Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications
This paper contributes an intentionally naturalistic methodology using smartphone logging technology to study communications in the wild. Smartphone logging can provide tremendous access to communications data from real environments. However, researchers must consider how it is employed to preserve...
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| author | Chad C. Tossell Philip Kortum Clayton W. Shepard Ahmad Rahmati Lin Zhong |
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| description | This paper contributes an intentionally naturalistic methodology using smartphone logging technology to study communications in the wild. Smartphone logging can provide tremendous access to communications data from real environments. However, researchers must consider how it is employed to preserve naturalistic behaviors. Nine considerations are presented to this end. We also provide a description of a naturalistic logging approach that has been applied successfully to collecting mediated communications from iPhones. The methodology was designed to intentionally decrease reactivity and resulted in data that were more accurate than self-reports. Example analyses are also provided to show how data collected can be analyzed to establish empirical patterns and identify user differences. Smartphone logging technologies offer flexible capabilities to enhance access to real communications data, but methodologies employing these techniques must be designed appropriately to avoid provoking naturally occurring behaviors. Functionally, this methodology can be applied to establish empirical patterns and test specific hypotheses within the field of HCI research. Topically, this methodology can be applied to domains interested in understanding mediated communications such as mobile content and systems design, teamwork, and social networks. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1866c90c871441f5b0fbbdfc861ee6fe2025-02-03T01:02:57ZengWileyAdvances in Human-Computer Interaction1687-58931687-59072012-01-01201210.1155/2012/815972815972Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated CommunicationsChad C. Tossell0Philip Kortum1Clayton W. Shepard2Ahmad Rahmati3Lin Zhong4Department of Psychology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-25, Houston, TX 77005, USADepartment of Psychology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-25, Houston, TX 77005, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-25, Houston, TX 77005, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-25, Houston, TX 77005, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, MS-25, Houston, TX 77005, USAThis paper contributes an intentionally naturalistic methodology using smartphone logging technology to study communications in the wild. Smartphone logging can provide tremendous access to communications data from real environments. However, researchers must consider how it is employed to preserve naturalistic behaviors. Nine considerations are presented to this end. We also provide a description of a naturalistic logging approach that has been applied successfully to collecting mediated communications from iPhones. The methodology was designed to intentionally decrease reactivity and resulted in data that were more accurate than self-reports. Example analyses are also provided to show how data collected can be analyzed to establish empirical patterns and identify user differences. Smartphone logging technologies offer flexible capabilities to enhance access to real communications data, but methodologies employing these techniques must be designed appropriately to avoid provoking naturally occurring behaviors. Functionally, this methodology can be applied to establish empirical patterns and test specific hypotheses within the field of HCI research. Topically, this methodology can be applied to domains interested in understanding mediated communications such as mobile content and systems design, teamwork, and social networks.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/815972 |
| spellingShingle | Chad C. Tossell Philip Kortum Clayton W. Shepard Ahmad Rahmati Lin Zhong Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications Advances in Human-Computer Interaction |
| title | Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications |
| title_full | Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications |
| title_fullStr | Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications |
| title_short | Getting Real: A Naturalistic Methodology for Using Smartphones to Collect Mediated Communications |
| title_sort | getting real a naturalistic methodology for using smartphones to collect mediated communications |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/815972 |
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