Keynote speakers

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

Mick Couper University of Michigan, USA “Visual design in online surveys: Learnings for the mobile world” About Mick Couper Mick P. Couper, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. His research interests include survey nonresponse and the use of technology in survey data collection. (non response)

Nicola Döring Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany “Psychological Aspects of Interviewing by Cellular Telephone” About Nicola Döring Nicola Döring, Ph.D., is a full Professor of Media Design and Media Psychology at the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. Her current research interests include: Psychological dimensions of online and mobile communication, learning and teaching with new media, research and evaluation methods.

Guy Rolfe Mobile Knowledge Leader, Kantar “The Future for Mobile Research: what will the landscape look like in two years time?” About Guy Rolfe Guy Rolfe is the Mobile Knowledge Leader for Kantar, the Insight and Consultancy arm of WPP. He has overseen the development of Kantar systems to enable mobile research and continues to spearhead the exploration of emerging technologies and techniques. He also facilitates group-wide collaboration and fosters collective learning, acting as both mobile evangelist and knowledge hub; he works closely with researchers to help them fully explore and exploit the product potential. Guy has been in market research for more than 13 years and started using mobile phones to collect data some eight years ago.

Ingvar Tjøstheim Norwegian Computing Center, Norway “Capturing situations and context in mobile surveys. Reducing the recall and the out of context problem.” About Ingvar Tjøstheim Ingvar Tjostheim is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center. He specializes in mobile technology and is currently working on mobile applications with semantic web technologies. He has a special interest in market research. His work has been published at both industry conferences such as ESOMAR as well as publishers in the academic world.

Richard Windle Global Research Director for Ipsos MediaCT worldwide “What does the decline of fixed line telephone mean for market research and the mobile in research?” About Richard Windle Richard has more than 25 years experience covering most areas of market research, but specialising in research for clients in the media sector, specifically audience measurement. His expertise is in sampling and research methods. He has tended to specialise in the design and management of large and continuous research projects. In his current role his time is divided between audience measurement projects in the UK and international initiatives. In the UK he is closely involved with the RAJAR radio audience measurement survey the National Readership Survey and the Postar out of home audience measurement project. In 2006 he authored the White Paper ‘Audience Measurement for Screen Media’ (available from www.thescreen.org) As part of his international role he has worked with Ipsos companies in most parts of the world, either as an adviser on best practice for local audience measurement projects or in the development of new measurement initiatives, such as the use of passive metering for outdoor and broadcast media. In addition to his current responsibilities he was the technical consultant to the Outdoor Advertising Association in the UK from 1988-1990 and European Research Director for MMXI Europe from 1999-2000, when he was responsible for setting up internet audience measurement panels across Western Europe. He has published reports in areas as diverse as survey non-response, student finance, audience appreciation and the market for digital radio.

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Programme Committee

Michael Bosnjak (Head of Program Committee) Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy About Michael Bosnjak Michael Bosnjak, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (South Tyrol, Italy). His research interests include: Research synthesis methods, marketing research methods, Internet-based data collection methodology, and consumer psychology with a special emphasis on individual differences and self-concept-related/symbolic consumption.

Mick Couper University of Michigan, USA About Mick Couper Mick P. Couper, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. His research interests include survey nonresponse and the use of technology in survey data collection. (non response)

Nicola Döring Technical University Illmenau, Germany About Nicola Döring Nicola Döring, Ph.D., is a full Professor of Media Design and Media Psychology at the Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany. Her current research interests include: Psychological dimensions of online and mobile communication, learning and teaching with new media, research and evaluation methods.

Marek Fuchs Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany About Marek Fuchs Marek Fuchs, PhD., is an associate professor for research methods at the department of social sciences, University of Kassel, Germany. He received his PhD in 1993 and conducted post-doctoral work at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA. His research interests include — among other topics — methodological aspects of Web surveys and the use of mobile phones in survey research.

Lars Kaczmirek GESIS-ZUMA Mannheim, Germany About Lars Kaczmirek ...

Bozidar Klicek University of Zagreb, Croatia About Bozidar Klicek Bozidar Klicek is a full professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varazdin. His main field of interest is the application of intelligent and multimedia systems, particularly in the field of complex systems management. He is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE Computer, IFITT, and an associate of the Croatian Academy of Engineering. His research centers on the endeavor to obtain exact models of social, economical, technical and ecological systems through development of new methods of knowledge acquisition, such as multi-modal surveys, as well as various techniques of data mining, e.g. fuzzy rules and neural networks.

Katja Lozar Manfreda University of Ljubljana, Slovenia About Katja Lozar Manfreda Katja Lozar Manfreda, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her current research interests include survey methodology, new technologies in social science data collection and web survey methodology.

Ingvar Tjøstheim Norwegian Computing Center, Norway About Ingvar Tjøstheim Ingvar Tjostheim is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center. He specializes in mobile technology and is currently working on mobile applications with semantic web technologies. He has a special interest in market research. His work has been published at both industry conferences such as ESOMAR as well as publishers in the academic world.

Vasja Vehovar University of Ljubljana, Slovenia About Vasja Vehovar Vasja Vehovar, Ph.D., is a Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. The main areas of his research interest include the problem of survey non-response, web survey methodology and social aspects of the Internet and other ICTs. He is the principal investigator of the internationally recognized project WebSM - Web Survey Methodology portal.

 

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