📖 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 §

• 👍 Quantitative&Qualitative data
• 👍 No distracting observer
• 👎 😌 Reliability depends on participants
• 👎 Hard to design

Difficulties §

• get people to record what you want
• maintaining participation
• getting enough data/people