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Online Surveys 2.0
ASCFunky Data: working with unconventional data in surveys
and research
25 September 2012, Imperial College, London, UK
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Introduction
o Netherlands and Lithuaniao Knowledge Exchangeo Business Intelligenceo E-Learning
o Across EUo UK: JISC, UKCES, Connexions
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(online) Software Systems
o Many were based on existing offline systems
o Functionality copied, not redesignedo Misplaced analogieso Slow innovation
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Examples
E-mail : POP, CC, Inbox, Outbox, Address book
E-books: Bookmarks, Margin notes, ToC
E-learning and Assessment: PDF, text and images, Multiple choice
Other : File System, Desktop, Saving of documents
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Online Surveys Today
o A lot of multiple choice questions
o Score matrices (on 5 or 10 point scales)
o Mostly written introductions
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Online Surveys Today
o With
� Rules
� Automatic data entry
o Without
� Breaking the format
� Handwriting
� Drawing
Online versions of paper survey forms
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But there is more...
Being in an online environment allows us
to use online content
Being in a dynamic environment allows us
to use dynamic features
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Online content
o Multimedia: Pictures, video, audio
o Uploaded or embedded
o Wherever we need it:
� to introduce a subject or question;
� as answer options;
� as answers from users.
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Adaptive Surveys
o Dependent questions
o Dependent sections
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Drawing conclusions
o Use any question result to filter survey results
o Generate graphs on the fly (bar, pie, stacked,
bubble)
o Research free text using tagclouds
o Thumbnail overviews of uploaded pictures
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Drawing conclusions
o Use any question result to filter survey results
o Generate graphs on the fly (bar, pie, stacked,
bubble)
o Research free text using tagclouds
o Thumbnail overviews of uploaded pictures
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Drawing conclusions
o Use any question result to filter survey results
o Generate graphs on the fly (bar, pie, stacked,
bubble)
o Research free text using tagclouds
o Thumbnail overviews of uploaded pictures
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Near future
o Create audiomaps from (uploaded) videos
resulting in videowalls with themed clips
o Analyse positives and negatives in free text
o Integration of public datasources
o Contextual content
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October 2012
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