We report the results of a diary study to determine whether a diary approach could be used as a successful way of retrieving a) the user’s learning contexts, b) which learning contexts are significant for consideration within an m-learning application, and c) which learning materials are appropriate for which learning situation. Analyses of data provided by 32 participants have helped us to est...

This paper reports a diary study of the use of mobile telephones for rendezvousing amongst younger and older adults in the UK. Various cohortrelated age differences between younger and older students were expected. However, these differences were either not found, or found to be weak. The significant age differences that were found by this study related to the life situations of older adults. S...

Objective: to assess sleep habits and sleep quality perception in a Colombian and Mexican youth sample. Materials and methods: following a sleep diary methodology with a questionnaire of 27 categorical and quantitative items, the assessment was done immediately upon awakening. Results: it was applied to 317 high school (n= 189) and undergrads (n= 128) in Bogotá, Colombia (n= 197) and México Cit...

In this position paper we propose the use of experience sampling and contextual diary tools as personal information applications to foster attitude and behavior change among individuals. Over the last years a diversity of these tools have been proposed in academics to research user behavior and user experience in-situ. We suggest utilizing these tools to help people collect personal information...

In the age of Web 2.0 users contribute to platforms success by providing personal information by actively uploading information (e.g., messages, preferences, biographies) and also by leaving traces of their online behaviour as can be derived from their clicks, navigation paths, etc. While there is a market for trading such information among companies, there is little knowledge about how users a...

In preparation for a larger investigation, Bradac, Perry and Votta conducted a time diary study of how a developer spent their time over a 30-month period. They conducted their study to better understand, and ultimately try to reduce, project duration. We re-analysed some of the evidence presented in Bradac et al.'s paper, and this led to a modification to one of Bradac et al.'s conjectures viz...

The study sets out to explore the factors that influence the evaluation of information and the judgments made in the process of finding useful information in web search contexts. Based on a diary study of two assigned tasks to search on Google and Google Scholar, factor analysis identified the core constructs of content, relevance, scope and style, as well as, informational and system ‘ease of ...

We describe a qualitative user study that we conducted with 64 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in India recruited from private sector clinics. Our aim was to investigate information gaps, problems, and opportunities for design of relevant technology solutions to support HIV treatment. Our methodology included clinic visits, observations, discussion with doctors and counsellors, contextual in...

A growing interest in the functional importance of dispositional autonomy led to the development and validation of the Index of Autonomous Functioning (IAF) across seven studies. The IAF provides a measure of trait autonomy based on three theoretically derived subscales assessing authorship/self-congruence, interest-taking, and low susceptibility to control. Results showed consistency within an...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether job crafting and work enjoyment could explain the well-established relationship between self-efficacy and job performance. The authors hypothesized that employees would be most likely to engage in proactive job crafting behaviors on the days when they feel most self-efficacious. Daily job crafting, in turn, was expected to relate to dail...