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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 06/01/2025

This might be a surprise to some – I'm not a qualitative methods researcher; I'm a cognitive neuroscientist of visual attention and memory! For those who know me that way, I still am a psychophysicist / computational modeller / neuroimaging researcher; I haven't gone completely rogue.

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 06/01/2025

But I do advocate for open scholarship, and have been calling myself a (methods) pluralist. I was inspired by my new colleagues to learn more about qualitative methods; and that's how I learnt of the clunky, expensive qualitative analysis software out there. I felt there had to be a better way.

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 06/01/2025

So, I thought I would try to build an alternative, and that's how quokka came about. We've been using quokka for a qualitative project (one I think will be a useful piece on why research on visual attention and memory is needed) that has guided the app's development! But that's only one use so far.

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