Friard, O. and Gamba, M.

Friard, O. and Gamba, M. are the developers and publishers of BORIS (Behavioral Observation Research Interactive Software), a free and open-source application designed for event logging during video and audio coding as well as live observations. Available for Microsoft Windows and other platforms, BORIS belongs to the scientific research software category, serving primarily as a behavioral observation and analysis tool. The software enables researchers to define custom ethograms, record the timing and duration of behavioral events with millisecond precision, and code observations either in real time during fieldwork or from recorded media files. Typical use cases span ethology, animal behavior research, psychology, veterinary science, and any discipline requiring systematic recording of time-based events, such as studies of primate communication, animal welfare assessments, or laboratory behavioral experiments. Users can play back video and audio at various speeds, assign behaviors through configurable keyboard shortcuts, and export the resulting data for statistical analysis in external tools. As open-source software distributed through GitHub, BORIS can be freely downloaded, inspected, and modified, which makes it particularly attractive to academic institutions and research groups operating with limited budgets. The project is maintained by its authors and a community of contributors, with documentation, issue tracking, and source code openly accessible through the project's public repository.