CONNECT — A Tool for Researchers and Participants to Co-Interpret Findings
Traditionally, Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) has been used by researchers as it was created for data analysis tasks, typically conducted by research experts. In recognizing that ENA can be expanded to accommodate researcher and participants’ interactions, we have developed a tool for this purpose. CONNECT supports researcher-participant co-interpretation of discourse data. The online tool is a collaborative space hosted in R Shiny App, where researchers and participants can analyze data together by creating networks based on themes or codes from the data. Researchers and participants can work together to discuss and debate how to create data visualizations and interpretations that are supported by evidence in the discourse data.