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Delia Neuman is an assistant professor in the College of Library and Information Services at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written several articles on the use of naturalistic inquiry to study electronic environments, including two published in Educational Technology Research and Development: “Naturalistic Inquiry and Computer-Based Instruction: Rationale, Procedures and Potential” (Spring 1989) and “Learning Disabled Students' Interactions with Commercial Courseware: A Naturalistic Study” (Spring 1991). She is currently involved in a study funded by the American Library Association to use naturalistic methods to investigate high school students' use of CD-ROM and online databases.

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Neuman, D. Evaluating evolution: Naturalistic inquiry and the Perseus Project. Comput Hum 25, 239–246 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00116078

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