Mobile Research in the Wild: Practical Experiences with Mixed Methods

摘要：

Over the past few years we have designed and carried out a range of mixed methods studies of hand held technology, used by school children, across a range of settings including classrooms and field trips. In this paper we explore how these investigations have overcome issues and constraints faced when conducting such research in the wild. An in-depth report of the key issues faced by researchers develops the literature relating to such studies by considering the constraints involved when multiple methods are being used, and, in particular starts to explore challenges faced when introducing quantitative and controlled experimental work into a more qualitative framework of data collection. Where possible we report techniques that we have used to overcome these constraints. We hope that these approaches will be useful to guide researchers future mixed methods investigations of mobile learning in the school context.

关键词： Experiment Research Constraints Technology Mixed Methods

作者: Susanna Martin Danae Stan ton Fraser Mike Fraser Dawn Woodgate David Crellin

作者单位: CREATE Lab Department of Psychology University of Bath Department of Computer Science University of Bristol ScienceScope Abington House 146 London Road West, Bath

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning(第十届移动学习国际会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 495-504

在线出版日期: 2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）