Linganisha mbinu

	Kukusanya Data kwa Njia ya Simu ya Mkononi	Dawa ya Utafiti
Nyanja	Metodolojia ya Dodoso	Metodolojia ya Dodoso
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	2000s–present (mobile adaptation of diary methods established ~2003–2010)	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology
Mwanzilishi	Bolger, Davis & Rafaeli (diary methods); smartphone adaptation emerged early 2000s	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)
Aina	Qualitative / mixed-methods data collection technique	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool
Chanzo asilia	Bolger, N., Davis, A., & Rafaeli, E. (2003). Diary methods: Capturing life as it is lived. Annual Review of Psychology, 54(1), 579–616.	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.
Majina mbadala	mobile diary study, smartphone diary, digital research diary, mobile diary method	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary
Zinazohusiana	4	6
Muhtasari	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.	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.