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July 29, 2024
I am excited to announce that Alexander Wenz and I won the2024 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award from the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) for our paper Increasing the Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Data Collection published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
May 27, 2024
Another paper co-authored with Ruben Bach, Henning Silber, Frederic Gerdon, Matthias Schonlau, and Jette Schröder is out Information, Communication and Society: To share or not to share – Understanding individuals’ willingness to share biomarkers, sensor data, and medical records.
May 23, 2024
New paper Estimating Measurement Quality in Digital Trace Data and Surveys Using the MultiTrait MultiMethod Model, co-authored with Alexandru Cernat, Ruben Bach, and Paulina Pankowska, was just published in Social Science Computer Review.
March 1, 2024
I am very honored to have received the Social Science Computer Review Top Peer Reviewer Award 2023. I have also accepted the invitation to serve on SSCR's Editorial Board.
January 12, 2024
New year, two new papers: Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk about Your Data? Willingness to Participate and Nonparticipation Bias in Facebook Data Donation (with Paulina Pankowska, Alexandru Cernat, and Ruben Bach) in Field Methods and Measuring Smartphone Use: Survey Versus Digital Behavioral Data (with Alexander Wenz and Ruben Bach) in Social Science Computer Review.
November 20, 2023
We just published a Special Issue on Food Acquisition Research and Methods in Survey Methods: Insight from the Field. Here is our editorial.
June 12, 2023
Alexander Wenz and I have a new paper published: Increasing the Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Data Collection.
May 18, 2023
I am very honored to have received the 2023 Teaching Award from the University of Mannheim SoPo (sociology and political science) Student's Council.
May 12, 2023
I am proud to announce that I was elected Associate Education Chair to the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). I will serve on the AAPOR Executive Council for two years.
December 1, 2022
Together with Stephanie Eckman, Bella Struminskaya, and Heidi Guyer, I am currently writing a book on Data Collection with Wearables, Apps, and Sensors. The first chapter is now available online, and we would appreciate feedback at [email protected].
November 30, 2022
Alexander Wenz and I have a new paper out in Mobile Media & Communication: The second-level smartphone divide: A typology of smartphone use based on frequency of use, skills, and types of activities.
November 9, 2022
Two new papers out: Linking surveys and digital trace data: Insights from two studies on determinants of data sharing behavior in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A and Comparing single-sitting versus modular text message surveys in Egypt in International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
September 30, 2022
We (Christoph Kern, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben Bach, Frauke Kreuter, and I) have a new paper published: Humans vs. machines: Who is perceived to decide fairer? Experimental evidence on attitudes towards automated decision-making in Patterns.
August 9, 2022
Together with Ruben Bach and Alexandru Cernat, I published a paper in Internet Research on Reactivity in measuring sensitive online behavior.
April 12, 2022
A new paper on Non-participation in smartphone data collection using research apps just got published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A.
March 22, 2022
I am now Professor of Social Data Science and Methodology in the Department Sociology at the University of Mannheim.
November 14, 2021
Frauke Kreuter and I have published a chapter on Digital trace data. Modes of data collection, applications, and errors at a glance in the new Handbook of Computational Social Science. Volume 1: Theory, Case Studies and Ethics. The chapter is available open access.
October 22, 2021
Together with colleagues from the Social Data Science Center at the University of Maryland and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I am organizing the International Food Acquisition Research and Methods (iFARM) Workshop to be held on October 19-20, 2022 at the University of Maryland – College Park. Deadline for submissions is December 6, 2021.
October 11, 2021
Alex Wenz, Fred Conrad, and I just got our paper "Do you have your smartphone with you? Behavioral barriers for measuring everyday activities with smartphone sensors" published in Computers in Human Behavior.
September 27, 2021
New paper out: Using Smartphones to Capture and Combine Self-Reports and Passively Measured Behavior in Social Research co-authored with Fred Conrad and published in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
July 7, 2021
The German marketing research portal marktforschung.de interviewed Bella Struminskaya and me about the upcoming GOR 21 conference.
May 24, 2021
A new paper, co-authored by Paul Bauer, Frederic Gerdon, Frauke Kreuter, Dave Vannette, and myself, was recently published in Information, Communication & Society: "Did the GDPR increase trust in data collectors? Evidence from observational and experimental data."
