
2009:
MacSHAPA v1.1.2a is available for download from
this page--see below.
MacSHAPA manual (v1.0.3)
is restored from its 1994 version and is
available for download--see below. |
Background
MacSHAPA is a Macintosh-based software tool for
performing video analysis and for applying a range of
sequential data analysis techniques to the results. It
is distributed free of charge to interested researchers.
Over the years, it has been
supported by researchers wishing to have a priority call
on new MacSHAPA functionality or special customisation
of MacSHAPA for research needs.
MacSHAPA was
initially developed at University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign under Penelope Sanderson's supervision
with funding from the following sources:
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NASA-Ames
Research Centre
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Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base through Logicon Technical Services
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University of
Illinois Research Board
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Defence Science
and Technology Organisation (Australia).
Quite a few
behavioral researchers worldwide have come to depend on
MacSHAPA for analysing video data. However it only runs
on pre-Intel Macintoshes and is no longer directly
supported.
MacSHAPA manual
We have done an
initial restoration of the 1994 MacSHAPA v1.0.3 manual
and mounted it here for download as several Word
documents. It still needs a bit of cleaning up (eg, you
may find pagination glitches, etc).
Once these are in
your Mac environment, you can open them with Microsoft
Word for Mac. They may not open automatically after
download, but if you open them in Word then things
should start moving in the right direction.
MacSHAPA software
Version 1.1.2a is one of the last versions of MacSHAPA.
As with some releases prior to it, it has support for
digital video with QuickTime. There were some moderate
changes to MacSHAPA in each release after v1.0.3 that
were documented in the Release Notes for each version.
There was also a
MacSHAPA v1.2 on limited release from 1998 with our first pass at
plotting continuous data, in X-by-time, X-by-Ord, and
X-by-Y plotting routines.
Current maintenance
MacSHAPA
is no longer directly supported. However, some questions
can be answered by members of the original development
team. Contact
psanderson@itee.uq.edu.au in the first instance.
Professor Penelope
Sanderson
The University of
Queensland
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