Zoti's Social Toolkit
Zoti's Social Toolkit is a toolkit for measuring emotion inference skills and conflict resolution styles. It has been designed for use with primary school children. Zoti's Social Toolkit has been purposefully designed to be accessible for people who have communication difficulties, such as Developmental Language Disorder.
This set of stimuli includes two tasks: An emotion inference task, and a conflict resolution task. The protocols for the two tasks are made available. Also available are the animation files, which are embedded in the two tasks. Researchers may wish to embed the animations into their own software for experimental purposes.
The stimuli for Zoti's Social Toolkit has been piloted in multiple studies. During the piloting process, some of the animation files were removed from the final toolkit since they were not deemed valid for the author's purposes. These additional animation files are made available here. Researchers may wish to use these additional animations for their own experimental purposes.
An online version of Zoti’s Social Toolkit has been developed and is available for use here. Researchers may wish to download this version of the toolkit for use with PsychoPy or Pavlovia.org. Researchers are welcome to adapt this version of the toolkit for their own purposes. Full instructions for using this version of the task, including restrictions for its use, are made available here.
Cite this dataset as:
Lloyd-Esenkaya, V.,
Chan, L.,
Russell, A.,
St Clair, M.,
2024.
Zoti's Social Toolkit.
Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00970.
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Unpublished … animations.zip
application/zip (9MB)
Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
This folder contains the animation files which were not deemed valid for inclusion in the final emotion inference task from Zoti's Social Toolkit. Researchers may wish to use these animations to suit other research purposes.
Refined emotion animations.zip
application/zip (33MB)
Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
This folder contains the animation files used in the emotion inference task from Zoti's Social Toolkit.
Unpublished … animations.zip
application/zip (27MB)
Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
This folder contains the animation files which were not deemed valid for inclusion in the final conflict resolution task from Zoti's Social Toolkit. Researchers may wish to use these animations to suit other research purposes.
Refined conflict animations.zip
application/zip (44MB)
Creative Commons: Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
This folder contains the animation files used in the conflict resolution task from Zoti's Social Toolkit.
Emotion inference … task.zip
application/zip (172MB)
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This folder contains the emotion inference task from Zoti's Social Toolkit, and the protocol for using this task. Also included in the folder is a scoring scheme, which researchers may wish to use for scoring verbal responses.
Conflict resolution … task.zip
application/zip (412MB)
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This folder contains the conflict resolution task from Zoti's Social Toolkit, and the protocol for using this task. Also included in the folder is a scoring scheme, which researchers may wish to use for scoring verbal responses.
Zoti's Social Toolkit Online.zip
application/zip (114MB)
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An online version of Zoti’s Social Toolkit is available. This includes both the conflict resolution task and the emotion inference task. The free open source software package programme PsychoPy has been used to create this version. This folder includes the PsychoPy task files and guidelines/restrictions for their use.
Creators
Vanessa Lloyd-Esenkaya
University of Bath
Lok Fung Jason Chan
University of Bath
Ailsa Russell
University of Bath
Michelle St Clair
University of Bath
Contributors
University of Bath
Rights Holder
Documentation
Data collection method:
The animations made for Zoti's Social Toolkit were created by the first author. Each animation frame was drawn with a Wacom CTL4100 Intuos Graphis Drawing Tablet using Corel Painter Essentials 6. The first author recorded their own voice using a recording device. The software iMovie 10.1 was used to combine the frames and audio recordings to create each animation. Zoti's Social Toolkit encompasses a task to measure emotion inference skills, and another task to measure conflict resolution styles. The two tasks can be presented using Microsoft PowerPoint slides, or the open source software package PsychoPy, and its sister site Pavlovia.org, where the animation files have been embedded. Headphones are needed for these tasks. Protocols for both tasks are available.
Documentation Files
Emotion inference … protocol.docx
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This protocol explains how to use the emotion inference task from Zoti's Social Toolkit.
Conflict resolution protocol.docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document (16kB)
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This protocol explains how to use the conflict resolution task from Zoti's Social Toolkit.
Funders
University of Bath
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000835
University Research Studentship Award
Publication details
Publication date: 7 February 2024
by: University of Bath
Version: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00970
URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/id/eprint/970
Related papers and books
Lloyd‐Esenkaya, V., Russell, A. J., and St Clair, M. C., 2024. Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12475.
Related theses
Lloyd-Esenkaya, V., 2021. The Social Side of Developmental Language Disorder: Peer Interaction Skills During Childhood: (Alternative Format Thesis). Thesis (PhD). University of Bath. Available from: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-social-side-of-developmental-language-disorder-peer-interacti.
Contact information
Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.
Contact person: Michelle St Clair
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Psychology
Research Centres & Institutes
Child Mental Health and Development Research Group
