Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future Workshop, University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research; Fall 2005

该奖项为将于2005年秋季在密歇根大学社会研究所举行的展望未来调查访谈讲习班提供支助。 该讲习班将汇集调查方法和通信技术方面的主要研究人员，以便（1）发展技术考虑的调查响应理论，（2）有助于更好地理解调查响应任务及其与通信技术开发任务的不同之处，以及（3）向调查方法学家介绍可能与数据收集相关的新通信技术。 为了实现这些目标，研讨会将包括以下活动：几位传播科学家将介绍他们领域的理论思想，然后小组将讨论如何将这些思想应用于调查的具体问题。 关于响应任务和测量误差以及人机任务结构和用户性能的演示将在未来技术对调查响应任务可能产生的影响的一般性讨论之前进行。 讲习班还将展示对调查方法具有高度潜在影响的几种尖端和未来通信技术。讲习班将促进对实际和道德问题的跨学科研究和讨论，最终将提高利用通信技术收集的调查数据的质量。 调查方法学家将获得通信理论的更深层次的理解，这将有助于他们评估和部署新兴技术。 通信技术人员在讲习班后应更广泛地了解信息交流任务的性质，并更好地了解调查答复任务所带来的智力挑战。 调查研究界将得到一本由讲习班组织者编辑的出版物。 将邀请来自这两个学科的选定演讲者撰写章节。

This award provides support for a Workshop on Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future, to be held at the University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, in autumn 2005. The workshop will bring together leading researchers in survey methodology and communication technology in order to (1) develop theories of technology-meditated survey response, (2) contribute to a better understanding of the survey response task and how it differs from the tasks for which communication technologies have been developed, and (3) introduce survey methodologists to new communication technologies that might potentially be relevant for data collection. In order to address these objectives, the workshop will include the following activities: Several communication scientists will introduce theoretical ideas from their field and then the group will discuss how to apply these ideas to survey-specific problems. Presentations about the response task and measurement error as well as human-computer task structure and user performance will precede a general discussion of future technology's likely impact on the survey response task. The workshop also will feature demonstrations of several cutting edge and future communication technologies that have high potential impact for survey methodology. The workshop will promote interdisciplinary research and discussion of practical and ethical questions that ultimately will improve the quality of survey data collected with communication technology. Survey methodologists will gain a deeper appreciation of communication theory that will help them evaluate and deploy up-and-coming technology. Communication technologists should emerge from the workshop with a broader appreciation of the nature of information exchange tasks and greater appreciation of the intellectual challenges posed by the survey response task. The survey research community will be served by a published volume, edited by the organizers, which will come out of the workshop. Selected presenters from both disciplines will be invited to contribute chapters.