Tag Archives: qualitative research

Does Social Media Help Tourists?

Hypothesis I want to examine if tourists use social media as their travel guide for their next travel destination.  I hypothesize that social media plays an important value in not only our travel destination but site seeing as well over a three month period. Flow Chart In my experiment, there will be 12 tourists.  I … Continue reading Does Social Media Help Tourists?

Wrapping it up to a research proposal

In this weeks blog, I will present my final hypothesis for my proposal, a simple flow chart for accomplishing my research goals, and close with a brief discussion of my research approach and methods of measurement to accomplish my project. Hypothesis It is my considered opinion that the viability of personal computer sales, production, and … Continue reading Wrapping it up to a research proposal

All Around the World

I will be doing research to help me better understand the use of artificial intelligence (informatics) in the travel industry.  I have found different ways to find the necessary research I need in order to carry out my search and so far it has been really exciting. MY SEARCH TOPIC: The use of artificial intelligence … Continue reading All Around the World

In this blog post, be sure to discuss: Your initial research idea and your current research idea. If there are changes, tell us how they are different and why. What led you to change your focus? My initial research ideas have not changed from researching the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. As we have continued … Continue reading

Delving into Usability Testing – User Experience Research Journal

Research Idea The research idea I will be outlining will be similar to the one I proposed in our courses first blog post. I think that ensuring I incorporated elements from the first weeks readings helped me define a structured way of conceptualizing the research. The changes I will be doing will be more like … Continue reading Delving into Usability Testing – User Experience Research Journal

Weekly Blog 7 Topic 46 DQ1

              In semi-structured interviewing, What are some ways that an interviewer can design research collection to avoid biasing results ? In chapter 6 the book stated that Interviews are the most popular measure of collecting data with regards to qualitative research. The most common interview  approach is  semi-structured in … Continue reading Weekly Blog 7 Topic 46 DQ1

Topic 46, Q7: Interviewer Bias

Question: What is the name of the process through which an interviewer can consider any personal biases? Answer: self-disclosure As a reminder, one of the most used ways that information is gathered in qualitative research is through an interview process. This process can be either structured or unstructured, but either way personal biases of the … Continue reading Topic 46, Q7: Interviewer Bias

Hossain M.T, Ahammed B, Chanda SK, Jahan N, Ela MZ, Islam M.N 2020: Social and Electronic media exposure

Introduction: These questions below follow the research done around the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. This group of professors will research how social media has affected the fear and misinformation of the COVID-19 virus. The participants are someone 16 years of age and old but, also able to understand English. It was done … Continue reading Hossain M.T, Ahammed B, Chanda SK, Jahan N, Ela MZ, Islam M.N 2020: Social and Electronic media exposure

Week 6: Is This The Real Me?!

Introduction Social Media plays a big aspect in all of our lives today.  Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or when we were younger – MySpace.  They can affect our moods and our we view ourselves.  Unfortunately, what many people do not know especially when they are younger and creating an account, is how they can … Continue reading Week 6: Is This The Real Me?!

(Paine et al., 2020: Flexible User Research)

Introduction The following questions pertain to a experiment carried out by a software development team working alongside scientist to build a platform that responds to data change. This experiment introduced a new software that designers hope will be easy for scientist to use while fostering interchangeability of data. The software developed is called DAC-MAN but … Continue reading (Paine et al., 2020: Flexible User Research)