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Researchers deploy systems, typically robust prototypes, to users in situ for a number of purposes: to assess changes in behavior, to gather feedback on how to improve the system, to influence the attitude of the population to adopt the final system in the future. Researchers collect both quantitative data (e.g., frequency of use) and qualitative data (e.g., observations and interviews about situations of use and attitudes), and thus, this method is associated with a number of other methods in this book.
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Siek, K.A., Hayes, G.R., Newman, M.W., Tang, J.C. (2014). Field Deployments: Knowing from Using in Context. In: Olson, J., Kellogg, W. (eds) Ways of Knowing in HCI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_6
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