I214: User Experience Research

Summary from Usability Book of Knowledge

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.

This one is useful for their method of having people use text messaging to send diary entries: Sohn, T., Li, K. A., Griswold, W. G., and Hollan, J. D. 2008. A diary study of mobile information needs. InProceeding 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.

It’s quite difficult to find examples of HCI-related diary study data collection instruments. Here are some from other domains.

Example: very elaborate diary study: USPS annual Household Diary Study: Mail Use and Attitudes in FY 2008 – see Appendix C2; Diary Package.

Example: simple diary study.  Arbitron Radio Listening Diary (and why they use paper)

Filed by Nancy Van House at 7:46 pm under Diary Studies
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