Digital Diaries as a Research Method for Capturing Practices in Situ

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi ◽  
Cami Goray ◽  
Stephanie Zirker ◽  
Yinglong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Diary Method ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Nomadic Work

Digital diaries emerge as viable methods for capturing situated practices in research participants’ natural environments. This chapter reviews what has been learned about the affordances of diary studies from various research traditions and describes the researchers’ use of the digital diary method in different research contexts. Specifically explored is the use of digital diaries by drawing on the application of the method in studying nomadic work practices and how they help to reveal contextual details of nomadic work. The chapter thus outlines an ‘interposed approach’ where diary studies are preceded and succeeded by interviews with participants. Finally, the practical opportunities and challenges of conducting digital diaries are described.

scholarly journals In-Situ Synthesis of TiO2@GO Nanosheets for Polymers Degradation in a Natural Environment

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2158
Author(s):  
Yueqin Shi ◽  
Zhanyang Yu ◽  
Zhengjun Li ◽  
Xiaodong Zhao ◽  
Yongjun Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Separation Efficiency ◽  
Basic Mechanism ◽  
Chemical Degradation ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Additional Energy ◽  
Photogenerated Electrons ◽  
Main Components

Plastic photodegradation naturally takes 300–500 years, and their chemical degradation typically needs additional energy or causes secondary pollution. The main components of global plastic are polymers. Hence, new technologies are urgently required for the effective decomposition of the polymers in natural environments, which lays the foundation for this study on future plastic degradation. This study synthesizes the in-situ growth of TiO2 at graphene oxide (GO) matrix to form the TiO2@GO photocatalyst, and studies its application in conjugated polymers’ photodegradation. The photodegradation process could be probed by UV-vis absorption originating from the conjugated backbone of polymers. We have found that the complete decomposition of various polymers in a natural environment by employing the photocatalyst TiO2@GO within 12 days. It is obvious that the TiO2@GO shows a higher photocatalyst activity than the TiO2, due to the higher crystallinity morphology and smaller size of TiO2, and the faster transmission of photogenerated electrons from TiO2 to GO. The stronger fluorescence (FL) intensity of TiO2@GO compared to TiO2 at the terephthalic acid aqueous solution indicates that more hydroxyl radicals (•OH) are produced for TiO2@GO. This further confirms that the GO could effectively decrease the generation of recombination centers, enhance the separation efficiency of photoinduced electrons and holes, and increase the photocatalytic activity of TiO2@GO. This work establishes the underlying basic mechanism of polymers photodegradation, which might open new avenues for simultaneously addressing the white pollution crisis in a natural environment.

scholarly journals Assessing the Prison Experience for Australian First Peoples: A Prospective Research Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rynne ◽  
Peter Cassematis
Keyword(s):  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Potential Association ◽  
First Peoples ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
The Impact

Australian First Peoples hyperincarceration is concomitant with the trauma of historical and contemporary colonisation in perpetuating social dysfunction. Ongoing colonisation has been sustained by research that does not respect First Peoples epistemology, axiology, and ontology. Given this, the impact of prison quality and the potential association with First Peoples imprisonment and recidivism has been inadequately researched. Therefore there is a need to examine prison quality as experienced by Australian First Peoples. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise a decolonising prison quality research method that is respectful of and culturally sensitive to Australian First Peoples. The proposed method interfaces First Peoples yarning with Appreciative Inquiry. Underpinning the proposed method is that all researchers, First Peoples or non-Indigenous, are attuned to cultural awareness and sensitive to the engagement process. When yarning is interfaced with Appreciative Inquiry and the latter is modified in consultation with First Peoples input, the proposed research method empowers research participants, potentially contributing to de-colonisation.

