Yanagita Kunio: An interpretive study

Blended learning : an interpretive action research study

Understanding Virtual Team Development: An Interpretive Study

In this paper, we develop an understanding of how virtual teams develop over time by inductively studying communication transactions of 12 United States-Canadian student virtual teams involved in ISD. Our analysis is based upon two influential streams of social science research: (1) interaction analysis, which aided in the examination of the micro-processes of communication among members of a v...

Emotion and cardiac technology: an interpretive study.

This paper presents a frequently overlooked aspect of advanced technological care--that of the human dimension and emotions. Emotionality is defined as the emotional ways that a client experiences their embodied experience as a recipient of a cardiac pacemaker. One individual's story from a larger interpretive study of clients who received pacemakers is presented and interpreted. Kev's story en...

How and why patients use acupuncture: an interpretive phenomenological study.

INTRODUCTION The usual drivers of health care provision, namely efficacy and cost, might be expected to drive down the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAMs), given the relative paucity of evidence of efficacy for many CAMs. Usage of CAMs remains extensive and little attention has been given to explaining this paradox. This paper explores how patients integrate acupuncture, as a ...

Understanding Continued Use of Crowdsourcing Systems: An Interpretive Study

Crowdsourcing as a model for distributed problem solving has been rapidly gaining in popularity. In investigating what drives the solvers to participate in crowdsourcing, the extant research has one-dimensionally only viewed the origins of motivation. While these studies have revealed that crowdsourcing systems’ use is driven by both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, they fall short of expla...