Researching at sea: Exploring the ‘swim-along’ interview method.

Denton, Hannah; Dannreuther, Charlie; Aranda, Kay

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102466

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“…Videoconferencing was preferred to face-to-face interviews to minimise geographical, financial and time-related barriers to participation in the study, and as some COVID-19 regulations were ongoing in Scotland, making face-to-face interviews logistically challenging. Sit-down interviewing was preferred to mobile methods such as 'swim-along' interviewing as our research questions predominantly focused on recalled experiences of previous swims and wider reflections on the health and well-being benefits and risks of wild swimming, rather than participant's moment-to-moment experience [11].…”

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“…In recent years, a growing body of literature has highlighted the health and well-being benefits of regular wild swimming. Innovative methods, such as swim-along interviews [11] and video diaries [12], have produced detailed insights into the wild swimming experience. A variety of qualitative accounts highlight the potential of wild swimming to promote, restore and maintain health and well-being.…”

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Freshwater Wild Swimming, Health and Well-Being: Understanding the Importance of Place and Risk

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Spending time in or around bodies of water or ‘blue spaces’ can benefit human health and well-being. A growing body of evidence suggests immersion in blue space, e.g., participating in ‘wild’ swimming, can be particularly beneficial for both physical and mental health. To date, wild swimming and health research has primarily focused on the experience of individuals who swim in the sea. Empirical studies of the health-promoting potential of swimming in freshwater environments, such as lochs and lakes, are lacking, despite the popularity of this practice in many countries and the vastly different physical and hydrological properties of freshwater and coastal environments. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between loch (lake) swimming and health and well-being for adults living in Scotland and determine the importance of perceptions of place and risk in this relationship. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve wild swimmers who regularly swim in lochs in Scotland. Interview data were analysed thematically using Nvivo. The findings suggest loch swimming has a variety of health and well-being benefits that can be categorised over three domains of health: physical, mental and social. Of these domains, mental health benefits e.g., mindfulness promotion, resilience building and increasing one’s ability to listen to their body, were particularly prominent. Our findings also highlight important physical and hydrological characteristics of loch environments, e.g., calm water conditions (relative to the sea), which contribute to positive wild swimming experiences. Finally, the perceived risks of loch swimming and mitigation strategies for these risks are established. Collectively, our findings further support the notion that wild swimming is a unique health-promoting practice. Our findings also highlight differences (in terms of experience and perceived risk) between swimming in freshwater and coastal environments, which can inform public health and water management policy.

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“…use of visual and physical artefacts, or referring to other data) (Barker-Ruchti et al, 2014Langdridge et al, 2012;Phoenix & Smith, 2011;Schubring et al, 2019;Svendler Nielsen, 2009;Williams, 2018b). Moreover, interviews can be deliberately conducted in a range of places and spaces, online or in person, formal or informal, seated, walking, dancing or even swimming, whilst interview data can be recorded in real time face to face, online (Archibald et al, 2019), drawn or visually represented, filmed or produced alongside visual data, with each potentially analysed in multiple ways (Denton et al, 2021;Kowalewski & Bartłomiejski, 2020;O'neill & Roberts, 2019;Phoenix & Orr, 2017;Smith & Sparkes, 2016a). Perhaps the simple interview isn't quite so simple after all.…”

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Qualitative research in sports studies: challenges, possibilities and the current state of play

Evans

Barker-Ruchti

Blackwell

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European Journal for Sport and Society

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“…They are both involved in the UX Design Process at their respective firms. To obtain more information from the interviewees, we attempted to use the "swim-along" approach during the interviews [23].…”

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User Experience Design Practices in Industry (Case Study from Indonesian Information Technology Companies)

Nugraha

Fatwanto

2021

ELINVO

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User Experience (UX) is a term that has received a lot of attention in the last decade. The number of industries whose consider the importance of implementing the UX design process within their development cycle has increased. Therefore, we think it is important to investigate how UX design processes are implemented in the industries. In this research, we take a qualitative approach with descriptive methods by investigating six information technology companies in Indonesia. As a result, we found that most of these information technology companies implement the UX design process as part of their operation and consider that the UX design process is an important part of software development. Each company has its order and priorities in regard to the UX design processes and only follows their established UX design process framework in order to meet their product development requirements. We also found that there are different UX design process approaches from these six companies.

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Researching at sea: Exploring the ‘swim-along’ interview method.

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Freshwater Wild Swimming, Health and Well-Being: Understanding the Importance of Place and Risk

Freshwater Wild Swimming, Health and Well-Being: Understanding the Importance of Place and Risk

Qualitative research in sports studies: challenges, possibilities and the current state of play

User Experience Design Practices in Industry (Case Study from Indonesian Information Technology Companies)

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