December 21, 2020
Together with Bella Struminskaya, Peter Lugtig, and Jan Karem Höhne, I edited a special issue of Social Science Computer Review on Using Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys. Here is our editorial.
December 10, 2020
Bella Struminskaya and I edited a special issue of Survey Methods: Insights from the Field on Advancements in Online and Mobile Survey Methods. Here is the editorial and I am also a co-author on a paper on Using geofences to collect survey data: Lessons learned from the IAB-SMART study.
December 8, 2020
A new paper with Alex Cernat titled Do surveys change behaviour? Insights from digital trace data was just published in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
October 1, 2020
I wrote an entry on Gamification in Web Surveys for the SAGE Research Methods Foundations.
September 9, 2020
I have contributed to three chapters in the new Wiley book on Big Data Meets Survey Science: A Collection of Innovative Methods.
August 6, 2020
New paper titled Missing Data and Other Measurement Quality Issues in Mobile Geolocation Sensor Data, co-authored with Sebastian Bähr, Georg-Christoph Haas, Frauke Kreuter, and Mark Trappmann, is out in Social Science Computer Review.
June 15, 2020
New chapter out, titled Datenqualitätsprobleme bei der umfragebasierten Messung von studentischem Workload: Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie auf Grundlage von Learning Analytics und kognitiven Interviews [Data quality problems in survey-based measurement of student workload: A mixed-mode study using learning analytics and cognitive interviewing] co-authored with Zhenya Samoliova and Tobias Wolbring.
June 10, 2020
I will be teaching a two-week online course this July on Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences together with Heidi Guyer as part of the University of Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. There is still time to enroll in the course!
April 29, 2020
I am extremely honored to announce that I was selected to serve as one of the next associate editors for survey methodology for Public Opinion Quarterly starting July 1.
April 8, 2020
A new paper on Coverage Error in Data Collection Combining Mobile Surveys With Passive Measurement Using Apps was just published in Sociological Methods & Research.
April 7, 2020
My friend and colleague, Alex Cernat from the University of Manchester, interviewed me about my career and work for his blog.
February 5, 2020
Frauke Kreuter and I have a new book chapter out (in German): Zukunft der Aus- und Weiterbildung in der Markt- und Sozialforschung [The future of education in markt and social research].
December 21, 2019
Our paper on New Data Sources in Social Science Research: Things to Know Before Working With Reddit Data just got published in Social Science Computer Review. Thanks to Ashley Amaya for taking the lead on this project.
December 1, 2019
I am one of the co-authors of a book chapter on Learning from Mouse Movements: Improving Questionnaire and Respondents’ User Experience through Passive Data Collection in the new Wiley book Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing.
October 30, 2019
Together with Bella Struminskaya, I will be teaching a two-day NCRM workshop on Using Smartphone Sensors, Apps and Wearables in Social Science Research in London on March 19 and 20, 2020.
October 23, 2019
I am one of the authors of a new paper on "Predicting voting behavior using digital trace data" in Social Science Computer Review.
October 6, 2019
New book chapter on "Impact of response scale features on survey responses to factual/behavioral questions" co-authored with Ting Yan is out!
September 20, 2019
Call for the 2nd Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop out. Submit your abstracts by November 20, 2019 and join us in Utrecht on April, 23-24 2020.
September 5, 2019
Bella Struminskaya and I are guest editing a special issue of Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (SMIF) on "Advancements in Online and Mobile Survey Methods". Submission deadline is January 15, 2020.
September 4, 2019
Call for the General Online Research Conference (GOR20) next year (March 11-13, 2020) in Berlin, Germany is out. Please submit your work to one of our three tracks: Survey Research: Advancements in Online and Mobile Web Surveys (Track A), Data Science: From Big Data to Smart Data (Track B), and Politics, Public Opinion, and Communication (Track C).
August 22, 2019
Paul Bauer, Frauke Kreuter, and I just published a paper in PLoS One on Trust and cooperative behavior when sharing data.
August 13, 2019
I am now an Associate Editor of Survey Research Methods, the Journal of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). Please consider submitting your survey-related manuscripts there.
August 1, 2019
From August 2019 to January 2021, I will be Professor of Statistics and Methodology (interim) [Vertretungsprofessor] in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim.
