HyperRESEARCH is a computer software

Computer software

Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....

 program used for conducting qualitative research

Qualitative research

Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such...

 or qualitative data analysis.

Description

HyperRESEARCH enables coding and retrieval of source material, theory building, and analyses of your data. With its multimedia capabilities, HyperRESEARCH allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video sources. HyperRESEARCH has been in use by qualitative researchers since it was first introduced in 1991. HyperRESEARCH is fully cross-platform. You can trade your study files and sources with other HyperRESEARCH users whether they use MacOS X or Windows.

Features overview

1. Easy-to-use Interface: HyperRESEARCH offers the same intuitive case-based interface on all supported platforms. It provides a turnkey solution by employing a built-in help system and several tutorials with step-by-step instructions.
2. Flexible Methodolgies: HyperRESEARCH supports Case-base or Source-based qualitative methodolgies or combinations. With flexible organization of codes from any source to any case, support for code frequencies and other code statistics, HyperRESEARCH is well suited for mix-method approaches to qualitative research.
3. Fully Cross-Platform: HyperRESEARCH is designed from the ground up to work well on Microsoft Windows and Apple's OS X. The HyperRESEARCH study file format and all of the various media types supported will work across operating systems.
4. Multi-Media Capabilities: HyperRESEARCH allows you to work with text, graphics, audio, and video source material in many popular formats:

Usage

HyperRESEARCH is used by qualitative researchers in areas such as health care, legal, sociology, anthropology, music, geography, geology, education, theology, philosophy, history, and most other field using qualitative research approaches.

Development

HyperRESEARCH is developed using a natural language programming language called LiveCode

LiveCode

The LiveCode programming language is a commercial cross-platform rapid application development language inspired by Hypercard's programming language HyperTalk.The language was first introduced in 2001...

 that provide cross-platform development across Windows, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, MacOS, Web

World Wide Web

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, and various mobile operating systems.