GOR 26 - Annual Conference & Workshops
Annual Conference- Rheinische Hochschule Cologne, Campus Vogelsanger Straße
26 - 27 February 2026
GOR Workshops - GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Cologne
25 February 2026
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: RH, Seminar 01 |
| Date: Thursday, 26/Feb/2026 | |
| 10:15am - 11:15am |
2.1: AI and survey research Location: RH, Seminar 01 Talking to Results: LLM-enabled Discussions of Quantitative Survey Findings 1: Verian, Germany; 2: Inspirient; 3: Bertelsmann Stiftung Testing the Performance and Bias of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic Survey Data Utrecht University, Netherlands, The Transcribing and coding voice answers obtained in web surveys: comparing three leading automatic speech recognition tools 1: RECSM-UPF, Spain; 2: DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover; 3: University of Michigan |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
3.1: App-based data collection Location: RH, Seminar 01 Why Are People Unwilling to Participate in Smartphone App Data Collection? Results from Qualitative In-Depth Interviews University of Mannheim, Germany Ready, set, go! Data collection for the household budget survey with an app Statistics Netherlands, Netherlands, The The effect of control over data collection on willingness to participate in app-based data collection Utrecht University, Department of Methodology and Statistics |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
5.1: Data quality and measurement error I Location: RH, Seminar 01 I misbehave, but only once in a while: how face-saving strategies can reduce socially desirable responding in online survey research University of Groningen, Netherlands, The ‘And Yet…’: The Effectiveness of Probing Questions in Reducing Item Nonresponse to Financial Questions NRU HSE, Russian Federation Having ACES Up Your Sleeve: Developing and Validating Attention Checks Embedded Subtly (ACES) to Improve Identification of Inattentive Participants Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
6.1: Data quality and measurement error II Location: RH, Seminar 01 Assessing Trends in Turnout Bias in Social Science Surveys: Evidence from the European Social Survey and German Survey Programs 1: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany; 2: University of Mannheim Validating a 6-Item Scale for Measuring Perceived Response Burden in Establishment Surveys 1: IAB, Germany; 2: IAB, Germany; University of Munich, Germany The effects of panel conditioning on response behavior across different cohorts: Bias in the Core Discussion Network University of Mannheim, Germany |
| 5:15pm - 6:30pm |
DGOF: Member Meeting Location: RH, Seminar 01 |
| Date: Friday, 27/Feb/2026 | |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
7.1: AI and qualitative research Location: RH, Seminar 01 AI-Conducted User Research: From Weeks to Hours Through Autonomous Interviewing Userflix, Germany Augmenting Qualitative Research with AI: Topic Modeling with Agentic RAG 1: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 2: Deutsche Hochschule, Germany; 3: Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore Reinventing Online Qualitative Methods: Lessons from an AI-Assisted Study on Pathways Out of Loneliness 1: Hochschule Trier, Germany; 2: Bilendi&respondi |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
10.1: Smart surveys and interactive survey features Location: RH, Seminar 01 Providing extra incentives for open voice answers in web surveys 1: DZHW; Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 2: RECSM-University Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 3: University of Michigan, USA Alexa, Start the Interview! Respondents’ Experience with Smart Speaker Interviews Compared to Web Surveys 1: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; 2: Former Postdoc at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Do respondents show higher activity and engagement in app-based diaries compared to web-based diaries? A case study using Statistics Netherlands’ Household Budget Diary. 1: Utrecht University, The Netherlands; 2: Statistics Netherlands |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
11.1: Sampling and weighting Location: RH, Seminar 01 Enhancing data accuracy in KnowledgePanel Europe: Leveraging different weighting techniques and adjustment variables for optimal outcomes Ipsos Do sampling and stratification strategies matter for treatment effects of political and media experiments administered online? The SOM Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Exploring the representativeness of web-only surveys of the general population 1: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex; 2: Department of Social Statistics and Demography, University of Southampton |
| 3:15pm - 4:15pm |
12.1: Survey recruitment Location: RH, Seminar 01 How Recruitment Channels Shape Data Quality: Evidence From A Multi-Source Panel GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Looks great, responds poorly: lessons from ten years of invitation letter experiments Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands Using Text Messages (SMS) for Representative Sample Recruitment in Online Research Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |