Abstract:This article introduces the guided tour as an appropriate research technique for studying situated and embodied information. The guided tour hybridizes aspects of observation and interviews, and involves a researcher's relatively shortened, nonspontaneous entry into a field site. During a guided tour, a participant leads the researcher through the location (often one that is personally meaningful for him or her) while describing and explaining its features, thinking-aloud the ideas, thoughts, and feelings to which it gives rise, and responding to the researcher's gentle inquiries. This article begins with a sustained background to the technique and descriptive breakdown of it in terms of other, related methods and techniques. It then reviews prior use of the guided tour in the information and library science field, where it is not prevalent per se, but has been used on an ongoing basis for at least three decades. It delineates practical steps and tips for carrying out a guided tour as well as strengths and limitations of the technique for studying situated, embodied information and information phenomena in general. The article concludes by briefly discussing researchers as embodied research instruments and the role of reflexivity in qualitative research.

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导览游：研究情境，具体化信息的研究技术

摘要：本文介绍导游作为一种研究位置和体现信息的适当研究技术。导览游将观察和访谈的各个方面混合在一起，并涉及研究人员相对较短，不自发地进入实地的过程。在导览游中，参与者带领研究人员浏览该地点（通常是对他或她个人有意义的地点），同时描述和解释其特征，思考其产生的想法，思想和感受，并做出回应研究员的温柔询问。本文从该技术的持续背景及其对其他相关方法和技术的描述性细分开始。然后，它会回顾信息和图书馆科学领域中导游的先前使用情况，本身并不普遍，但已连续使用至少三十年。它概述了进行导览的实际步骤和技巧，以及研究位置，具体体现的信息和信息现象的技术的强项和局限性。本文通过简要讨论作为体现性研究工具的研究人员以及反身性在定性研究中的作用作为总结。