Publications

It is possible to conduct experience sampling method studies with a nationally representative survey panel. It is also possible to use an app for this purpose. App respondents can be used to represent all smartphone users both demographically and in their substantive survey responses. Apps also offer innovative features such as barcode scanning, passive data […]

The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of conducting experience sampling method surveys with a nationally representative survey panel, as well as the costs and benefits of doing so using an app vs. web-based data collection. The first research question was whether panelists would respond to an experience sampling method study given […]

Sizeable majorities of both the app and web groups agreed to take part in the study, and majorities of those who signed up actually participated in one or more of the individual surveys. The web group outperformed the app group in terms of cooperation rates and responses rates, both overall and to each of the […]

This signal-contingent experience sampling method study was conducted using the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel, a probability-based, nationally representative panel of US adults. Panelists were recruited from the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, a large (n=10,013) national landline and cell phone random digit dial (RDD) survey conducted January 23rd to March 16th, 2014 […]

The research literature on using mobile apps for survey research is sparse. The majority of research has not been published but was rather publicly presented at conferences such as the American Association for Public Opinion Research’s annual meeting. The bulk of the studies were conducted by the Nielsen Company, primarily in regard to their TV […]