In this article we discuss re-retrie personal i ation ects and relate the task to rec ri lapse(s) in e We propose that entall it is lapses in e that i pede users success l re ndi the i ation the nee Our hesis is that learni ore about e lapses in non-c puti contexts and how people cope and recover from these lapses, we can better inform the design of PIM tools and improve the user's ability to r...

DOI: 10.1026/1617-6383.18.1.9 Abstract. Most communication studies on children and media have focused solely on television. Other popular media products such as narrative audio tapes have been neglected. The present article addresses factors that influence preschoolers’ selective exposure to these tapes. In line with past research, the emotional attractiveness of a story’s protagonist and some ...

This study investigated the extent to which the experience of daily stressors was related to women’s age and daily health symptomology, such as flu and cold symptoms. Respondents were 562 women (aged 25–74) who were a part of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE), a telephone diary study examining daily stressful events. The respondents were interviewed by telephone on eight consecutiv...

In this paper, we present Smart Diary, a novel application integrating mobile sensing, activity inference, and natural language processing to facilitate novel knowledge representations of sensor data. Smart Diary records and analyzes a person’s daily life and transcribes those activities into human-readable outputs referred to a diary. Smart Diary makes four key contributions. First, to our bes...

Diaries have long been seen as tools for reflection in learning languages, and learning about teaching. Despite this recognition of the importance of narratives in diary writing, little attention has been paid to the role of research diaries in the process of learning about research, and learning how to be a researcher. During the author’s own research into the construction of teaching knowledg...

Heylighen & Dewaele’s (2002) F-score, a measure of formality developed based on categorical frequencies of word types, is used as a starting point for an investigation of an online diary corpus. Comparisons are made between results in the main corpus of diary entries, a smaller corpus of diary comments, and with previously calculated F-scores for similar types of data (Nowson, Oberlander & Gill...

Software Engineering studies run in classroom environments can and have made important contributions to empirical software engineering. Because the goal of such studies is to improve the state of the practice in industry, researchers must understand and account for the differences between university students and industrial professionals. One major difference identified is the amount of training...

Research Author(s): Jonathan R. Thompson, Arnim Wiek, Frederick J. Swanson, Stephen R. Carpenter, Nancy Fresco, Teresa Hollingsworth, Thomas A. Spies, David R. Foster Reviewed work(s): Source: BioScience, Vol. 62, No. 4 (April 2012), pp. 367-376 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the usability of the e-Ouch electronic chronic pain diary in adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. METHODS A qualitative usability testing approach with semistructured, audiotaped interviews with two iterative cycles was used. A purposive sample of 10 adolescents per cycle was drawn from a rheumatology clinic in a university-affiliate...

BACKGROUND Measurement of nebulizer medication adherence that relies on self-report of medication use is subject to recall bias and increased patient burden. Electronic monitoring of nebulizer medication use is relatively new technology and provides an objective measure of nebulizer use. OBJECTIVE To examine levels of agreement for nebulizer use between self-report on diary cards and electron...