Situation:
You want to build a fixed state of the art usability lab.

What you need (for a standard setup):
- A PC with the "Spectator" software and two monitors
- The screen recorder
- A digital video camera
- An external microphone (recommended)
- A speaker

Example for a fixed usability lab
Setup:
The
monitor signal of the PC goes into the screen recorder and is recorded as a MPEG 4 file. During the test session, the signal is loopthroughed
and displayed live on a monitor in the control room.
The
audio signal goes from the microphone into the digital camcorder. The video and audio signal from the digital camera goes via FireWire into the recording PC and is recorded as a digital file.
Your recording PC is connected with the screen recorder via an
ethernet cable to control the screen recorder (Start/stop recording, transfer MPEG files).
The participant video and the "Spectator" software are displayed on the second monitor of the recording PC simultaneously.

Perform a session:
During the session the videos (monitor and participant) are recorded and synchronized. You can code the behaviors and mark interesting scenes with the short cuts you defined in the configuration of the Spectator software. When you stop the recording the monitor video recorded on the screen recorder will be automatically transferred to your recording PC.

Play & Edit:
After the session you can use the software to play the synchronized videos again (slow motion support), edit your codings you've made during the session, insert additional comments etc.

Share your results:
You can bundle the videos and your codings on a CD (one click) with the free "Spectator Player" software and distribute the CDs so everybody can watch the interesting scenes using the bookmarks you've made in the videos.

Additional equipment:
To expand the standard system shown above you can obtain additional equipment.

A pan-tilt camera holder for the camera
A pan-tilt control panel to control the pan-tilt camera holder
A push-to-talk microphone to communicate with the participant
An additional video monitor to share the participants video image (useful for multiple observers)
A second video camera
An additional PC monitor to share the live monitor image (useful for multiple observers)

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