Fig 1.
Natural Reserve of Serra de Santa Bárbara and Mistérios Negros—Terceira’s Nature Park.
Table 1.
Analytical model of the CP technique’s efficacy.
Fig 2.
Station sign displaying the original Portuguese title ‘Viaja no Tempo’ (‘Travel in Time’).
Fig 3.
The Field Guide cultural probe toolkit canvas bag (with original project title in Portuguese).
Fig 4.
Toolkit bag contents.
Fig 5.
Question tokens (with questions in Portuguese).
Table 2.
Station titles and their corresponding activities.
Table 3.
Content-free questions.
Table 4.
Field Guide cultural probe toolkit, according to the categories and functions described by Thoring et al. [22].
Fig 6.
One participant touches water of the lagoon that can be found on the trail.
Fig 7.
Distribution of valid participant questions (n = 164) according to the approach adopted in questioning by age group.
In total, younger participants generated 93 questions, and older participants generated 71 questions.
Fig 8.
Distribution of ‘productive’ and ‘strategic’ questions (n = 93) of younger participants (ages 10–14) according to the stations where they were formulated (the total number of questions produced in each station varies between 15 and 16).
Fig 9.
Distribution of ‘productive’ and ‘strategic’ questions (n = 71) of older participants (between the ages of 15–18) according to the stations where they were formulated (the total number of questions produced in each station varies between 11 and 12).
Fig 10.
Distribution of ‘productive’ and ‘strategic’ questions (n = 164) according to the question tokens used in their production.
Table 5.
Illustrative responses from the final free, open-ended activity according to three types of ‘‘dominant themes”, inspired by Litfin [1995].
Fig 11.
Distribution of participants (n = 34), according to age group, by the dominant theme of their responses to the final free, open-ended activity.
Fig 12.
Distribution of participants (n = 34), according to age groups, by the degree of the evaluative judgements expressed in their responses to the final free, open-ended activity.
Fig 13.
Results of the lexical similarity analysis representing the relationships between the 34 responses to the final free, open-ended activity.
Line thickness and numbers correspond to the frequency of co-occurrence, circle sizes to evocation frequency, and each color aggregates clusters of meaning.
Fig 14.
Distribution of self-reported motivations (n = 35) to return to the trail, collected in the post-trail activity from the 33 participants, according to focus and age group.