July 8, 2019
I recently joined the review board of the ESSnet Big Data, a project within the European Statistical System (ESS).
June 6, 2019
Another paper just got published online in Public Opinion Quarterly: Willingness to Participate in Passive Mobile Data Collection. Great collaborative work with Bella Struminskaya, Chris Antoun, Mick Couper, and Frauke Kreuter.
May 31, 2019
We have a new paper out: Using Smartphone Technology for Research on Refugees: Evidence from Germany written together with my student Mariel Leonard as well as Susan Steiner and Christoph Sajons was just published online in Sociological Methods & Research.
May 6, 2019
Next week, I will attend my 10th AAPOR conference in Toronto - happy AAPOR-versary to me! At the conference, I will teach a short course on Augmenting Surveys With Data From Smartphone Sensors and Apps (together with Bella Struminskaya), give a presentation on Coverage and Nonparticipation Error in Smartphone Data Collection, and provide a Portal Session on Mobile Web Surveys (together with Chris Antoun).
April 27, 2019
On April 30, I will be talking about Combining Self-reports with Passive Data Collection on Smartphones at the University of Manchester Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.
April 19, 2019
Next week, I will be teaching a two-day short course on Web Survey Design for the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington DC.
March 8, 2019
I am excited to announce that I was reelected to the board of the German Society for Online Research.
December 21, 2018
The first paper from our IAB-SMART app project was just published online first in Social Science Computer Review: Collecting Survey and Smartphone Sensor Data With an App: Opportunities and Challenges Around Privacy and Informed Consent. Many more hopefully to follow soon.
December 10, 2018
Our paper "Is Satisficing Responsible for Response Order Effects in Rating Scale Questions?" was recently published in Survey Research Methods.
November 28, 2018
marktforschung.de interviewed me and my fellow DGOF board member, Alexandra Wachenfeld, about the "representativeness" of online samples.
October 17, 2018
Next week I will be at BigSurv18 in Barcelona. There I will chair a session on smartphone sensor measurement and present a study on users' concerns when using smartphones for data collection tasks.
October 2, 2018
Two new book chapters on Cross-cultural comparability of response patterns of expectation questions and Response styles in cross-cultural surveys co-authored with former colleagues at the University of Michigan just got published.
September 25, 2018
Chris Antoun (University of Maryland) and I were awarded a grant from the University of Maryland 2018 Global Classroom Initiative. The grant will allow us to develop a graduate-level course on "Big Data in Immigration Research" which we will teach together at the University of Maryland and the University of Mannheim in Spring/Summer 2019.
September 11, 2018
I am Programme Chair of the upcoming General Online Research Conference (GOR19). Please submit your work to one of our three tracks: Internet Surveys, Mobile Web, and Online Research Methodology (Track A), Big Data and Data Science (Track B), Politics and Communication (Track C). See the full call for papers here.
August 17, 2018
Call for Papers for DAGStat 2019 in Munich is out. Please consider submitting your work to our session on "Official Statistics and Survey Statistics".
May 1, 2018
Wanna learn about different Data Collection Methods? Take my two-day short course in the Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques.
March 1, 2018
A new paper titled A Typology of Web Survey Paradata for Assessing Total Survey Error written with former colleagues at the University of Michigan was just published in Social Science Computer Review.
February 8, 2018
Only three more weeks untill GOR18 in Cologne. Check out this article in Planung & Analyse.
Febrary 3, 2018
In two weeks, I will be chairing a session on "Survey Data Collection: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives" at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement in Science in Austin, Texas.
December 29, 2017
Check out the great program for GOR18 in Cologne that my colleagues and I have put together. See also this interview on marktforschung.de with Bella Struminskaya (Conference Program Chair) and me (Conference Program Vice Chair).
November 4, 2017
Next week, I will be speaking on "Participation in passive mobile data collection" at the Institute for Social and Economic Research,
University of Essex.
October 2, 2017
I was recently interviewed by the Austrian magazine emedia about the role of online data collection in polling for the Austrian national election.
September 13, 2017
I have the honor to vice-chair the next General Online Research (GOR) conference in Cologne from February 28 to March 2, 2018. If you do research on online data collection, please see the Call for Papers and consider submitting your work.
