Duration of the workshop

2,5

Target groups

Social Scientisits including, but not limited to, Media & Communication Scientists, Psychologists, Quantitative Sociologists, and Political Scientists

Is the workshop geared at an exclusively German or an international audience?

International Audience

Workshop language

English

Description of the content of the workshop

Smartphones are a ubiquitous technology that most people have in their pockets almost
everywhere and anywhere. This makes them an excellent choice to collect surveys- and
other data such as photos, screenshots, app usage, or sensor data from research
participants in everyday life. They are especially suitable for intensive longitudinal designs
where constructs are typically measured multiple times per day or per week to investigate
fine-grained temporal patterns or changes in behavior, opinions, or attitudes. This workshop
will introduce the design of intensive longitudinal studies both on a conceptual level and in
practice by using the GESIS AppKit, our new infrastructure for easily creating smartphone
data collections for Android and iOS. Participants will interactively create and try out their
own data collection studies, and learn how to preprocess, analyze, and visualize the
resulting data.

Goals of the workshop

1. Introduction to intensive longitudinal data collections, how to design these studies,
and what differentiates them from “classic” longitudinal data collections with fewer
repeated measures. [45 mins – Lukas Rahnke-Otto / Mareike Wieland]
2. Create your own free GESIS AppKit account, learn how to create your own data
collections using intensive longitudinal surveys, photo and image uploads, how to
link your data to other survey tools, how to invite people to your study, and how to
schedule intensive longitudinal data collections. [45 mins – Lukas Rahnke-Otto /
Mareike Wieland]
3. Learn how to export your data from the AppKit website and how to preprocess and
visualize it using R. [45 mins – Julian Kohne / Maximilian Haag]

Necessary prior knowledge of participants

Basic Knowledge of R and Rsutdio is recommended (changing working directories, importing data, using ggplot2).

Literature that participants need to read prior to participation

none

Recommended additional literature

https://gesiscss.github.io/AppKit_Documentation/ [not required]

Information about the instructor

https://www.gesis.org/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitendenverzeichnis/person/Julian.Kohne
https://www.gesis.org/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitendenverzeichnis/person/Mareike.Wieland
https://www.gesis.org/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitendenverzeichnis/person/Maximilian.Haag
https://www.gesis.org/institut/ueber-uns/mitarbeitendenverzeichnis/person/Lukas.Otto

Maximum number of participants

40

Will participants need to bring their own devices in order to be able to access the Internet? Will they need to bring anything else to the workshop?

1) Laptop with R and RStudio installed
2) Smartphone running running at least either Android 16 or iOS 11
3) All participants will need access to the internet on both Laptop and Smartphone