APFT Databank Standard Catalogue Form
All documents must be accompanied by a fully completed APFT Databank Standard Catalogue Form both as a separate file and on paper. Please use upper and lower case letters not all CAPITALS. This includes:
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date
full address of institution
series title
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abstract
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Author(s): (personal or corporate) - personal names should begin with the first name and include the full name not just initials, i.e. Jane Bex not Bex, Jane or C.J.Bex.- corporate names should be given in full, e.g. Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales, not APFT
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date: format dd/mm/yy
full address of institution
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language(s)
abstract
suggested subject keywords
public/private status
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author(s): Jane Bex
title: sub-title(s): The rocky road: problems and failures in qualitative data collection.
date: 17/04/97
address of institution: Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. CT2 7NS
series title: Conference paper
language(s): English
abstract:
What are the problems and difficulties associated with collecting qualitative data? How are they avoided or solved by researchers? In contrast to the majority of reports of research, this paper will not look at research success but its failures. This will be illustrated by problems encountered in the course of the BLERBS (British Library Ethnographic Research into Bibliographic Services) project. It will consider how, if necessary, these can be avoided, and what measures should, or could be taken by researchers to accommodate failure to collect data in their reporting of research results.
As Jakob Nielsen notes "It is in the nature of things that people prefer talking about their successes and forgetting their failures. Even so, many valuable lessons can be learned from considering why things go wrong. In user testing, we often lean more when the user makes an error than when he or she merrily breezes along in the interface. Similarly for projects, it would be good if people would reveal more about those things that did not work." (1995) p.ix).
Ref:
Nielsen, J. (ed.) (1995) Advances in human-computer interaction. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex
suggested subject keywords: data collection, qualitative research methods, human-computer, interaction, HCI,
ethnography
public/private status: private
links to related documents on Databank [if known]: N/A
name and version of wordprocessing package used: ClarisWorks 4.0
name of computer system: Mac
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Thursday, August 21, 1997