So I started looking for alternatives, and the site showed dozens of options. New entrantsīut recently, when I was working for the West Midlands Fire Service, I had to analyse data from workshops and interviews, and we didn’t have access to an NVivo license. But I’m also too familiar with its problems, like crashes (earlier versions), files not open by different versions of the software, the need to export a file from Windows to open on Mac, and the fact that we can’t “Save as…”, only “Save a copy” after you save the current changes, losing the original file. In more than one decade I’ve seen several versions being released, a Mac version developed, and the software improved with new features. Academic institutions usually have licenses available to all students and staff, making NVivo very popular among researchers. She then turned to a bookshelf behind her and said, going through her books, that I would benefit from… this, then pulled a book titled “Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo”, by Pat Bazeley.įrom that moment onwards, the QSR International NVivo software had been my only tool to perform qualitative data analysis. I said I put the main ideas on a Word document and counted how many people said what. She asked me how I analysed the interview data. I had performed a user study with 4 participants and post-interaction interviews. I presented my preliminary research, including a pilot study performed to understand user behaviours and energy use. I was one of the newest students, trying to explain my research to the most senior academic in the department. It was the summer of 2010, during the first year of my PhD, when I was being examined by the dean of the Design School in her office, in order to progress to the second year.

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