21.10.2024:
Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover) and I got the short course Web tracking: Augmenting web surveys with data on website visits, search terms, and app use at the Conference of the European Survey Research Association in Utrecht (the Netherlands) accepted.
12.10.2024:
Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institute), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I got the paper Automatic speech-to-text transcription: Evidence from a smartphone survey with voice answers in International Journal of Social Research Methodology accepted.
11.10.2024:
Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), Saijal Shahania (DZHW, University of Magdeburg), David Broneske (DZHW, University of Magdeburg), and I got the paper Bots in web survey interviews: A showcase in International Journal of Market Research accepted.
10.10.2024:
Marco Angrisani (University of Southern California), Frederick Conrad (University of Michigan), Arie Kapteyn (University of Southern California), Florian Keusch (University of Mannheim), and I got the session Exploring agent-based interviewing in web surveys at the 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Utrecht in 2025 accepted.
10.10.2024:
Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), Oriol Bosch (Oxford University), and I got the session Bridging methodology and computational social science at the 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Utrecht in 2025 accepted.
10.10.2024:
Simon Kühne (Bielefeld University) and I got the session Merits and limits of respondent recruitment through social media at the 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Utrecht in 2025 accepted.
10.10.2024:
Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), Saijal Shahania (DZHW), David Broneske (DZHW), and I presented the paper Bots in web survey interviews: A showcase at the DGS Method Section Conference “Computational Sociology” in Bremen (Germany).
02.10.2024:
Andreas Jungherr (Bamberg University), Adrian Rauchfleisch (Zurich University), and Alexander Wuttke (Ludwig Maximilians University) talk about Deceptive uses of Artificial Intelligence in elections strengthen support for AI ban in the CS3 Meeting on November 14, 2024, from 4:15 to 5:00 PM.
02.10.2024:
Saijal Shahania, Joshua Claassen, Jan Karem Höhne, & David Broneske (DZHW) talk about The bot that lived: SurveyBot’s role in automated web survey pretesting in the CS3 Meeting on November 24, 2024, from 3:15 to 4:00 PM.
16.09.2024:
I just started as visiting professor at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences working with Timo Lenzner.
10.09.2024:
The Summer School in Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS) in Hannover (Germany) invited me to give a talk on Innovating mixed methods: Merits and limits of open voice answers from smartphone surveys.
09.09.2024:
David Broneske (DZHW, University of Magdeburg) and I just kicked-off the Summer School in Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS) in Hannover (Germany) with an emphasis in recent methodological and statistical advances.
20.08.2024:
Laura Boeschoten (Utrecht University) talks about Digital trace data collection through data donation in the CS3 Meeting on December 12, 2024, from 3:15 to 4:00 PM.
03.08.2024:
Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institute), Konstantin Gavras (Nesto Software GmbH), and I published the paper Innovating web probing: Comparing written and oral answers to open-ended probing questions in a smartphone survey in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
29.07.2024
Cornelia Neuert (GESIS – Leibniz Institute), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I presented the paper Can life-like virtual interviewers increase the quality of answers to open questions? at the 77th Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) in Seoul (South Korea).
28.07.2024:
The 77th Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) invited me to give the training workshop Applied introduction to the collection of paradata and sensor data in Seoul (South Korea).
17.07.2024:
Ádám Stefkovics (Harvard University) and I published the paper Examining the link between the ‘middle means typical’ heuristic and answer behavior in Survey Practice.
16.07.2024
Saijal Shahania (DZHW), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), David Broneske (DZHW), and I got the paper Evaluating the risk of bots in web surveys recruited through social media accepted for the upcoming conference on Computational Sociology: Methodological Challenges in Research and Teaching organized by the Method Section of the German Sociological Society (DGS) in Bremen (Germany).
11.07.2024
Anke Radinger, Ulrike Efu Nkong, and Dorothée Behr (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) talk about Comparing professional translators and social scientists when producing questionnaire translations from scratch vs. based on machine translation output in the CS3 Meeting on January 16, 2025, from 3:15 to 4:00 PM.
04.07.2024
Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institute), Konstantin Gavras (Nesto Software GmbH), and I got the paper Innovating web probing: Comparing written and oral answers to open-ended probing questions in a smartphone survey in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology accepted.
20.06.2024
Saijal Shahania (DZHW), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), David Broneske (DZHW), and I presented the paper Bot behavior in web surveys: A showcase at the Conference on Data collection, data quality and data ethics in the age of artificial intelligence in Wiesbaden (Germany).
28.05.2024:
Konstantin Gavras (Nesto Software GmbH), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I published the paper Typing or speaking? Comparing text and voice answers to open questions on sensitive topics in smartphone surveys in Social Science Computer Review.
26.05.2024:
Ádám Stefkovics (Harvard University) and I got the paper Examining the link between middle means typical heuristic and answer behavior in Survey Practice accepted.
17.05.2024:
Melanie Revilla (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals), Mick P. Couper (University of Michigan), and I presented the paper Respondent-centered incentives: Increasing answer provision when it comes to voice answers to open questions at the 79th Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Atlanta (USA).
17.05.2024:
Fred Conrad (University of Michigan), Cornelia Neuert (GESIS – Leibniz Institue), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I presented the paper Exploring effects of life-like virtual interviewers on respondents’ answers in a smartphone survey at the 79th Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in Atlanta (USA).
