Building and Disseminating an App for Ethnographic Remote Audio Recording

FAIN: HAA-284835-22

Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI 48824-3407)
Elizabeth Sneller (Project Director: June 2021 to present)

The development and testing with humanities scholars of an open source mobile recording app for collecting “audio diaries” for use in research and public engagement. 

This project builds on the success of an existing prototype for a remote recording mobile app used to collect "audio diaries" in 2020-2021. We aim to redevelop the code for the front end of the app and refactor the code for the back end, resulting in a shareable app infrastructure that may be adopted by researchers at any number of institutions. We will bring together a user community of beta testing researchers across the humanities who may benefit from a remote recording app, which we hope to expand during the second year of funding into a broad user community and support system. The code and user manual will be published on a public GitLab repository, enabling future improvements by the user community.