Conducting Interviews with Remote Participants

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“…Third, the interviewees for whom English is not the first language (7 of 14) said they would feel more comfortable typing their answers. Some interviewees also said they were quite shy and could express themselves better in writing (see Hillman, Forghani, Pang, Neustaedter, & Judge, 2014). The messages included emoticons and colloquial language, which suggests that the participants felt relaxed while doing the interview.…”

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“…Dimond et al [14] extend this work to include email and phone as additional methods of qualitative data collection, noting that synchronous interviews (by phone) tended to produce much longer transcripts than semi-synchronous (instant message) or asynchronous (email) methods, but that they do not necessarily produce more unique ideas. Hillman et al [23] provide an in depth discussion of their approach to conducting interviews over video chat, and the challenges they faced.…”

“…by expanding sample sizes to reach theoretical saturation or statistical power). This has been the motivation for previous discussion of remote interview techniques [14,23], but there has been little discussion on remote group-based research techniques: What are the challenges of conducting group based Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored.…”

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“…Dimond et al [14] extend this work to include email and phone as additional methods of qualitative data collection, noting that synchronous interviews (by phone) tended to produce much longer transcripts than semi-synchronous (instant message) or asynchronous (email) methods, but that they do not necessarily produce more unique ideas. Hillman et al [22] provided an in-depth discussion of their approach to conducting interviews over video chat, and the challenges they faced.…”

“…Although previous work proposed remote strategies via instant messaging [40], email and phone [14], and video chat approach [22], * Corresponding author. Email: hemacleo@indiana.edu there has been little discussion on remote group-based methods.…”