Picture book reading is a common activity in the lives of many children. This work describes the frequency and character of picture book reading in American homes. Seventy-seven monolingual English-speaking families with children between the ages of 18-30 months took part in a 5-day diary study in which caregivers recorded details about picture book reading activities. This sample is characteri...

Lab-based usability testing and location-based ethnography are time consuming and costly. We introduce diary studies as a useful design alternative for crosscultural work. The relative strengths of the methods are assessed and some lessons from our own work with diary studies are shared.

Whereas most research on usability focuses on known applications we explore the first encounters. Starting up new applications expectancy, impression management, initial dialogues and acquaintance, and ritualizing operations have to be handled. We present the research approach and document short histories of learning and fascination. Focussing on business users of mobile services we conducted d...

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SMS or text messaging is an area of growth in the communications field. The studies described below consisted of a questionnaire and a diary study. The questionnaire was designed to examine texting activities in 565 users of the mobile phone. The diary study was carried out by 24 subjects over a period of 2 weeks. The findings suggest that text messaging is being used by a wide range of people ...

This article presents a case study of a university discrete mathematics course with over 170 students who had access to an online learning environment (OLE) that included a variety of online tools, such as videos, self-tests, discussion boards, and lecture notes. The course is based on the ideas of the personalised system of instruction (PSI) modified to take advantage of an OLE. Students’ lear...