Text message communication is nearly universal—at least in many places—but its use for collecting survey data is still emerging. Respondents in text message interviews have been shown to satisfice less than respondents in telephone (voice) interviews, and when given a...
GPS technology can be used to track activity and location, and determine activity patterns between different populations. Those with lower educational attainment levels and socieoeconomic statuses were found to spend more time outside of their residential areas,...
We asked members of the Understanding Society Innovation Panel about their willingness to participate in various data collection tasks on their mobile devices. We find that stated willingness varies considerably depending on the type of activity involved: respondents...
In this paper, we compare the quality of expenditure data collected from a mobile receipt scanning app in the Understanding Society Innovation Panel with benchmark data from the Living Costs and Food Survey, the national budget survey in the United Kingdom. The...
Offering participants in mobile app studies personalized feedback on the data they report seems an obvious thing to do: Participants might expect an app to provide feedback given their experiences with commercial apps, feedback might motivate more people to...
