Sentence examples for maker participants from inspiring English sources

To examine the pathways of the Maker participants, interview transcriptions were analyzed inductively.

Fig. 2 Educational backgrounds and careers of the Maker participants (consolidated categories).

All Maker participants who were willing to complete the critical incident interview were contacted via Skype.

Interviews were conducted in person with 41 Maker participants and via Skype with one Maker participant to examine the pathways related to engineering that had been followed toward the creation of the artifact on display.

A summary of the notes, including potential research questions, was circulated to decision maker participants after each forum; this allowed them to verify that their opinions were accurately captured.

Following obtaining research consent, approximately 15 minutes was spent with each Maker participant, asking them to describe their artifact, show how their artifact works, describe their process for Making, and describe the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they learned or gained from Making (see Table 6).

Methods included 58 qualitative interviews with decision makers, participant observation, and document analysis.

One policy-maker (participant 7, male) stated that cultural factors might be at play here; as a " verbal society" many policy-makers prefer verbal reports to documentation, and place more importance on information that is provided to them by individuals who are highly respected, than documents from a removed source.

Through two magazines — Make and Craft — an array of blogs and events called Maker Faires, participants share ideas for previously unimagined tools, toys and forms of locomotion.

This creates a gap between decision-makers and participants, all of which reduce the efficiency of participation.

CureTogether.com, for example, has occasionally earned money by e-mailing advertisements aimed at its members who have certain health conditions on behalf of drug makers seeking participants for clinical trials, says Daniel Reda, who co-founded the site with his wife, Alexandra Carmichael.