The purpose of this paper is to report the design and implementation of the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation method in a qualitative interview study, to assess the performance of the method to investigate a research topic in everyday life health information behaviour and to provide insights on how to effectively use this method in future research.,The author embedded the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation in a qualitative interview study to examine people’s everyday life health information behaviour with activity tracking technology. The author assessed the types of visual data collected by the method, categories of elicitation enabled by the method and how the method contributed to key research findings of the interview study.,The enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation generated rich, unique and meaningful data that would be otherwise difficult to collect through conventional qualitative interviews. The method also elicited explanation, rationalisation and reflection during the interviews, which enriched and triangulated key research findings. This work validated the benefits of the general photo elicitation method such as aiding participants’ recall of experiences, enriching research findings and improving research validity. It also demonstrated that the enhancement techniques used in this study could generate rich and even research data across interviews.,This paper describes the design and implementation of the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation method to augment a qualitative interview study with activity tracker users. The author provides recommendations for researchers to take full advantage of the method in future everyday life health information behaviour research.

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增强的参与者驱动的照片启发方法用于日常生活健康信息行为研究

本文的目的是在定性访谈研究中报告增强型参与者驱动的照片激发方法的设计和实施，评估该方法在研究日常生活健康信息行为中的研究主题的性能，并为他们提供见解。如何在未来的研究中有效地使用这种方法。作者将增强的参与者驱动的照片启发嵌入到定性访谈研究中，以使用活动跟踪技术检查人们的日常生活健康信息行为。作者评估了该方法收集的视觉数据的类型，该方法支持的启发类别以及该方法如何对访谈研究的关键研究结果做出了贡献。增强的参与者驱动的照片启发产生了丰富的，独特而有意义的数据，否则将很难通过常规的定性访谈收集这些数据。该方法还可以在访谈过程中引起解释，合理化和反思，从而丰富和三角化了关键研究结果。这项工作验证了通用的光激发方法的好处，如帮助参与者回忆经验，丰富研究结果并提高研究效度。这也证明了本研究中使用的增强技术可以在访谈中生成丰富甚至是研究数据。本文描述了增强的参与者驱动的照片启发方法的设计和实现，以增强活动跟踪用户对定性访谈的研究。