Understanding human judgement and decision making during visual inspection of data is of both practical and theoretical interest. While visualizing data is a commonly employed mechanism to support complex cognitive processes such as inference, judgement, and decision making, the process of supporting and scaffolding cognition through effective desi...
This article shows the use, appropriation and impact of computer tools (Information and Communication Technology - ICT) by researchers and research groups of institutions of higher education in the city of Medellin, Colombia. It highlights the qualitative methodology that allows the analysis of the dynamics of use and appropriation of the Informati...
Neste artigo, parto dos percursos de uma tese de Doutorado em currículo e estudos queers a fim de explorar os caminhos de pesquisa menos como um exercício de produzir empiria ou dados e mais como uma crítica criadora e expansiva. Pergunto: o que acontece se a pesquisa não passar de ficção? Sugiro, desse modo, que é o momento de arriscar os fundamen...
Designers often look for inspiration in their environment when exploring possible solutions to a given problem. However, many studies have reported that external stimuli may constrain designers’ imagination and limit their exploration to similar solutions, a phenomenon described as design fixation. Inspiration and fixation effects are traditionally...
Este artículo pretende contribuir al uso reflexivo de los métodos mixtos, es decir aquellos métodos que combinan en una misma investigación las miradas cuantitativas y cualitativas en vistas de la realización de la fase empírica del estudio. Luego de describir sus características generales y sus principales críticas, se presentan los elementos míni...
From the writing of life's histories of black women and their entanglements with Social Care Policy, the article presents the concept of "escrevivências", written by the author Conceição Evaristo, as a method of research and production of knowledge in Human Sciences and Social and, in particular, in the field of Social Psychology. The production of...
Analytical Hierarchy Process is one of the most inclusive system which is considered to make decisions with multiple criteria because this method gives to formulate the problem as a hierarchical and believe a mixture of quantitative and qualitative criteria as well. This paper summarizes the process of conducting Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)....
This article aims to investigate the reflexive use of mixed methods, i.e., those that combine quantitative and qualitative approaches in the same research in order to conduct the empirical stage of the study. After describing the general characteristics and main criticisms, we present the least number of elements that we believe should be made expl...
Introduction: In medical education, it is important to train students in scientific writing and research methods, relevant for progress of health sciences. The curriculum for the undergraduate program of medical education at the Marista University of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, includes the subject of research methodology in the sixth semester, and cu...
The sample size is a significant feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample. In order to generalize from a random sample and avoid sampling errors or biases, a random sample needs to be of adequate size. This study presents a summary of how to calculate the survey sample size in social re...