July 31, 2017
Together with Silvia Schacht and other colleagues from KIT, we have a new research-in-progress paper published on Web survey gamification. Increasing data quality in web surveys by using game design elements.
July 12, 2017
Next week, I will be attending the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Lisbon, Portugal. I will be giving a presentation titled "In your opinion, in which direction should the answer categories go?" and host a session on "Passive Mobile Data Collection."
April 21, 2017
Together with my colleagues Zhenya Samoilova and Tobias Wolbring, we recently published a paper on "Learning Analytics and Survey Data Integration in Workload Research" in the Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung.
March 21, 2017
I am proud to announce that last week, I was elected to the board of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF).
February 24, 2017
Mingnan Liu and I just got our paper on "Effects of Scale Direction on Response Style of Ordinal Rating Scales" published in the Journal of Official Statistics.
November 25, 2016
On Thursday, December 1, I will speak at the Unipark Community Meeting in Munich about straightlining in web surveys.
November 3, 2016
The paper "Web Versus Mobile Web. An Experimental Study of Device Effects and Self-Selection Effects" - co-authored with Ting Yan - has been published online before print in Social Science Computer Review.
August 1, 2016
I am excited to announce that I have accepted an offer to join the University of Mannheim as an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Methodology in the Department of Sociology.
March 25, 2016
Want to learn more about Data Collection Methods? I will be teaching a course in the Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques together with Frederick Conrad.
I am excited to announce that Alexander Wenz and I won the
May 27, 2024
Another paper co-authored with Ruben Bach, Henning Silber, Frederic Gerdon, Matthias Schonlau, and Jette Schröder is out Information, Communication and Society: To share or not to share – Understanding individuals’ willingness to share biomarkers, sensor data, and medical records.
May 23, 2024
New paper Estimating Measurement Quality in Digital Trace Data and Surveys Using the MultiTrait MultiMethod Model, co-authored with Alexandru Cernat, Ruben Bach, and Paulina Pankowska, was just published in Social Science Computer Review.
March 1, 2024
I am very honored to have received the Social Science Computer Review Top Peer Reviewer Award 2023. I have also accepted the invitation to serve on SSCR's Editorial Board.
January 12, 2024
New year, two new papers: Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk about Your Data? Willingness to Participate and Nonparticipation Bias in Facebook Data Donation (with Paulina Pankowska, Alexandru Cernat, and Ruben Bach) in Field Methods and Measuring Smartphone Use: Survey Versus Digital Behavioral Data (with Alexander Wenz and Ruben Bach) in Social Science Computer Review.
November 20, 2023
We just published a Special Issue on Food Acquisition Research and Methods in Survey Methods: Insight from the Field. Here is our editorial.
June 12, 2023
Alexander Wenz and I have a new paper published: Increasing the Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Data Collection.
May 18, 2023
I am very honored to have received the 2023 Teaching Award from the University of Mannheim SoPo (sociology and political science) Student's Council.
May 12, 2023
I am proud to announce that I was elected Associate Education Chair to the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). I will serve on the AAPOR Executive Council for two years.
December 1, 2022
Together with Stephanie Eckman, Bella Struminskaya, and Heidi Guyer, I am currently writing a book on Data Collection with Wearables, Apps, and Sensors. The first chapter is now available online, and we would appreciate feedback at [email protected].
November 30, 2022
Alexander Wenz and I have a new paper out in Mobile Media & Communication: The second-level smartphone divide: A typology of smartphone use based on frequency of use, skills, and types of activities.
November 9, 2022
Two new papers out: Linking surveys and digital trace data: Insights from two studies on determinants of data sharing behavior in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A and Comparing single-sitting versus modular text message surveys in Egypt in International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
September 30, 2022
We (Christoph Kern, Frederic Gerdon, Ruben Bach, Frauke Kreuter, and I) have a new paper published: Humans vs. machines: Who is perceived to decide fairer? Experimental evidence on attitudes towards automated decision-making in Patterns.
August 9, 2022
Together with Ruben Bach and Alexandru Cernat, I published a paper in Internet Research on Reactivity in measuring sensitive online behavior.
April 12, 2022
A new paper on Non-participation in smartphone data collection using research apps just got published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A.
March 22, 2022
I am now Professor of Social Data Science and Methodology in the Department Sociology at the University of Mannheim.
