๐ Diary studies
= a ethnographic like research method that collects qualitative information by having participants record entries about their everyday lives in a log/diary/journal
Design decisions
- Data
- how much data total?
- how often?
- Study
- how long?
- how many participants?
Pros&Cons
- ๐ Quantitative&Qualitative data
- ๐ No distracting observer
- ๐ ๐ Reliability depends on participants
- ๐ Hard to design
Difficulties
- get people to record what you want
- maintaining participation
- getting enough data/people