09.05.2024:
Florian Keusch (University of Mannheim), Peter Lugtig (Utrecht University), Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University), and I just released the presentation recordings of the 5th Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) workshop through YouTube. Check them out!!
23.04.2024:
The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) elected me to join their Education Committee.
17.04.2024:
David Broneske (DZHW, University of Magdeburg) and I just launched the call for the Summer School in Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS) in Hannover from September 9 to 13, 2024. Apply by May 17, 2024!!
16.04.2024:
The Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim (Germany) invited me to give a talk on the Merits and limits of open voice answers from a smartphone survey.
10.04.2024:
Camilla Salvatore (Utrecht University) and I got the paper Explaining item-nonresponse in open questions with requests for voice responses in the Conference Proceeding of the Italian Statistical Society accepted.
09.04.2024:
Fred Conrad (University of Michigan), Cornelia Neuert (GESIS – Leibniz Institue), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I presented the paper Exploring effects of life-like virtual interviewers on respondents’ answers in a smartphone survey at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin (Germany).
03.04.2024:
Florian Keusch (University of Mannheim), Peter Lugtig (Utrecht University), Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University), and I just released the presentations of the 5th “Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys” (MASS) workshop held in Washington, DC. Check them out!!
21.03.2024:
Konstantin Gavras (Nesto Software GmbH), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I got the paper Typing or speaking? Comparing text and voice answers to open questions on sensitive topics in smartphone surveys in Social Science Computer Review accepted.
18.03.2024:
Melanie Revilla (Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals, IBEI), Mick P. Couper (University of Michigan), and I presented the paper Respondent-centered incentives: Increasing answer provision when it comes to voice answers to open questions at the WEBDATAOPP workshop in Barcelona (Spain).
14.03.2024:
Saijal Shahania (DZHW), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), David Broneske (DZHW), and I presented the paper Mitigating the risk of bots in web surveys recruited via social media at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University (the Netherlands).
06.03.2024:
Florian Keusch (University of Mannheim), Peter Lugtig (Utrecht University), Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University), and I hold the 5th Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) workshop in Washingtion DC (USA) together with the Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) conference.
22.02.2024:
Fred Conrad (University of Michigan), Cornelia Neuert (GESIS – Leibniz Institue), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), and I presented the paper Exploring effects of life-like virtual interviewers on respondents’ answers in a smartphone survey at the General Online Research Conference in Cologne (Germany).
22.02.2024:
Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institue) and I presented the paper API vs. human coder: Comparing the performance of speech-to-text transcription using voice answers from a smartphone survey at the General Online Research Conference in Cologne (Germany).
16.02.2024:
Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover) and I published the paper Examining final comment questions with requests for written and oral answers in International Journal of Market Research.
12.02.2024:
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim invited me for a three-month research stay in 2024 to work on Conversational interviewing through real-time processing of digital data. Can’t wait to start!
02.01.2024:
I just started as visiting professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University working with Peter Lugtig and Bella Struminskaya.
20.12.2023:
The German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) installed the CS3 lab for computational survey and social science with me as head.
15.12.2023:
The Royal Statistical Society invited me to present the study How to incorporate AI interviewers in contemporary web surveys at its online event Going online: using video interviewing in survey research on 10th January 2024. Join the event!
14.12.2023:
The Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER) conference taking place in Washingtion, DC in March 2024 elected me for its scientific committee.
11.12.2023:
Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institue) and I presented the paper API vs. human: Comparing the performance of speech to text transcription using voice answers from a smartphone survey at the Institute for Sociology at the Leibniz University Hannover (Germany).
28.11.2023:
Christoph Kern (University of Munich), Konstantin Gavras (Nesto Software GmbH), Stephan Schlosser (University of Göttingen), and I published the open-access paper The sound of respondents: predicting respondents’ level of interest in questions with voice data in smartphone surveys in Quality and Quantity.
13.11.2023:
The Business School at Universidad San Francisco de Quito just invited me to present my joint paper Typing or speaking? Comparing text and voice answers to open questions on sensitive topics in smartphone surveys with Konstantin Gavras (Nesto Software GmbH).
26.10.2023:
BigSurv23 conference just invited me to take part in their plenary panel My chatbot is hallucinating about your digital trace. A discussion about the future of computational social sciences in the era of AI in Quito (Ecuador).
23.10.2023:
Saijal Shahania (DZHW), Joshua Claaßen (DZHW), and I got the project Mitigating the risk of bots in web surveys recruited via social media funded by the German Society for Online Research (DGOF).
19.10.2023:
Florian Keusch (University of Mannheim), Peter Lugtig (Utrecht University), Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University), and I just launched the call for papers of the 5th Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) workshop in Washington DC (USA) from March 6 to 7, 2024.
21.09.2023:
Tobias Rettig (University of Mannheim), Melanie Revilla (Barcelona Institute of International Studies), and I presented the paper Attention please! Comparing different ways of presenting an instruction manipulation check in a probability-based online panel at the General Online Research Conference in Kassel in 2023.
05.09.2023:
Peter Lugtig and Bella Struminskaya just invited me for a three-months research stay to the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University in 2024. Can’t wait to start!
01.09.2023:
Conrad Ziller (University of Duisburg-Essen), Timo Lenzner (GESIS – Leibniz Institute), and I published the paper Investigating respondents’ willingness to participate in video-based web surveys in International Journal of Market Research.