Participant Experiences of Mobile Device-Based Diary Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Sun ◽  
David Golightly ◽  
Jo Cranwell ◽  
Benjamin Bedwell ◽  
Sarah Sharples
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Device ◽  
Data Capture ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Diary Method ◽  
Diary Studies

Mobile device-based diary studies have potential as contextual data capture methods that address the limitations of the traditional paper-based diary method. While there have been a number of studies that demonstrate the power of the mobile device-based diary approach, there is less known about participants’ experience of such studies. This paper presents three cases of mobile data capture to bring together user experiences of participating in diary studies and discuss how this can be fed into the design of methodology.

Emerging Issues in Mobile Data Capture Methods across Multiple Domains

2015 ◽  
pp. 176-217
Author(s):  
Jo Cranwell ◽  
Xu Sun ◽  
David Golightly ◽  
Genovefa Kefalidou ◽  
Benjamin Bedwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Data Capture ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Diary Method ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Multiple Domains ◽  
Collection Methods

Mobile device-based data capture studies have potential as contextual data collection methods to address the limitations of the traditional paper-based diary method. The ever-evolving computing power of mobile phones broadens the potential applications of such methods in novel and interesting ways. While there have been a number of studies that demonstrate the power of the mobile device-based diary approach, there is less known about participants' experience of such studies. This chapter presents five case studies to bring together user experiences of participating in mobile data capture studies and evaluates how this can be fed into the future study design.

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.

OS 26-03 MOBILE DEVICE BASED ELECTRONIC DATA CAPTURE SYSTEM IN PHARMACEUTICAL CLINICAL TRIAL

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. e247
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Lei Sun ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Hongyi Wang ◽  
Ningling Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Data Capture ◽  
Electronic Data Capture ◽  
Electronic Data ◽  
Electronic Data Capture System

scholarly journals A Contextual Data Offloading Service With Privacy Support

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Gomes ◽  
Lincoln Rocha ◽  
Fernando Trinta
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Computational Power ◽  
Context Model ◽  
Data Offloading ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
Data History ◽  
Remote Environment ◽  
The Impact

Mobile and context-aware applications are now a reality thanks to the increased capabilities of mobile devices. In the last twenty years, researchers had proposed several software infrastructures to help the development of context-aware applications. We verified that most of them do not store contextual data history and that few of these infrastructures take into account the privacy of contextual data. This article presents a service named COP (Contextual data Offloading service with Privacy support) to mitigate these problems. Its foundations are: (i) a context model; (ii) a privacy policies; and (iii) a list of synchronization policies. The COP aims at storing and processing the contextual data generated from several mobile devices, using the computational power of the cloud. We have implemented one experiment evaluated the impact of contextual filter processing in the mobile device and the remote environment. In this experiment, we measured the processing time and the energy consumption of COP approach. The analysis detected that the migration of data from mobile device to a remote environment is advantageous.

Application of Mobile Data Capture with Imagery Support

2015 ◽  
pp. 55-75
Author(s):  
Michael E. Hodgson ◽  
Bruce A. Davis ◽  
Dexter Accardo ◽  
Haiqing Xu ◽  
Karen Beidel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Capture ◽  
Mobile Data

scholarly journals A Mobile Application Recommendation Framework by Exploiting Personal Preference with Constraints

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konglin Zhu ◽  
Zexuan Liu ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Xinyu Gu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Mobile Data ◽  
Personal Preference ◽  
Battery Power

Explosive mobile applications (Apps) are proliferating with the popularity of mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets). These Apps are developed to satisfy different function needs of users. Majority of existing App Stores have difficulty in recommending proper Apps for users. Therefore, it is of significance to recommend mobile Apps for users according to personal preference and various constraints of mobile devices (e.g., battery power). In this paper, we propose a mobile App recommendation framework by incorporating different requirements from users. We exploit modern portfolio theory (MPT) to combine the popularity of mobile Apps, personal preference, and mobile device constraints for mobile App recommendation. Based on this framework, we discuss the recommendation approaches by constraints of phone power and limited mobile data plan. Extensive evaluations show that the proposed mobile App recommendation framework can well adapt to power and network data plan constraints. It satisfies the user App preference and mobile device constraints.

scholarly journals Mobile Device Data Security: A Cryptographic Approach by Outsourcing Mobile Data to Cloud

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 480-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sujithra ◽  
G. Padmavathi ◽  
Sathya Narayanan
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Device ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Mobile Data

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.

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