Sampling and Reconstructing User Experience

2013 ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
Panos Markopoulos ◽  
Vassilis-Javed Khan
Keyword(s):  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Diary Method ◽  
User Attitudes ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Sampling And Reconstruction

The Experience Sampling and Reconstruction Method (ESRM) is a research method suitable for user studies conducted in situ that is needed for the design and evaluation of ambient intelligence technologies. ESRM is a diary method supported by a distributed application, Reconexp, which runs on a mobile device and a website, enabling surveying user attitudes, experiences, and requirements in field studies. ESRM combines aspects of the Experience Sampling Method and the Day Reconstruction Method aiming to reduce data loss, improve data quality, and reduce burden put upon participants. The authors present a case study of using this method in the context of a study of communication needs of working parents with young children. Requirements for future developments of the tool and the method are discussed.

The Interview as a Cultural Performance and the Value of Surrendering Control

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Markus Göransson
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This chapter looks into Markus Göransson's reports from Tajikistan. It demonstrates how the mere use of the word “interview” could scare cautious non-elite research participants in violent and/or illiberal contexts away. It recounts Göransson's field research while being equipped with literature-based knowledge on how to conduct oral history interviews and secure the informed consent of interlocutors. The chapter explains how Göransson gathered data ad hoc, in informal, private, and often group settings, requiring flexibility and creativity on his behalf and a willingness to relinquish control of the process to some extent. It points out the deep affinities between the states' disciplining techniques and scientific research method.

Development of a Direct In Situ PCR Method for Detection of Specific Bacteria in Natural Environments

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1536-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuji Tani ◽  
Ken Kurokawa ◽  
Masao Nasu
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Single Cell ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Single Cell Level ◽  
Bacterial Cells ◽  
Cell Level ◽  
In Situ Pcr ◽  
Glass Slides ◽  
Pcr Products

ABSTRACT We applied HNPP (2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid-2′-phenylanilide phosphate) to direct in situ PCR for the routine detection of specific bacterial cells at the single-cell level. PCR was performed on glass slides with digoxigenin-labeled dUTP. The digoxigenin-labeled PCR products were detected with alkaline phosphatase-labeled antidigoxigenin antibody and HNPP which was combined with Fast Red TR. A bright red fluorescent signal was produced from conversion to HNP (dephosphorylated form) by alkaline phosphatase. We used the ECOL DNA primer set for amplification of ribosomal DNA of Escherichia coli to identify cells specifically at the single-cell level in a bacterial mixture. High-contrast images were obtained under an epifluorescence microscope with in situ PCR. By image analysis,E. coli cells in polluted river water also were detected.

scholarly journals The interweaving of diaries and lives: diary-keeping behaviour in a diary-interview study of international students’ employability management

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412092026
Author(s):  
Xuemeng Cao ◽  
Emily F. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Students ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Diary Method ◽  
Diary Research ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Academic Year

This article explores ‘diary-keeping behaviour’, or the ways in which participants conduct the completion and submission of diaries in diary research. There is a paucity of methodologically oriented literature on diary method and as such this article makes a contribution to extending the existing knowledge of this method. The primary aim of this article is to set out in detail the key issues relating to diary-keeping behaviour, in order to provide a foundation for future critical explorations of this facet of diary research. The research that this paper is based on involved a 12-month diary-interview study. This project explored the employability management of Chinese international Master’s students in social sciences studying in the UK during one academic year. The article sets out key facets of diary-keeping behaviour and explores specific considerations for diary studies in higher education contexts, where diary research has been particularly neglected.

Digital embodiments: a two-day workshop with migrant women

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Elena Vacchelli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Personal Stories

This chapter draws on Digital Storytelling (DS), a process that allows research participants to tell their stories in their own words through a guided creative workshop that includes the use of digital technology, participatory approaches, and co-production of personal stories. As such, it is a method devised for bridging the gap between theory and experience and can be considered a social practice as well as a research method. During a workshop with migrant women, DS enabled all research participants to express personal truths that are worked on using technologies of telling, listening to each other's stories, writing, and giving each other comments and feedback within the group. In this chapter, DS is interpreted as embodied feminist research as it draws on repertoires of co-production that are typical of feminist activism and research.

scholarly journals From Genome to Function: Systematic Analysis of the Soil BacteriumBacillus subtilis