November 14, 2021
Frauke Kreuter and I have published a chapter on Digital trace data. Modes of data collection, applications, and errors at a glance in the new Handbook of Computational Social Science. Volume 1: Theory, Case Studies and Ethics. The chapter is available open access.
October 22, 2021
Together with colleagues from the Social Data Science Center at the University of Maryland and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I am organizing the International Food Acquisition Research and Methods (iFARM) Workshop to be held on October 19-20, 2022 at the University of Maryland – College Park. Deadline for submissions is December 6, 2021.
October 11, 2021
Alex Wenz, Fred Conrad, and I just got our paper "Do you have your smartphone with you? Behavioral barriers for measuring everyday activities with smartphone sensors" published in Computers in Human Behavior.
September 27, 2021
New paper out: Using Smartphones to Capture and Combine Self-Reports and Passively Measured Behavior in Social Research co-authored with Fred Conrad and published in the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
July 7, 2021
The German marketing research portal marktforschung.de interviewed Bella Struminskaya and me about the upcoming GOR 21 conference.
May 24, 2021
A new paper, co-authored by Paul Bauer, Frederic Gerdon, Frauke Kreuter, Dave Vannette, and myself, was recently published in Information, Communication & Society: "Did the GDPR increase trust in data collectors? Evidence from observational and experimental data."
December 21, 2020
Together with Bella Struminskaya, Peter Lugtig, and Jan Karem Höhne, I edited a special issue of Social Science Computer Review on Using Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys. Here is our editorial.
December 10, 2020
Bella Struminskaya and I edited a special issue of Survey Methods: Insights from the Field on Advancements in Online and Mobile Survey Methods. Here is the editorial and I am also a co-author on a paper on Using geofences to collect survey data: Lessons learned from the IAB-SMART study.
December 8, 2020
A new paper with Alex Cernat titled Do surveys change behaviour? Insights from digital trace data was just published in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
October 1, 2020
I wrote an entry on Gamification in Web Surveys for the SAGE Research Methods Foundations.
September 9, 2020
I have contributed to three chapters in the new Wiley book on Big Data Meets Survey Science: A Collection of Innovative Methods.
August 6, 2020
New paper titled Missing Data and Other Measurement Quality Issues in Mobile Geolocation Sensor Data, co-authored with Sebastian Bähr, Georg-Christoph Haas, Frauke Kreuter, and Mark Trappmann, is out in Social Science Computer Review.
June 15, 2020
New chapter out, titled Datenqualitätsprobleme bei der umfragebasierten Messung von studentischem Workload: Eine Mixed-Methods-Studie auf Grundlage von Learning Analytics und kognitiven Interviews [Data quality problems in survey-based measurement of student workload: A mixed-mode study using learning analytics and cognitive interviewing] co-authored with Zhenya Samoliova and Tobias Wolbring.
June 10, 2020
I will be teaching a two-week online course this July on Data Collection Using Wearables, Sensors, and Apps in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences together with Heidi Guyer as part of the University of Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. There is still time to enroll in the course!
April 29, 2020
I am extremely honored to announce that I was selected to serve as one of the next associate editors for survey methodology for Public Opinion Quarterly starting July 1.
April 8, 2020
A new paper on Coverage Error in Data Collection Combining Mobile Surveys With Passive Measurement Using Apps was just published in Sociological Methods & Research.
April 7, 2020
My friend and colleague, Alex Cernat from the University of Manchester, interviewed me about my career and work for his blog.
February 5, 2020
Frauke Kreuter and I have a new book chapter out (in German): Zukunft der Aus- und Weiterbildung in der Markt- und Sozialforschung [The future of education in markt and social research].
December 21, 2019
Our paper on New Data Sources in Social Science Research: Things to Know Before Working With Reddit Data just got published in Social Science Computer Review. Thanks to Ashley Amaya for taking the lead on this project.
December 1, 2019
I am one of the co-authors of a book chapter on Learning from Mouse Movements: Improving Questionnaire and Respondents’ User Experience through Passive Data Collection in the new Wiley book Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing.
October 30, 2019
Together with Bella Struminskaya, I will be teaching a two-day NCRM workshop on Using Smartphone Sensors, Apps and Wearables in Social Science Research in London on March 19 and 20, 2020.
