Semi-structured interviews were guided by use of a topic guide, to provide a focus on relevant issues but without constraining interviews to pre-determined topics and thus allowing flexibility to explore salient emerging themes.
A topic guide rather than a fixed schedule will guide but not constrain the interviews, ensuring that interviews are driven by participant issues.
Although semi-structured interviews based on previously published research gave a sound theoretical backing to the research, they may have constrained the early interviews.
We conducted a progressive series of empirical studies looking at knitwear design: in situ observation; semi-structured interviews; constrained design tasks; and computational modelling.
The starting instruction gives direction to the content of the interview, constrains the discourse on this theme, and frees the speech of the interviewee by assuring confidentiality to him or her.
The process of typification, crucial in the phenomenological approach, is, however, eliminated or severely constrained in a fully structured interview, in which both the relevant expressions (observable signs) and "inner" experiences (symptoms) are selected in an a priori fashion, in the sense of being, assumed to be pre-defined as well-demarcated, mutually independent entities.
The number of interviews obtained was constrained by the finite amount of time the lead author had at each site and the availability of participants in that time frame.
In any case, Bono has said that he does not feel constrained in his writing or interviews by what Hewson might think, as "[she] doesn't read newspapers.
The inclusion of open-ended questions will ensure that interviews are not constrained to an RBV perspective.
Second, participants may have been constrained by the content of the interview guide or given socially desirable answers.
