NAVIGATION
Index
1.0 Background
2.0 Ways of Working
3.0 Why Video?
4.0 Video & Reality
5.0 Camera Effects
6.0 Foci for Analysis
7.0 Conclusions
8.0 Acknowledgments
Appendices
References
Footnotes
Contact Authors

APPENDIX D:

Example of a Content Log

(from unpublished content log by Brigitte Jordan, 1990)


Ops-A: Operator who communicates with jets
PSP: Passenger Service Planner
BP: Baggage Planner
Ops-B: Operator who communicates with commuter planes
SUP: Operations Room Supervisor
AA: Atlantic Airlines (pseudonym)
- -
7:12:00 Ops-A talking on radio to flight 194
Fuel readings, flight status report, weights and balances, flaps and passengers
7.12.40 Ops-A re: 1081- gate clearance
PSP to Ops-B question about complex
7.13.04 PSP checking AA computer Screen flight readout/ or adjusting monitors.
Ops-B looking at monitors
7.13.37 Ops-A: "184 gave us an on time "
[monitoring performance].
7.13.52 PSP: "Only thing left on complex 7 is 909 "
[assessment of performance]
7.14.21 BP turns in chair, asks Ops-B what just landed.
7.14.34 "816 is on the ground"
[Is this an answer to BP? How do these operators know who is talking to whom?
They often talk without addressing recipient or looking at him/her].
7.15.24 Ops-A report/gossip re: lots of crews bitching about Flying Tigers- incandescent lights-
blinding pilots on runway approaches.
7.15.45 Ops-B walks to printer, tears out sheets, tears
sheets on table edge, throws part of sheet away. [check garbage cans]
PSP adjusting video monitors
7.16.36 Ops-B returns with styrofoam food box and places it on area between PSP and Ops-A
Ops-A opens box
Ops-B walks toward SUP 's desk
7.16.48 Ops-A requests utensils
7.17.12 General joking around; food talk

Jordan, Brigitte and Austin Henderson. 1995. "Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice." The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4(1): 39-103.

Last Updated by CM on 1/15/97.