Confessions from a Grounded Theory PhD: Experiences and lessons learnt

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 113-122

  Furniss, Dominic ^a   Blandford, Ann ^a   Curzon, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Constructivist; Distributed cognition; Grounded Theory; Method; Qualitative; Resilience engineering

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CASE-STUDIES; CONSTRUCTIVIST; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; GROUNDED THEORY; LESSON LEARNT; METHOD; PRACTICAL ISSUES; QUALITATIVE; RESILIENCE ENGINEERINGS; USABILITY EVALUATION METHODS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 79958157472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1978960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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