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin R. Harwood ◽  
Samuel G. Crawshaw ◽  
Anil Wipat
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Bacillus Subtilis ◽  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Positive Bacterium ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Programme ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Bacillus subtilisis a sporulating Gram-positive bacterium that lives primarily in the soil and associated water sources. Whilst this bacterium has been studied extensively in the laboratory, relatively few studies have been undertaken to study its activity in natural environments. The publication of theB. subtilisgenome sequence and subsequent systematic functional analysis programme have provided an opportunity to develop tools for analysing the role and expression ofBacillusgenesin situ. In this paper we discuss analytical approaches that are being developed to relate genes to function in environments such as the rhizosphere.

scholarly journals IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PROBLEM SOLVING SKILL IN MATHEMATICS THROUGH WRITING

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Linda Vitoria ◽  
Monawati Monawati
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Average Score ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Writing In Mathematics ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Mathematical Word Problems ◽  
Written Test

This article describes the implementation of writing in Mathematics as an effort to improve students’ problem solving skill. The research method was classroom action research which was conducted in three cycles. Research participants were 24 first-year students at PGSD FKIP Syiah Kuala University. Data was collected using a written test consisted of mathematical word problems presented to the students at the end of each cycle, and interview. Students’ problem solving skill was analyzed based on the four steps of problem solving proposed by Polya: 1. the ability to understand the problem, 2. the ability to plan a strategy to solve the problem, 3. the ability to execute the plan, and 4. the ability to re-check. Result shows that writing in Mathematics improve students’ problem solving skill. In cycle 1, the average score of students’ problem solving skill was 51.7. In cycle 2, the average score was 75.6, and finally in cycle 3, the average score was 83.4. During interview, the students confessed that writing helped them organize their thinking so that they can solve a problem satisfactorily.

scholarly journals MEDIA ALTERNATIF SEBAGAI UPAYA PELESTARIAN DAN PENGENALAN BATIK MELALUI BONEKA TANGAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mochamat Santoso ◽  
Khairu Rahmah ◽  
Putri Dewi Wahyuningsih ◽  
Bonny Bhinastiti Aisyah Rachmawati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Learning Materials ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Puppet Show ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan media alternatif sebagai upaya pelestarian dan pengenalan batik melalui boneka tangan untuk forum anak Surakarta. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Media yang akan dipakai dalam pengenalan motif batik ini didesain dan dimodifikasi dengan menambahkan unsur batik serta dengan sebuah cerita yang interaktif. Dalam penelitian ini, peserta juga dikenalkan dengan motif batik, diikutsertakan dalam pembuatan batik dan pementasan boneka tangan tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengenalan batik dan filosofinya dengan menggunakan media boneka tangan ini sesuai untuk anak-anak Forum Anak Surakarta. Pelatihan yang menyenangkan menggunakan media boneka tangan dapat membuat materi yang disampaikan dengan mudah diterima oleh anak-anak. Media bercerita dengan menggunakan boneka tangan membuat proses belajar lebih menyenangkan dan berguna untuk meningkatkan kepercayaan diri. Hasil yang dicapai antara lain peserta mampu mengetahui motif-motif batik dan filosofinya, memiliki kemampuan dalam membatik, mengembangkan kreativitas. Media boneka tangan juga memudahkan peserta menyerap pesan dan meningkatkan keberanian peserta.HAND PUPPETS AS AN ALTERNATIVE MEDIUM TO PRESERVE AND INTRODUCE BATIKThe objective of this study is to develop an alternative medium as an effort to preserve and introduce batik through the use of hand puppets within the Surakarta children's forum. Descriptive qualitative research method was used in this study. The puppets as the medium were designed and modified by adding batik elements depicting an interactive story which then were introduced to the research participants. These participants were also involved in the batik making process as well as in the puppet show. Findings of the study indicated that the introduction of batik and its philosophy of using hand puppets was suitable for the participants in Surakarta Children's Forum. Fun training using hand puppet medium enabled the children to receive the learning materials easily. In addition, storytelling using these puppets had created fun learning atmosphere and helped improve the children’s confidence. The results achieved included the participants’ capability in figuring out the motifs of batik and their philosophies, their ability to make batik, and their creativity improvement. The hand puppets medium also facilitated the children to absorb messages and increase their grits.

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