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What is Unobtrusive Methods

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Handbook of Research on Web Log Analysis
Research practices that do not require the researcher to intrude in the context of the actors. Unobtrusive methods do not involve direct elicitation of data from the research participants or actors. This approach is in contrast to obtrusive methods such as laboratory experiments and surveys requiring that the researchers physically interject themselves into the environment being studied.
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Research and Methodological Foundations of Transaction Log Analysis
Bernard J. Jansen (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Isak Taksa (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA), and Amanda Spink (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-974-8.ch001
Abstract
This chapter outlines and discusses theoretical and methodological foundations for transaction log analysis. We first address the fundamentals of transaction log analysis from a research viewpoint and the concept of transaction logs as a data collection technique from the perspective of behaviorism. From this research foundation, we move to the methodological aspects of transaction log analysis and examine the strengths and limitations of transaction logs as trace data. We then review the conceptualization of transaction log analysis as an unobtrusive approach to research, and present the power and deficiency of the unobtrusive methodological concept, including benefits and risks of transaction log analysis specifically from the perspective of an unobtrusive method. Some of the ethical questions concerning the collection of data via transaction log applications are discussed.
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