The principal stage of this qualitative inquiry consisted of semi-structured open-ended interviews that were carried out by one of the author during the course of the year 2010. The approach was both exploratory and inductive, and allowed the researcher to gather the respondents’ unique views and experiences in relation to the research topic.
Various probes were included in the semi-structured interview in order to elicit information about the different computer uses that were employed by the participants, the reasons that brought them to use or to resist computer usage and the meanings they ascribed to the experience.