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办的关于展望未来调查访谈的研讨会提供支持。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)发展技术思考的调查答复理论，(2)促进更好地了解调查答复任务，以及它与开发了通信技术的任务有何不同，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：几位传播学科学家将介绍他们所在领域的理论想法，然后小组将讨论如何将这些想法应用于调查具体问题。在介绍回答任务和测量误差以及人机任务结构和用户表现之前，将对未来技术对调查回答任务可能产生的影响进行一般性讨论。研讨会还将展示几种对调查方法具有很大潜在影响的尖端和未来通信技术。讲习班将促进对实际和伦理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。调查方法学家将对传播理论有更深的理解，这将帮助他们评估和部署新兴技术。讲习班结束后，通信技术专家应对信息交流任务的性质有更广泛的了解，并更多地了解调查答复任务带来的智力挑战。调查研究界将出版一本由组织者编辑的卷，这本书将在研讨会上出版。来自两个学科的选定演讲者将被邀请贡献章节。

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.