As Part of Her Consulting Work for a Hardware Development

Multiple Choice

As part of her consulting work for a hardware development company, a computer scientist attended meetings of the team developing a new tablet computer and used her expertise to contribute to its design. She also observed and recorded the group members' interactions for a study that she was conducting. The other group members knew about her research goals and procedure. The researcher was conducting a(n) ________ study.

A) complete participant observation
B) observer as participant
C) participant as observer
D) nonparticipant observation