
JULIA KATHERINE HAINES
Google
BOB EVANS
Google
Overview
The TRACES methodology focuses on foundational research at multiple levels of granularity and across multiple dimensions, digital and embodied. It is an approach to gathering more meaningful data around people’s daily lives, as they move within and between different devices, services, environments and product ecosystems.
In this tutorial, participants will learn about TRACES and how to implement it using the Paco mobile and desktop behavioral research platform. Paco is an open source tool used around the world in both industry and academia. It can capture both emic and etic perspectives using sensors and logs, surveys, experience sampling, triggers, and prompts.
Background on TRACES and Paco:
Toward Multi-dimensional Ethnography, Julia Haines
Paco: Applying Computational Methods to Scale Qualitative Methods, Bob Evans
This tutorial was presented in full at EPIC202020. The video includes instructor presentations; discussions and breakout sessions...