A report on the implementation and evaluation of an intelligent learning system; the multimedia geography tutor and game software titled Lainos World was localized into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Chinese. Thereafter, multilingual online surveys were setup to which High school students were globally invited via mails to schools, targeted adverts and recr...

All the research projects discussed here were conducted in collaboration with either one of two independent research agencies based in the UK, GfkNOP or Illuminas. This discussion will draw upon three key studies. A qualitative study composed of focus groups and teledepth interviews completed in 2003–2004 which delved into the motivations and perceptions towards peer review specifically the opi...

The increasing prominence of online focus groups in market research and the complexity that the Internet environment adds to the conduct of research with focus groups has led to a certain interest in discovering how this method can be applied effectively and to which situations or purposes it is best suited. Based on an examination of the literature and on an empirical survey of the heads of qu...

This article builds on a case study of the worldwide online dating site Match.com to develop a theoretical understanding of the place of communication and affect in the information economy. Drawing on theoretical debates, secondary sources, a qualitative survey of dating profiles and an analysis of the features and affordances of the Match.com site, the article argues that internet dating seeks...

A widely distributed online survey gathered quantitative and qualitative data relating to the use of technology in the research practices of musicologists. This survey builds on existing work in the digital humanities and provides insights into the specific nature of musicology in relation to use and perceptions of technology. Analysis of the data (n=621) notes the preferences in resource forma...

BACKGROUND Patients have adopted web-based tools to report on the quality of their healthcare experiences. We seek to examine online reviews for US emergency departments (EDs) posted on Yelp, a popular consumer ratings website. METHODS We conducted a qualitative analysis of unstructured, publicly accessible reviews for hospitals available on http://www.yelp.com. We collected all reviews descr...

OBJECTIVE guidelines recommend that external cephalic version (ECV) should be offered to all women with a fetus in breech presentation at term. However, only 50-60% of the women receive an ECV attempt. We explored the determinants (barriers and facilitators) affecting the uptake of the guidelines among gynaecologists and midwives in the Netherlands. DESIGN national online survey. SETTING th...

As students operate increasingly in digital environments populated by social media tools, they need to leverage them effectively to access online resources and stay connected to the physical environments which they inhabit. This paper reports on a practitioner research project to reconfigure a traditional Computer Information Systems (CIS) tutoring lab at a business university into the “CIS San...