October 23, 2019
I am one of the authors of a new paper on "Predicting voting behavior using digital trace data" in Social Science Computer Review.
October 6, 2019
New book chapter on "Impact of response scale features on survey responses to factual/behavioral questions" co-authored with Ting Yan is out!
September 20, 2019
Call for the 2nd Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop out. Submit your abstracts by November 20, 2019 and join us in Utrecht on April, 23-24 2020.
September 5, 2019
Bella Struminskaya and I are guest editing a special issue of Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (SMIF) on "Advancements in Online and Mobile Survey Methods". Submission deadline is January 15, 2020.
September 4, 2019
Call for the General Online Research Conference (GOR20) next year (March 11-13, 2020) in Berlin, Germany is out. Please submit your work to one of our three tracks: Survey Research: Advancements in Online and Mobile Web Surveys (Track A), Data Science: From Big Data to Smart Data (Track B), and Politics, Public Opinion, and Communication (Track C).
August 22, 2019
Paul Bauer, Frauke Kreuter, and I just published a paper in PLoS One on Trust and cooperative behavior when sharing data.
August 13, 2019
I am now an Associate Editor of Survey Research Methods, the Journal of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). Please consider submitting your survey-related manuscripts there.
August 1, 2019
From August 2019 to January 2021, I will be Professor of Statistics and Methodology (interim) [Vertretungsprofessor] in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim.
July 8, 2019
I recently joined the review board of the ESSnet Big Data, a project within the European Statistical System (ESS).
June 6, 2019
Another paper just got published online in Public Opinion Quarterly: Willingness to Participate in Passive Mobile Data Collection. Great collaborative work with Bella Struminskaya, Chris Antoun, Mick Couper, and Frauke Kreuter.
May 31, 2019
We have a new paper out: Using Smartphone Technology for Research on Refugees: Evidence from Germany written together with my student Mariel Leonard as well as Susan Steiner and Christoph Sajons was just published online in Sociological Methods & Research.
May 6, 2019
Next week, I will attend my 10th AAPOR conference in Toronto - happy AAPOR-versary to me! At the conference, I will teach a short course on Augmenting Surveys With Data From Smartphone Sensors and Apps (together with Bella Struminskaya), give a presentation on Coverage and Nonparticipation Error in Smartphone Data Collection, and provide a Portal Session on Mobile Web Surveys (together with Chris Antoun).
April 27, 2019
On April 30, I will be talking about Combining Self-reports with Passive Data Collection on Smartphones at the University of Manchester Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.
April 19, 2019
Next week, I will be teaching a two-day short course on Web Survey Design for the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington DC.
March 8, 2019
I am excited to announce that I was reelected to the board of the German Society for Online Research.
December 21, 2018
The first paper from our IAB-SMART app project was just published online first in Social Science Computer Review: Collecting Survey and Smartphone Sensor Data With an App: Opportunities and Challenges Around Privacy and Informed Consent. Many more hopefully to follow soon.
December 10, 2018
Our paper "Is Satisficing Responsible for Response Order Effects in Rating Scale Questions?" was recently published in Survey Research Methods.
November 28, 2018
marktforschung.de interviewed me and my fellow DGOF board member, Alexandra Wachenfeld, about the "representativeness" of online samples.
October 17, 2018
Next week I will be at BigSurv18 in Barcelona. There I will chair a session on smartphone sensor measurement and present a study on users' concerns when using smartphones for data collection tasks.
October 2, 2018
Two new book chapters on Cross-cultural comparability of response patterns of expectation questions and Response styles in cross-cultural surveys co-authored with former colleagues at the University of Michigan just got published.
September 25, 2018
Chris Antoun (University of Maryland) and I were awarded a grant from the University of Maryland 2018 Global Classroom Initiative. The grant will allow us to develop a graduate-level course on "Big Data in Immigration Research" which we will teach together at the University of Maryland and the University of Mannheim in Spring/Summer 2019.
September 11, 2018
I am Programme Chair of the upcoming General Online Research Conference (GOR19). Please submit your work to one of our three tracks: Internet Surveys, Mobile Web, and Online Research Methodology (Track A), Big Data and Data Science (Track B), Politics and Communication (Track C). See the full call for papers here.
August 17, 2018
Call for Papers for DAGStat 2019 in Munich is out. Please consider submitting your work to our session on "Official Statistics and Survey Statistics".
