Data gathering

Data gathering

1. Key issues

   • Goal setting
   • identifying participants
   • data collector/data provider relation
   • triangulation
   • pilot studies

2. Data recording

   • notes
   • Audio
   • video
   • photographs

3. interviews

   • unstructured
   • structured
   • semi-structured
   • focus groups

4. questionnaires

   • structure
   • question and response format
   • administering questionnaires

5. observation

   • direct observation
     • in the field
     • closed environments
   • indirect observation
     • diaries
     • interaction logs
     • web analytics