When participants do the capturing: the role of media in diary studies Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:180224, abstract = {In this paper, we investigate how the choice of media for capture and access affects the diary study method. The diary study is a method of understanding participant behavior and intent in situ that minimizes the effects of observers on participants. We first situate diary studies within a framework of field studies and review related literature. We then report on three diary studies we conducted that involve photographs, audio recordings, location information and tangible artifacts. We then analyze our findings, specifically addressing the following questions: How do context information and episodic memory prompts captured by participants vary with media? In what way do different media "jog" memory? How do different media affect the diary study process? These questions are particularly important for diary studies because they can be especially useful as compared to other methods when a participant intends to do an action but does not or when actions are particularly difficult to sense. We also built and tested a tool based on participant and researcher frustrations with the method. Our contribution includes suggested modifications to traditional diary techniques that enable annotation and review of captured media; a new variation on the diary study appropriate for researchers using digital capture media; and a lightweight tool to support it, motivated by past work and findings from our studies.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Carter, Scott and Mankoff, Jennifer}, booktitle = {CHI '05: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {180224}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1055098}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1054972.1055098}, doi = {10.1145/1054972.1055098}, isbn = {1-58113-998-5}, keywords = {diary, methods, research, studies}, location = {Portland, Oregon, USA}, pages = {899--908}, posted-at = {2005-05-04 20:37:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {When participants do the capturing: the role of media in diary studies}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1054972.1055098}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:180224 L3 - citeulike-article-id:180224 N2 - In this paper, we investigate how the choice of media for capture and access affects the diary study method. The diary study is a method of understanding participant behavior and intent in situ that minimizes the effects of observers on participants. We first situate diary studies within a framework of field studies and review related literature. We then report on three diary studies we conducted that involve photographs, audio recordings, location information and tangible artifacts. We then analyze our findings, specifically addressing the following questions: How do context information and episodic memory prompts captured by participants vary with media? In what way do different media "jog" memory? How do different media affect the diary study process? These questions are particularly important for diary studies because they can be especially useful as compared to other methods when a participant intends to do an action but does not or when actions are particularly difficult to sense. We also built and tested a tool based on participant and researcher frustrations with the method. Our contribution includes suggested modifications to traditional diary techniques that enable annotation and review of captured media; a new variation on the diary study appropriate for researchers using digital capture media; and a lightweight tool to support it, motivated by past work and findings from our studies. CY - Portland, Oregon, USA SN - 1-58113-998-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 908 TI - When participants do the capturing: the role of media in diary studies PB - ACM T2 - CHI '05: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 899 KW - diary KW - methods KW - research KW - studies AU - Carter, Scott AU - Mankoff, Jennifer PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1054972.1055098 ER -