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Public Keynote by Prof. Dr. Anja Göritz (University of Freiburg)

As part of our 4th Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis, Prof. Dr. Anja Göritz (University of Freiburg) will give a public keynote (“Collecting Data in Online Panels and Crowdsources”) at the University of Konstanz: It will take place Wednesday, September 15th 2021,5:00 PM in the A 701 room. Abstract:

Does the way of conducting a web-based study pay off in terms of obtaining more and/or better responses by study participants? In the talk, I examine the effects of offering different types of rewards to potential respondents on data quantity and quality. The rewards I look at are study results, donations to charity, bank transfers, loyalty points and payments via PayPal. Moreover, I talk about effects due to the season of year in which a study is conducted, the weekday when sending out invitations to a study to potential participants, the use of reminders and the length of a study. Finally, the talk compares online panels and crowdsources in terms of obtaining more and/or better responses when used as a pool to recruit respondents for web-based studies.


iScience article among the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2017

The iScience article “Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS Android) differ only little in personality” by Götz, Stieger, & Reips (2017) is among the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2017 🎉 Check it out here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176921 #researchgoals


WEXTOR 2021 released

WEXTOR 2021 is here! 🚀😍🎉 Discover the most modern version of our web experiment generator – now also 100% optimized for smartphones and tablets💪: https://wextor.eu


4th Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis

 

 

iScience research group at the Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, invites you to take part in our 4th Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis September 13-16, 2021 @ University of Konstanz. Please apply here.

Instructors (bios see below): Michael Birnbaum * Ulf-Dietrich Reips * Yury Shevchenko

Topics:

  • Basic and advanced concepts of Internet-based research
  • Experimental design 
  • Methods and best practices
  • Online tools & standards
  • Visualization
  • Apps for research
  • Theory and model testing
  • Mixed models
  • Analysis of Internet data
  • Avoiding frequently made errors
  • Practical applications
  • Social Media
  • Big Data
  • iScience
  • Mobile experience sampling
  • Open science

 

 

Take a look at the program of the previous 3rd Summer School in 2019.

The program for the 4th Summer School in 2021 is available here.

 

Summer School begins with Registration Monday 13th of September, 11:00

There will be an Early Arrival social gathering on Sunday evening. Please join our Facebook group for updates.

Cost: 180.- Euro (Early bird), 200.- from August 1, includes lunches and catering during the summer school (partial fee waiver for UNIKN Psychology students available)

3 ECTS for those who participate in and pass the optional exam

Social Programme in and around Lake Constance.

Apply until August 15 (for Early bird fee before August 1) by filling this form.

Payment of the fee (180.-/200.- Euro) needs to simultaneously go to:

Recipient: Universitaetskasse Konstanz

Bank: BW-Bank Konstanz

IBAN: DE92 6005 0101 7486 5012 74

BIC: SOLA DE ST

Purpose (very important to include in bank transfer!): Summer School Data Collection

Instructors:

Michael Birnbaum received his PhD from UCLA in 1972. He taught at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign from 1974-1986, where he was head of the Division of Quantitative and Industrial/Organizational Psychology and promoted to Full Professor in 1982. He came to California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 1986 on leave from University of Illinois and made the position at CSUF permanent in 1988. He is founder and served as director or co-director of the Decision Research Center at CSUF for more than 30 years.  He was named Outstanding Professor for CSUF in 1991-92 and won the L. Donald Shields Excellence in Scholarship and Creativity Award in 2014.  He has published more than 140 scientific articles and three books.  He held grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Psychological Association to organize and provide advanced training institutes in Web-based research. He served as president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2002-2003, president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-2009, and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology, 2009-2010.

Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a Full Professor at the University of Konstanz. He received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on Internet-based research methodologies, the psychology of the Internet, measurement, experimental psychology, cognition of causality, personality, privacy, Social Media, mobile experience sampling, and Big Data methods. In 1994, he founded the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the World Wide Web. Ulf was a founder of the German Society for Online Research, was elected the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and he is the founding editor of the free open access journal International Journal of Internet Science (https://www.ijis.net/). He has published more than 165 scientific articles and six books, see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulf-Dietrich-Reips/research and https://www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/publications.html. Ulf and his team (https://iscience.uni-konstanz.de/) develop and provide free Web tools for researchers, teachers, students, and the public. They received numerous awards for their Web applications (available from the iScience Server at (https://www.iscience.eu/) and methodological work serving the research community.

Yury Shevchenko is a post-doc in the iScience group at the University of Konstanz. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a Diploma in Psychology. After a research internship in Basel, Switzerland, he did his PhD at the Chair of Experimental Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany, and also worked as a research associate at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim. His interests lie in the intersection of psychology and computer science with a focus on methods and programming. He has developed Open Lab, a web platform for conducting online experiments, and Samply, a mobile application and a web platform for experience-sampling studies.