Events

Event Title	Combining Surveys with Passive Data Collection: Collecting smartphone sensor data as part of a longitudinal panel study
Location	Davis Library Rm 219 and Online
Sponsor	H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time	05/02/2023 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Cutoff Date	05/01/2023 Must register before this date

For more information, contact the event administrator: Jill Stevens jill_stevens@unc.edu

Event Presenters

Name	Title
Florian Keusch		Professor of Social Data Science and Methodology in the Sociology Department, School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim. Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland. Faculty Board Member of the International Program in Survey and Data Science (IPSDS). Associate Editor of Survey Research Methods.

As smartphone penetration continues to increase around the world, survey researchers are exploring novel ways to leverage the capabilities of smartphones for data collection that go beyond self-reports.
Researchers can now administer survey questions on the smartphone and, at the same time, ask respondents to perform tasks such as taking pictures, recording audio and video, and granting access to data from built-in sensors and log files Combining these different sources of data promises to produce information not available from either type of measurement alone.
In this talk, the presenter will discuss the benefits and challenges of collecting data passively with smartphones within an existing longitudinal survey. The lessons learned in this study provide design suggestions for other large scale surveys planning to integrate passive mobile measurement into the data collection process.