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Denvir, Catrina – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
This study explores how virtual desktops hosted within a cloud computing environment can be used as a data capture tool to undertake research exploring web-browsing and web-searching behaviour. It details the protocol used to observe the task-orientated web interactions of 105 university and school aged participants within the confines of a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Data Collection, Internet, Information Management
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Clark, Lillian; Ting, I-Hsien; Kimble, Chris; Wright, Peter; Kudenko, Daniel – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2006
Introduction: The strategies that people use to browse Websites are difficult to analyse and understand: quantitative data can lack information about what a user actually intends to do, while qualitative data tends to be localised and is impractical to gather for large samples. Method: This paper describes a novel approach that combines data from…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Information Seeking, Web Browsers, Internet