Utilising Mood Boards as an Image Elicitation Tool in Qualitative Research

Mood Boards as a Universal Tool for Investigating Emotional Experience

Emotion is an essential part of user experience. While researchers are striving for new research tools for evaluate emotional experiences in design, designers have been using experience-based tools for studying emotions in practice, such as mood boards. Mood boards were developed for communicating emotional qualities between designers and clients, but have not yet been considered as an evaluati...

Qualitative Research as a Tool for Agricultural and Extension Education

In the opening of his essay, “Disciplines of Inquiry in Education,” Shulman makes two important points. The first is that, because education has been tied to psychology as a foundation discipline, it has adopted, from psychology, the scientific, experimental method of research. The second is that methodology determines the kinds of questions a researcher is able, or at least is likely, to ask (...

Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool

Image warping as an image enhancement post-processing tool

A method to improve the results of image enhancement is proposed. The method is based on pixel grid warping, the main idea is moving pixels in the direction of the nearest image edges. Warping allows to make edges sharper while keeping textured areas almost intact. Experimental applications of the proposed method for image enhancement algorithms show the improvement of image quality.

Nurses on Boards Research

Nursing Leadership from Bedside to Boardroom: Opinion Leaders’ Perceptions Khoury, Blizzard, Moore, Hassmiller Quantitative/ Qualitative Journal of nursing administration The study found that people in general find nurses to be trustoworthy, especially when it comes to health care issues and also showed that people were aware of nurses' lack of presence on boards and decreased influence in exec...