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This article addresses challenges in designing Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) research. A summary of previous reviews of HAI research is presented, followed by a discussion of areas that present particular challenges to research in this field, specifically design issues, control of extraneous variables, sample selection, intervention development, and outcome measurement. Suggestions for addressing these areas also are presented.

This paper surveys research findings since the early 1970s, focusing on the growth processes of both traditional and modern industries and their relations with government activity in the period between the 1870s and 1940. Most of the surveyed research can be seen as a response to two theses: first, that pre‐1940 Japan was essentially a market‐led economy; and second, that the traditional sector did not decline in the industrialisation process, but in fact prospered. The survey argues that there were a good deal of interactions between the modern and traditional sectors at regional levels and that the regional economy occupied a significant place in the ways in which government business relations were structured.

Verfahren der Qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse (QIA), die überwiegend bei der Untersuchung von Textmaterial Verwendung finden, können auch bei der Untersuchung von Benutzeraktionen gewinnbringend eingesetzt werden. In diesem Artikel werden Kriterien für ein Softwaresystem entwickelt, das die Anwendung der QIA bei der Analyse von Benutzer-Programm-Interaktionen unterstützt. Ein Werkzeug wird vorgestellt, welches es erlaubt, Benutzeraktionen aufzuzeichnen, wiederzugeben und Methoden der QIA auf aufgezeichnete Aktionssequenzen anzuwenden. Zwei Verfahren der Kategorienbildung werden anhand eines Beispiels aus dem Gebiet der Analyse von Benutzeraktionen beschrieben: die induktive Kategorienentwicklung und die deduktive Kategorienanwendung. Vorteile dieser Verfahren für die Analyse von Benutzerverhalten sowie Konsequenzen für die Weiterentwicklung des Software-Systems werden diskutiert.

This paper reports on a study in which unique access to three locked psycho-geriatric wards of a hospital allowed ethnographic exploration into everyday social worlds of fourteen people with dementia. Findings indicate abusive practice in the wards and show that participants in receipt of such practice responded with self-defence and resistance, but ultimately were defeated. In a development of Sabat's (2001) Selfs 1–3 framework, I identify how abusive practice arose due to staffs' inability to recognise different aspects of patients' self. Recommendations for practice include integrating a developed Selfs 1–3 framework into staff training and evaluating its impact on practice.

A review essay applying academic & operational research community criteria of evaluation to a project founded on events/interaction data. The project, the Early Warning & Monitoring System (EWAMS), is built on solid academic research, but also takes into account requirements of the operational community. Differences in form & content from typical academic events/interaction research have been instrumental in putting the EWAMS into operational use. 2 Tables, 3 Figures, Appendix. HA.