PDW Web-based data collection methods: Surveys and experiments

Instructors

Dr. Michael Bosnjak is an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim, Department of Psychology II. Before joining the University of Mannheim in 2003, he was a research fellow at ZUMA, the Center for Survey Research and Methodology in Mannheim, working group on computer assisted interviewing and also lecturer at the University of Mannheim. His research interests encompass Internet-based data collection methodology (Web-based surveys and experiments), research methods in psychology, consumer psychology and advertising research with a special emphasis on individual differences.
Dr. Bosnjak is a founding member of the German Online Research Association (DGOF), member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Association for Consumer Research (ACR), European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP), Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP), and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
His recent books include: ´Multivariate Research Strategies´ (edited together with Andre Beauducel, Wolfgang Conrad, Gisela Schönberger, and Dietrich Wagener; 2005, Shaker Publishers), ´(Non)Response bei Web-Befragungen´ (Nonresponse in Web surveys; 2002, Shaker Publishers), ´Dimensions of Internet Science´ (edited together with Ulf-Dietrich Reips, 2001, Pabst Science Publishers), and ´Online Social Sciences´ (edited together with Bernad Batinic and Ulf-Dietrich Reips, 2002, Hogrefe & Huber Publishers). Besides various contributions to edited books, his recent peer-reviewed journal articles have been published in ´Psychology & Marketing´, `Journal of Consumer Behaviour´, `Journal of Computer Mediated Communication´, ´Social Behavior and Personality´, ´Social Science Computer Review´, ´Marketing Research´, and ´ZUMA-Nachrichten´.

PD Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips is an assistant professor in the department of Social and Business Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include methods, tools, and techniques of Internet-based research, in particular Internet-based experimenting, e-/i-learning and -teaching, online privacy and self-disclosure, Internet-based data mining and log file analysis, e-health.

Reips is the first non-North American who was elected President of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP), currently serving. He is a founder and former vice president of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF), and a member of the European Association of Methodology (EAM), the Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP), the Swiss Psychological Association (SGP), the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) and the Software Ergonomics interest group of the Swiss Informatics Society (SI).
In 2003, Reips was peer-nominated as key player in the “social shaping of e-science and e-social science” in a study conducted for the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) at the University of Oxford. As early as 1997, he received a Young Scientist Award from the Methods division of the German Psychological Association for his early work on Internet-based experimenting. The German weekly “Die ZEIT” and IBM awarded him the 4th prize in the first Internet literature contest in 1996 for his “Websonett”. His Web Experimental Psychology Lab has received numerous awards from institutions like "Der Spiegel", "Encyclopedia Britannica", “Planet Science”, "Bild der Wissenschaft", “New Scientist”, “The British Academy” and the "American Psychological Society".
Reips has taught several invited workshops on Internet-based research, including three NSF-sponsored and one APA-sponsored Advanced Training Institutes in the United States, two by the German Society for Online Research, two by the University of Chemnitz, two by the University of Zurich, one by the University of Berne, one by the German Society for Psychology, and one by the European Science Foundation. His many invited keynotes and talks include talks before the British and German Psychological Societies, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and at universities all over the world – most recently Stanford University.
Reips is founding editor of the International Journal of Internet Science http://ijis.net/. His books include ‘Dimensions of Internet Science’ (Reips & Bosnjak, 2001), ‘Online Social Sciences’ (Batinic, Reips, & Bosnjak, 2002), the WWW book ‘Current Internet Science: Trends, Techniques, Results’ (Reips et al., 1999), and the ‘Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology’ (Joinson, McKenna, Postmes, & Reips, forthcoming). He has authored or co-authored a number of articles and chapters on Web experimentation, including methodology (Reips, 1997, 2000b, 2002b, 2002c, 2002d, 2006, in press-b), history of Web experimentation (Musch & Reips, 2000; Reips, 2003b), analysis of drop-outs and CGI versus JavaScript (Reips & Stieger, 2004; Schwarz & Reips, 2001), and managing a Web lab (Reips, 2001b; Reips & Lengler, 2005). He has published in both English and German (e.g., Reips, 1997, 2005a, 2005b; Reips et al., 1999; Reips & Franek, 2004) and serves the important role of bridging new findings between the literatures in these two languages.
Reips has repeatedly been interviewed by and featured in the popular press, for example, “Die ZEIT”, “Focus”, “Der Spiegel”, “Heute Journal”, “Südwestpresse”, “Deutschlandfunk”, “Swiss Radio DRS” and in Science magazines like “Gehirn&Geist”, “Bild der Wissenschaft”, “APA Monitor” and “APS Observer”.
Reips consulted for Web survey companies, market researchers, the airline industry, and in the public sector.