... of personas in educational research and design requires certain adjustments from its original use in human-computer interface design. This paper aims to propose a process of creating personas from phenomenographic studies, which helps us create data-grounded personas effectively. Design/methodology...

... by the variety of disciplines that need to be drawn on in order to create a firm theoretical framework for a study of this scale. This paper looks at the effects of these problems on the data collection process and the attempts made by the author to select a research methodology that will enable analytic...

... methodologies to measure end‐user searching effectiveness. Questionnaires, observation, search strategy analysis and interviews were employed, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Results are presented, which demonstrate that a librarian can perform searches of greater complexity...

... ‐ getting reliable responses, organizing and presenting the findings, and guarding against subjective involvement by the researcher. Aims to open up these issues and provide guidance to current reading. Data collection Interviewing Methodology Research © MCB UP Limited 1996...

... in multi‐site libraries), and time (deadlines may preclude interlibrary loans). Information Interviewing Libraries Methodology Research Text retrieval The information explosion has had dramatic consequences for the researcher in terms of accessibility of information. It is now...