ATLAS.ti serves as a powerful utility for qualitative analysis, particularly when working with larger bodies of textual, graphical, audio, and video data. The content or subject matter of these materials is in no way limited to any one particular field of scientific or scholarly investigation. Typical application areas for ATLAS.ti are characterized by a systematic, yet creative approach to analyzing unstructured data.

Common areas of application include:

anthropology	criminology	economics
educational sciences	ethnological studies	history
knowledge acquisition	legal studies	linguistics
literary studies	management studies	psychology
sociology	stylistics	software engineering
theology	political sciences	....

...and many other document-based research areas.

ATLAS.ti can be of great help in any field where this kind of "soft data" analysis is carried out. While the program was originally designed with the social scientist in mind, it has been put to use in areas that we had not initially anticipated. These areas include psychology, literature, medicine, software engineering, quality control, criminology, administration, text linguistics, stylistics, knowledge management, history, geography, theology, and law.

Especially because of ATLAS.ti's strength in working with graphical, audio, and video data, there is virtually no limit on the types of fields where it can be used productively. New applications emerge constantly. Listed below are a few "uncommon," but nonetheless typical usage scenarios for ATLAS.ti:

Medicine: X-ray images, computer tomograms, microscoped samples. Example
Anthropology: video taped gestures, mimics
Architecture: annotated floorplans
History: research video archives
Engineering: "exploded" part lists with descriptions
Psychotherapy: graphical add-ons (Rohrschach patterns?) to reports
Graphology: micro comments to handwriting features.
Criminology: letters, finger prints, photographs, incident based profiling
Quality assurance: video taped feasibility studies of user interfaces
Arts: detailed interpretative descriptions of paintings. Example
Publishing: archiving images
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