Qualitative Research Interviews Josh Fiala DIS 280 11/5/08.

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Qualitative Research Interviews Josh Fiala DIS /5/08

What Are Qualitative Interviews? “…attempts to understand the world from the subjects' point of view, to unfold the meaning of peoples' experiences, to uncover their lived world prior to scientific explanations“ Conversations in which responses are the main source of raw data ▫Participant's responses are open-ended and not restricted to choices provided by the researcher Kvale, Steinar Interviews: An introduction to qualitative research. London: Sage.

Qualitative or Quantitative? QualitativeQuantitative Concerned with how people think and feel about the topics of concern to the research Gather broader, more in-depth information from fewer respondents (micro-analysis) Open questions for greater depth and personal detail Use a structured survey instrument that asks all respondents the same questions in the same order to allow for statistical analysis Gather a narrow amount of information from a large number of respondents (macro- analysis Closed questions for quantification, can be coded and processed quickly

Why Use Qualitative Interviews? May be the only data gathering technique for the study Can lead to the development of new ideas and hypotheses, or to the discovery of new dimensions of a problem to be studied. Complements and supports other research methods Can be used to develop valid and understandable questionnaires. May be used as a follow-up to explore issues that have emerged from a questionnaire in more depth. Miller, Robert L. and John D. Brewer The A-Z of Social Research. London: Sage.

Interview Guides / Aide mémoire Necessary for the interview techniques discussed, but are used in different ways ▫Unstructured interviews  Allows the researcher to refer to key themes or sub- questions and formulate questions ▫Semi-structured interviews  Allows the researcher enough flexibility to re-word the questions to fit into the interview ▫Structured interviews  Resembles an interview schedule

Unstructured Interviews Defined ▫Interviews in which neither the question nor the answer are predetermined and rely on social interaction between the researcher and informant to elicit information (Minichiello 1990) ▫A way to understand the complex behavior of people without imposing any a priori categorization which might limit the field of inquiry (Punch 1998) ▫A natural extension of participant observation relying entirely on the spontaneous generation of questions in the natural flow of an interaction (Patton 1990) Zhang, Yan Unstructured Interview.

Unstructured Interviews in LIS Research Cobbledick (1996). “The Information-Seeking Behavior of Artists: Exploratory Interviews” ▫Information needs of artists largely ignored by the library profession. ▫Sought to understand the diverse and unusual sources used by artists. Attfield & Dowell (2003). “Information-Seeking and Use by Newspaper Journalists” ▫To specify system requirements and understand design implications for an integrated information retrieval and authoring system. Other Potential Uses ▫Library usage ▫Information systems design Zhang, Yan. Unstructured Interview (2006)

Structured / Semi-Structured ▫Allow open-ended responses. ▫Deliberately set up ▫Follow certain rules and procedures.

Semi-Structured Interviews ▫The researcher has an outline of topics or issues to be covered, but is free to vary the wording and order of the questions to some extent. ▫Data somewhat more systematic and comprehensive than in the informal conversational interview. ▫Tone of the interview still remains fairly conversational and informal. ▫Requires an interviewer who is relatively skilled and experienced. ▫Difficult to compare or analyze data. ▫The most frequently used qualitative interview technique in LIS research Sewell, Meg. The Use of Qualitative Interviews in Evaluation.

Structured Interviews ▫Interviewer adheres to a strict script. ▫Interviewers can be less experienced or knowledgeable. ▫Easier to compare or analyze data

Related LIS Research Meadow, Charles T. et al. ▫“A Study of user performance and attitudes with information retrieval interfaces” JASIST 46, no.7 (1995).  3 approaches in data collection:  transaction logging  structured interviews  focus group discussion

Related LIS Research (cont’d) Compared the behavior of two types of users with two types of information retrieval interfaces ▫Participants asked structured questions during and after the searches  Results “…largely nonquantitative nature” (p. 495)  Data reduced to a survey type response.

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