Diary Study Plan for Understanding Everyday Behaviour
Plan a diary study with prompts, duration, participant instructions, check-ins and an analysis plan to learn real behaviour over time.
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Help me plan a diary study. The behaviour or experience I want to understand: [TARGET_BEHAVIOUR]. Participants and how many: [PARTICIPANTS]. Study length and entry frequency: [LENGTH_AND_FREQUENCY]. Tools participants can use (messaging, form, voice notes, photos): [ENTRY_TOOLS]. What decision this informs: [DECISION_TO_INFORM]. Produce: a study design with research questions, why a diary study fits, and what it cannot tell us; participant instructions of under 200 words in plain language; an entry prompt template with fields (what happened, when, where, what you were trying to do, how you felt, anything that got in the way) and a short daily prompt; a schedule table with the columns Day, Prompt, Check-in, Researcher task; a plan to keep participants engaged (reminders, fair incentive, mid-study call) that respects their time; a workload estimate showing the arithmetic for participant minutes per day and total analysis hours for the number of entries; and an analysis plan with coding categories, a sample coding table and how to turn patterns into opportunity statements. Include an ethics note on privacy, since diaries can capture other people and sensitive moments, with options to skip or redact. Add a wrap-up interview guide of eight questions. Do not invent findings. Consent, data storage and incentive rules vary; flag them [VERIFY]. Tool features differ by plan; flag them [VERIFY]. Add a worked example with invented figures: 10 participants, 2 entries a day for 7 days, 4 minutes per entry for participants and 6 minutes of analysis per entry, and compute the totals.
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