Open tools for exploring dynamic interaction and multimodal signals in social-interaction research.
A DIMS dashboard puts video, time series, transcripts and annotations in one place, against one shared clock, so that qualitative and quantitative readings of an interaction can sit beside each other — recurrence quantification, cross-recurrence, cross-wavelet coherence, a cross-effector network and ELAN annotations included. Coherence is read against a chance level estimated by simulation: two unrelated signals score about 0.25, not 0, so a number without that comparison cannot be interpreted.
One repository holds all the code. Each study is a small repository of its own, holding its configuration, its data, and a pinned copy of that code — verified against the release in CI, so a study can never quietly fork.
| dims | the core — dashboard, tabs, Python analyses, no-code builder | everything else pins a release of this |
| case-demo | the reference study, with real data — rebuilt on each release | live |
| dims-dashboard-demo | the same study, frozen at 1.0.0 and self-contained: it opens with no network and does not move | live |
| case-ortho | ORTHO — a two-person tabletop game | live |
| case-karnatak | Karnatak music lessons | private: the recordings are identifiable |
| dims-network.github.io | the site, generated from the core's markdown |
Much of this data is video of identifiable people. A study declares its
visibility once, in dims-case.json, and the declaration is enforced by
machinery rather than by memory: a commit hook, a push hook, and a CI check that
fails if restricted data is tracked — or if a study declaring itself private is
in a public repository. See
public and private data.
Issues labelled ready name the files, link the contract and state the
acceptance check, so one can be picked up without any other context. Start from
the core's README, a map
telling you which single document to read for the task you have.
Miao, G. Q., Trujillo, J., Bulls, L. S., Thornton, M. A., Dale, R., & Pouw, W. (2025). DIMS Dashboard for Exploring Dynamic Interactions and Multimodal Signals. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025).