Observations were unobtrusive with no interaction with mothers, family or staff [ 49, 50].
In this study, the field researcher will employ what Adler and Adler term the 'peripheral-member-researcher' role, where the identity of the researcher is clearly maintained, where observations are largely unobtrusive, but where interaction with participants and participation in some non-clinical tasks (such as making coffee, helping to set up a room for an activity) is undertaken.
During these on-site visits, the first author was present as a privileged observer (Wolcott 1980): a style of participant-observation where the researcher is familiar and allowed access to information while trying to be unobtrusive, with minimal interactions, observing the 'business as usual'.
Content analysis has been applied to transcriptions and interviews for the purpose of understanding human behaviours within various contexts, as it is an unobtrusive means of analysing interactions and provides insight into complex models of human thought [ 21].
Mr. Konitz's former mentor, Lennie Tristano, was phobic about drummers, preferring steady and unobtrusive timekeeping to any suggestion of spontaneous interaction on their part.
Similarly, from traders in flower markets to businessmen keeping in touch with distant relatives, what matters most of all in communications terms is being able to get hold of the small number of people closest to you, personally and professionally; and ensuring that your interactions with them are reliable, exclusive, unobtrusive and secure.
Unobtrusively, because social media is unobtrusive.
It has successfully designed an ad unit that's both unobtrusive and sometimes helpful enough to click, showing me interactions my friends have with brands — stories that could appear organically but that businesses pay to have appear more often or more prominently.
The comprehensive ThinkHome approach also considers two aspects frequently forgotten in other systems: a usable interaction between the system and its users and an unobtrusive yet ubiquitous integration of the smart system in the daily context.
Based on the layout of the clinic, the RA tried to choose an unobtrusive location to observe the staff member close enough to the interaction to see and/or hear it take place (to record its duration) but at a great enough distance to not interfere with the process.
Their goal was to create an unobtrusive camera that would record continually without requiring a lot of distracting interaction.
