Topic view: Conference reports
Mobile research growing up fast
By Tim Macer on 20th Apr 2011.
Chairing the second day of the 3rd Mobile Research Conference I set myself the task of presenting a round-up of the new ideas at the end of the day. Here’s a write-up of what I verbalised at the close of a fascinating day that shows that mobile research is now growing up up fast
Keywords: mobile research
The curse of seeing everything
By Tim Macer on 26th Mar 2010.
From Research 2010, MRS, London, 23-24 March 2010 A major issue with post-modern research methods, or ‘new MR’ as it is sometimes called - a recurrent theme at the Research 2010 conference – is the amount of data and consequent effort that goes into extracting any meaning from this data. This came home in the [...]
Keywords: Blogging, neurometrics, qualitative
Mobile fallout – to be ignored at your peril
By Tim Macer on 15th Mar 2010.
From the Mobile Research Conference 2010, Globalpark, London, 8-9 March 2010. Mobile research, as a method, may still be in its infancy, but researchers already need to be aware of the fallout from the growing phenomenon of mobile communications, both in telephony and in data communications and the mobile web. The effects cannot be avoided [...]
Keywords: mobile interviewing, sampling, trends
Getting a better response online (and offline)
By Tim Macer on 10th Sep 2009.
The second day of the IWIS09 Internet Workshop in South Korea focused on practical measures and finding in improving response in online surveys (in addtion to those already reported here and
Keywords: national statistics, online research
Korean insights into MR
By Tim Macer on 10th Sep 2009.
More insights into Korean market and social research emerged in day two of the Internet Survey Workshop in Korea.
Keywords: national statistics, online research, panels
Online is the future for national statistics
By Tim Macer on 9th Sep 2009.
I’m at the First International Workshop on Internet Survey at Daejeon, Korea. It is hosted by Statistics Korea (or Kostat) which has put together an impressive roster of presentations on leading edge thinking in using online research for public policy research and other nationally representative surveys: eighteen speakers, fourteen from around the world, and a [...]
Keywords: national statistics, online research
Has the Insight Show overheated?
By Tim Macer on 3rd Jul 2009.
Technology was an aspect of this week’s Insight Show that the exhibition’s promoters were majoring on, yet on the ground the number of technology providers exhibiting at the show was thinner than ever. The day I was there seemed to be the one when competing sales teams converged on the orange carpet between their stands to chat about who was up to what and complain about the heat.
Keywords: automation, Insight Show, online qual, online research, panels, PowerPoint, qualitative, Research 2.0
Do research communities provide a new way to engage with customers for research – or are they just panels on steroids?
By Tim Macer on 5th Jun 2009.
Communities do seem to be generating a buzz this year. There is a discussion about whether communities should have an incentive or not, and surprisingly, many of the client-run communities run very effectively with no incentive,
Keywords: CASRO, communities, online research, panels
CASRO Tech 09 and a field of poppies
By Tim Macer on 1st Jun 2009.
t was great to be at CASRO’s annual Technology conference again. They have changed the format since I was last there in 2005 and instead of a roster of invited speakers, they now follow the call-for-presentations model, which has upped the standard considerably as the organising committee has been able to pick from the best.
Keywords: data protection, error, self-regulation, semantic web, Standards, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0
Data integration hurdles
By Sheila Wilson on 24th Feb 2009.
In his conference prestentation today, Tim spoke of the technical and organizational barriers that often need to be overcome when integrating survey research data with data from other sources.
Keywords: attitudinal data, behavioral data, corporate databases, data warehouses, integrating data, transactional data
Snapshot of mobile interviewing
By Sheila Wilson on 16th Feb 2009.
Tim was the opening keynote speaker at today’s Mobile Research Conference
Keywords: Globalpark, mobile interviewing
Could new technology solve the crisis of confidence in online research?
By Tim Macer on 29th Sep 2007.
Conference report from ASC 2007 Southampton Internet research is facing a credibility crisis that technology alone cannot solve – though skilful application of the emergent technologies and new methodological understanding presented at ASC 2007 may offer the best hope in curing its current malaise. This was a key message cutting across the forty-some papers presented [...]