May 1, 2018
Wanna learn about different Data Collection Methods? Take my two-day short course in the Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques.
March 1, 2018
A new paper titled A Typology of Web Survey Paradata for Assessing Total Survey Error written with former colleagues at the University of Michigan was just published in Social Science Computer Review.
February 8, 2018
Only three more weeks untill GOR18 in Cologne. Check out this article in Planung & Analyse.
Febrary 3, 2018
In two weeks, I will be chairing a session on "Survey Data Collection: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives" at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Advancement in Science in Austin, Texas.
December 29, 2017
Check out the great program for GOR18 in Cologne that my colleagues and I have put together. See also this interview on marktforschung.de with Bella Struminskaya (Conference Program Chair) and me (Conference Program Vice Chair).
November 4, 2017
Next week, I will be speaking on "Participation in passive mobile data collection" at the Institute for Social and Economic Research,
University of Essex.
October 2, 2017
I was recently interviewed by the Austrian magazine emedia about the role of online data collection in polling for the Austrian national election.
September 13, 2017
I have the honor to vice-chair the next General Online Research (GOR) conference in Cologne from February 28 to March 2, 2018. If you do research on online data collection, please see the Call for Papers and consider submitting your work.
July 31, 2017
Together with Silvia Schacht and other colleagues from KIT, we have a new research-in-progress paper published on Web survey gamification. Increasing data quality in web surveys by using game design elements.
July 12, 2017
Next week, I will be attending the 7th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Lisbon, Portugal. I will be giving a presentation titled "In your opinion, in which direction should the answer categories go?" and host a session on "Passive Mobile Data Collection."
April 21, 2017
Together with my colleagues Zhenya Samoilova and Tobias Wolbring, we recently published a paper on "Learning Analytics and Survey Data Integration in Workload Research" in the Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung.
March 21, 2017
I am proud to announce that last week, I was elected to the board of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF).
February 24, 2017
Mingnan Liu and I just got our paper on "Effects of Scale Direction on Response Style of Ordinal Rating Scales" published in the Journal of Official Statistics.
November 25, 2016
On Thursday, December 1, I will speak at the Unipark Community Meeting in Munich about straightlining in web surveys.
November 3, 2016
The paper "Web Versus Mobile Web. An Experimental Study of Device Effects and Self-Selection Effects" - co-authored with Ting Yan - has been published online before print in Social Science Computer Review.
August 1, 2016
I am excited to announce that I have accepted an offer to join the University of Mannheim as an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Methodology in the Department of Sociology.
March 25, 2016
Want to learn more about Data Collection Methods? I will be teaching a course in the Michigan Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques together with Frederick Conrad.
February 16, 2016
On March 4, 2016, I'll present the paper "Web vs. Mobile Web – An Experimental Study of Mode Effects" (co-authored with Ting Yan) at the General Online Research (GOR 16) in Dresden.
January 4, 2016
On January 12, I am invited to speak about "The influence of the direction of response scales on survey responses" at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen.
November 27, 2015
Together with Aigul Mavletova, from the National University Higher School of Economics, Russia, I am organizing a session on Gamification of Surveys at the 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33), September 11-16, 2016, Leicester, UK. Abstracts can be submitted here.
November 23, 2015
I am proud to announce that the paper "A review of issues in gamified surveys" - co-authored with Chan Zhang - has been published online before print in Social Science Computer Review.
November 18, 2015
On December 18, 2015, I'll be talking about "Challenges in the modern data collection context – An experimental study of mode effects between Web and mobile Web" at the Unipark Anwendertag 2015, at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.
October 9, 2015
Energy Policy just published our paper "U.S. consumer attitudes and expectations about energy." This study is based on findings from the first year of the quarterly University of Michigan Energy Survey, a survey that I helped develop together with colleagues from the University of Michigan Energy Institute and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Science.
July 9, 2015
On July 14, Ting Yan (Westat) and I are presenting two papers entitled "Does Satisficing Drive Scale Direction Effects?" and "Impact of Response Scale Direction on Survey Responses in Web and Mobile Web Surveys" at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Reykjavik, Iceland. Here are our abstracts.
