Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ημερολόγιο Έρευνας μέσω Κινητού	Μέθοδος Ημερολογίου
Πεδίο	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων	Μεθοδολογία Επισκοπήσεων
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2000s–present (mobile adaptation of diary methods established ~2003–2010)	1920s–1940s (systematised by Allport, 1942)
Δημιουργός	Bolger, Davis & Rafaeli (diary methods); smartphone adaptation emerged early 2000s	Gordon Allport (systematic social-science use); Nels Anderson (early fieldwork diaries)
Τύπος	Qualitative / mixed-methods data collection technique	Qualitative / mixed-methods data-collection technique
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Bolger, N., Davis, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2003). Diary methods: Capturing life as it is lived. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 579–616.	Alaszewski, A. (2006). Using Diaries for Social Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-0761941415
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	mobile diary study, smartphone diary, digital research diary, mobile diary method	diary study, diary technique, self-report diary, daily diary method
Συναφείς	4	5
Σύνοψη	A Mobile Research Diary is a data collection technique in which participants record thoughts, experiences, behaviours, or events in structured diary entries submitted via a smartphone or tablet app over a defined study period. By moving the diary onto a mobile device, researchers gain time-stamped, geolocation-optional data captured close to the moment of experience, reducing retrospective recall bias while maintaining the rich, naturalistic quality of traditional diary methods.	The diary method is a data-collection technique in which participants record their thoughts, behaviours, events, or experiences in their own words at regular or event-contingent intervals over a defined study period. By capturing data close in time to the event, diaries reduce retrospective recall bias and give researchers access to the texture of everyday life as it unfolds — something one-off surveys and retrospective interviews cannot provide.