Preparation for Feb. 27:

Read & Review

• OUE, chapter 10: “Diary Studies” (pp. 243-271).
• Gaver, B., Dunne, T., and Pacenti, E. (1999), Design: Cultural probes, Interactions 6, 1 (Jan. 1999), pp. 21-29.
• Topics: Diary Study and Cultural Probe, from Usability Body of Knowledge.
• Bryan, P. (2012), Video Diaries: A Method for Understanding New Usage Patterns, UXmatters.
• Arbitron, Inc. (2007), The Arbitron Radio Listening Diary: Why the Radio Diary Is an Effective Research Tool in the Digital Age — An example diary study.

Optional Readings & Resources

• Diary Studies (Elsevier UOE textbook companion topic).
• Carter, S. and Mankoff, J. (2005), When participants do the capturing: the role of media in diary studies, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, Oregon, USA, April 02 – 07, 2005). CHI ’05. ACM, New York, NY, 899-908. — Useful for their discussion of using media other than paper, with references to examples.
• Sohn, T., Li, K. A., Griswold, W. G., & Hollan, J. D. (2008), A diary study of mobile information needs, in Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 – 10, 2008). CHI ‘08. ACM, New York, NY, 433-442. — Participants in this study use text messaging to send diary entries.