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Focus Groups

open access: yes, 2021
The first focus groups were used in market research in the 1920s. From the end of the 1980s, focus groups gained popularity and became more mainstream in social sciences. Focus groups involve a small number of participants discussing the topics raised by
Emily Winter, Linda Woodhead
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Focus Groups – What are They?

Dental Update, 2001
The use of focus groups has become common in many spheres of research, including dental research. This article provides an update on the history of focus groups, defines focus groups in the context of academic research and highlights their possible uses.
Chestnutt, I. G., Robson, K. F.
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Focus Group

Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, 2017
Fog computing addresses non-functional requirements such as real-time, latency, location-awareness and platform heterogeneity to overcome the limitations of cloud-based architectures. In this focus group, we explore the use of patterns for fog, edge and cloudlet solutions. The goal is to identify a set of patterns that can be used by software engineers
Andreas Seitz   +2 more
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Focus Groups

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1989
To successfully develop nurse retention programs, a thorough organizational analysis, including the identification of problems, is necessary. Used as a management tool, focus groups that use the organization's nursing staff provide a unique method of data collection for identifying problems that now exist in the organization.
M B, DesRosier, K C, Zellers
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A Focus on Focus Groups

Business Communication Quarterly, 1998
Focus groups provide users with valuable qualitative data not readily obtained with any other data-collection techniques. First developed for market researchers to determine the present or potential impact of a product or ser vice, focus groups also help administrators and developers gain information about programs, assess the effectiveness of ...
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Focus group on telepharmacy

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2001
The focus group strongly believed that telepharmacy will change the practice of pharmacy and that it is not a matter of if or when but how. Consumers' expectations and the need for efficient health care delivery will drive the use of technology. Pharmacists have considerable lever-age in this technological world because of the money associated with the
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Focus Groups

2020
Abstract When used in conjunction with employee surveys, focus groups can provide valuable qualitative data to support the employee survey process. Focus groups held prior to survey development and administration can uncover issues worthy of investigation and evaluate draft survey questions for sensitivity and readability.
Jeffrey M. Cucina, Ilene F. Gast
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Focus group research

Nursing Standard, 2015
A focus group is usually understood as a group of people brought together by a researcher to interact as a group. Focus group research explicitly uses interaction as part of its methodology. This article summarises the practice of running focus groups, explores the nature of focus group data and provides an example of focus group analysis.
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Nokia Focus Group

ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Animation Festival, 2010
This viral video features a group of men being watched and filmed from behind a one-way mirror at an undisclosed location. Then something unprecedented happens as our protagonist begins to change into various animated objects before morphing into the Nokia N900 mobile computer.
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Focus Group Discussions

This chapter provides an overview of focus group discussions as a research method. Using illustrative examples, the chapter discusses the appropriateness of the technique for accounting research. The chapter then highlights both the strengths and drawbacks of the technique and provides guidance on how to mitigate the drawbacks.
Gammie, Elizabeth   +2 more
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