A substantial body of literature exists investigating the psychological states underlying peak performance in sports. However, excellence among performing artists, particularly actors, has received less empirical study. Thus, this investigation explored what subjective experience is like context professional screen acting, and how it achieved. Adopting a qualitative approach, semi-structured in...

This study examines IT professional certification’s role and prominence in the marketplace. IT professional certificates and arguments supporting and negating their role in the marketplace are viewed. Results of a content analysis of IT job ads are reported. The analysis, focusing on education, experience, and professional certification requirements, found that less than 20% of IT job ads menti...

BACKGROUND Clinical experience has traditionally been highly valued in medical education and clinical healthcare. On account of its multi-faceted nature, clinical experience is mostly difficult to articulate, and is mainly expressed in clinical situations as professional approaches. Due to retirement, hospitals in Scandinavia will soon face a substantial decrease in the number of senior special...

One approach to user experience (UX) is phenomenology, but there are no well-defined methods for how to conduct UX research using phenomenology, especially not in a professional design practice. One well-defined approach developed in psychology is Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), which in this paper is adapted to professional UX research practice. The adaptation is put to test in...