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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Diary studies"”.
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No Pressure!: Designing Mobile Interventions to Improve Pressure Relief Adherence for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury through Diary Studies
… was tested with individuals with SCI. A 10-day diary study was conducted to capture their experiences in real-time, resulting in a collection of quantitative and qualitative data. The analysis led to a set of key considerations for designing such mobile interventions: 1) technology with a human …
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Advancing Verbal Communication Skills Through Transcript-Based Feedback : Designing an AI-Assisted Language Learning Application, “Stepping Stones, ” to Support ESL Students in Academic and Professional Contexts
… approach, the study combines interviews, diary studies, and online meeting transcript analysis to surface recurring pain points in learner speech. These insights informed the development of Stepping Stones, an AI-powered learning application that provides context-aware feedback based on …
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No ‘off’ switch (but not being all things to all people at all times): Extreme integrators’ use of avatar-mediated connectivity
… interviews, assisted and triangulated with diary studies, observations and interviews with a key–informant from the industry. The results of this study portray unique aspects of how social media creators understand and manage connectivity. In particular, it was discovered that participants …
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Information Scraps in the Smartphone Era
… memory. In addition, the results of our diary studies show that mobile contexts or locations are highly correlated with people's choosing to use smartphones to record information scraps. Our analysis of our diary study data also provides fresh understanding of the information scrap …
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Organizing for alterity: a netnography of #AlteritOrg
… fieldwork was also accompanied by reflexive diary studies. Based on a constructivist ontology and an interpretivist epistemology, the thesis adopts a research position which is informed by critical performativity (Spicer, et al., 2009). In that spirit, and derived from the …
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Procrastination on social networking sites: types, triggers, and socio-technical countermeasures.
… low work productivity and anxiety. Numerous studies have examined the factors that may lead people to procrastinate, such as low self-efficacy, low self-regulation and low self-esteem. Social networking sites (SNSs) may facilitate procrastination; for example, notifications could be a …
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The effect of the guided disclosure protocol on daily stress, mood and coping
… days before completing a seven-day daily diary immediately following writing (Time 1) and at follow-up two months later (Time 2). In the diary participants were asked to report on their daily hassles and record subsequent mood (PANAS) and coping (Brief COPE). The DAS-21 was repeated at …
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Pick and Mix: consumers moving between online and offline channels
… the UK were investigated through interviews and diary studies. Literature from the field of Human-Computer Interaction and Consumer Research informed the methodology and the perspective for the analysis. The findings from the in-depth study show that the participants frequently used multiple …
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Young children's apprenticeship in number
… video recordings, parent interviews, parental diary studies, and nursery teacher interviews. A two dimensional coding schedule, grounded in the research data and based upon theoretical considerations, is developed to analyze transcripts of young children's social interaction involving number …
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Development of a Daily Diary Method for the Assessment of Everyday Cognitive Failures
… general types of cognitive failures. These daily diary studies also failed to assess the impact of cognitive failures on daily functioning. The current study built on this previous research and introduced a set of assessment tools designed to capture missed activities, memory failures, and …
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Work-Life Balance and Women Academics in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of UK and Nigeria
… Utilizing role conflict theory; interviews, diary studies andparticipatory visual drawings show how the bi-directional impact of work and non-workdomains into conflict. The research also addresses the impact of time-based conflict, on theexperiences of women academics. It further utilizes …
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The use and formation of social networks among asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland
… and encompassing semi-structured interviews, diary studies, focus groups and participant observation with members of Northern Ireland’s asylum seeker and refugee population. Additionally, interviews with representatives from a range of refugee support organisations are utilised to provide …
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The Credibility Assessment Process of Political Information on WhatsApp in Brazil
… it from open social media, it also has hindered studies exploring political information processing on this platform (Valenzuela et al., 2019; Valeriani & Vaccari, 2018). This study investigates the credibility assessment process of political information on WhatsApp, a central skill for …
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Involuntary retrieval from autobiographical memory and the nature of cues
… is the opposite of what has been known from diary studies about IAMs, which have been reported as being more specific compared to voluntary memories. We offer a number of explanations of why IAMs are less specific than voluntary memories. However, being post-hoc explanations, work still needs …
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Experience sampling methods (ESM) in organizations: a review
We review research designs of ESM studies conducted in workplace settings (k = 167 samples). Eight ESM design features are summarized: sample size and number of observations, response rates, recruitment methods and incentives, survey timing factors (study duration, signal frequency, times of day), …
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Proměny motivace k učení se češtině: pohled studentů v kurzech češtiny při studijním pobytu v ČR
… Although it has been discussed extensively, most studies have examined large world languages. This paper brings new insight into the motivation to learn Czech as a second language in the context of study abroad at Charles University in Prague. First, the theoretical part introduces essential …