May 18, 2015
I am proud to announce that the paper "The impact of weather on mobility and participation in older US adults," based on a survey that I have been working on with former colleagues from the University of Michigan, has been published in the American Journal of Public Health.
March 13, 2015
This summer, I am going to teach two courses at international summer schools. In June and July, I will be teaching an 8 week-course on Data Collection Methods with Fred Conrad at the 68th Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. On August 24 and 25, I will be teaching a short course on Mobile Web Surveys as part of the 4th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology at Cologne, Germany.
February 10, 2015
I am very happy to announce that the paper "The effects of the direction of rating scales on survey responses in a telephone survey" - co-authored with Ting Yan - was published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
January 12, 2015
I am proud to announce that my paper "Why do people participate in Web surveys? Applying survey participation theory to Internet survey data collection" was published in Management Review Quarterly.
November 26, 2014
On December 3, 2014, I am presenting the paper "Applying survey participation theory to Web surveys" at the Internet Survey Methodology Workshop 2014 in Bolzano, Italy. Here is the abstract.
November 17, 2014
On November 22, I am presenting the paper "A Review of Issues in Gamified Survey Design" (in collaboration with Chan Zhang from Fudan University, China) at the 39th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) in Chicago. Here is our abstract.
October 28, 2014
My first personal website is online. Thanks for visiting! If you have comments, find typos, or have suggestions on how to make this page better, please leave me a message here. Thanks, Florian.
On March 4, 2016, I'll present the paper "Web vs. Mobile Web – An Experimental Study of Mode Effects" (co-authored with Ting Yan) at the General Online Research (GOR 16) in Dresden.
January 4, 2016
On January 12, I am invited to speak about "The influence of the direction of response scales on survey responses" at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences at the University of Göttingen.
November 27, 2015
Together with Aigul Mavletova, from the National University Higher School of Economics, Russia, I am organizing a session on Gamification of Surveys at the 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33), September 11-16, 2016, Leicester, UK. Abstracts can be submitted here.
November 23, 2015
I am proud to announce that the paper "A review of issues in gamified surveys" - co-authored with Chan Zhang - has been published online before print in Social Science Computer Review.
November 18, 2015
On December 18, 2015, I'll be talking about "Challenges in the modern data collection context – An experimental study of mode effects between Web and mobile Web" at the Unipark Anwendertag 2015, at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.
October 9, 2015
Energy Policy just published our paper "U.S. consumer attitudes and expectations about energy." This study is based on findings from the first year of the quarterly University of Michigan Energy Survey, a survey that I helped develop together with colleagues from the University of Michigan Energy Institute and the University of Michigan Institute for Social Science.
July 9, 2015
On July 14, Ting Yan (Westat) and I are presenting two papers entitled "Does Satisficing Drive Scale Direction Effects?" and "Impact of Response Scale Direction on Survey Responses in Web and Mobile Web Surveys" at the 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) in Reykjavik, Iceland. Here are our abstracts.
May 18, 2015
I am proud to announce that the paper "The impact of weather on mobility and participation in older US adults," based on a survey that I have been working on with former colleagues from the University of Michigan, has been published in the American Journal of Public Health.
March 13, 2015
This summer, I am going to teach two courses at international summer schools. In June and July, I will be teaching an 8 week-course on Data Collection Methods with Fred Conrad at the 68th Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. On August 24 and 25, I will be teaching a short course on Mobile Web Surveys as part of the 4th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology at Cologne, Germany.
February 10, 2015
I am very happy to announce that the paper "The effects of the direction of rating scales on survey responses in a telephone survey" - co-authored with Ting Yan - was published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
January 12, 2015
I am proud to announce that my paper "Why do people participate in Web surveys? Applying survey participation theory to Internet survey data collection" was published in Management Review Quarterly.
November 26, 2014
On December 3, 2014, I am presenting the paper "Applying survey participation theory to Web surveys" at the Internet Survey Methodology Workshop 2014 in Bolzano, Italy. Here is the abstract.
November 17, 2014
On November 22, I am presenting the paper "A Review of Issues in Gamified Survey Design" (in collaboration with Chan Zhang from Fudan University, China) at the 39th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) in Chicago. Here is our abstract.
October 28, 2014
My first personal website is online. Thanks for visiting! If you have comments, find typos, or have suggestions on how to make this page better, please leave me a message here. Thanks, Florian.
