Thanks for your thoughtful input, Chris! Being a designer and ethnographer, I think what I have in my head is actually tagging behaviors, interactions, even materiality in video or other self-reported data and then coming up with a way to code those that would show patterns over time. So imagine taking all visual materials from a time-motion study, for example, and tagging all behaviors, interactions and things, feeding that into some magical formula that would allow you to cross tab and identify patterns from which you could then produce a lifestyle narrative. So awesome...time consuming but could be amazing. And you could still have "other" qualitative input overlayed onto that.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Christine Boese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Generally (and forgive me if you are already familiar with these methods) > the way to go is with methods of content analysis such as sociolinguists > use. I always used to think part of the beauty of Q-sort methods is that > they have wonderful open-ended approaches, yet the data can be crunched. > > But this is an area where invention and inventiveness could really push on > boundaries of what is possible. The problem is, most researchers tend to > have either a quantitative or qualitative bias. Multi-modal stuff is > interesting, tho! Triangulate! > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
