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Title New Ways of Survey Data Collection: Touchscreens
Author Weichbold, M.
Source Methodology and Statistics, 2002
Year 2002
Access date 31.03.2004
Abstract Empirical research in the social sciences is unthinkable today without computers. From a historic view, they were firstly used for data analysis, but over the years also all other phases of the research process were carried out with the support of computers: project planning as well as sampling, organisational things as well as the presentation of the results. The ’last’ computer-free part for a long time was the interview situation itself: even in Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing - CATI - the answers are ’produced’ in a dialogue between the interviewer and the respondent, who himself is not aware of the computer. Although some forms of computer-based self-administered questionnaires were presented already in the seventies (e.g. disk-by-mail), they didn’t gain any significance in empirical social research. But again it was a question of time: with the increasing number of computers in private use and their connection via the Internet, World-Wide-Websurveys were the first data collection method to become popular with the respondent answering a questionnaire directly facing the computer. But there are further forms of computer-based interviewing that might play a major role in future: For a few years I am working on surveys using touchscreen terminals. The results of various studies are very encouraging, although some methodological questions are still open. The presentation firstly gives a short description of touchscreen interviewing and its fields of application; in a second step some characteristics of touchscreen-surveys will be discussed. At last a comparison with WWW-Surveys will lead us to the question, whether it is possible to work out some characteristics for computerbased forms of data collection.
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Year of publication2002
Bibliographic typeConferences, workshops, tutorials, presentations
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