Suggested Technology [Hard Tech] Topics
Tech Showcase, and Focused Technology Sessions
Organizers once again plan to host a Tech Showcase multiple simultaneous booth style presentations to share recent survey technology innovations. Please submit an abstract describing your Tech Showcase idea, including information about any tech or AV requirements. Please note that other technology presentations, panels or round tables will not be presented during the Tech Showcase to allow all interested attendees the flexibility to attend.
If you would like to volunteer to present a workshop or focused technology session, please contact a Tech Program Team Member, Christopher Griggs or Deveny Flanagan to discuss your idea. Focused Technology Sessions typically last about one hour and fifteen minutes and provide an in-depth, hands-on type of training for Tech conference attendees.
- Innovative Data Capture Technologies: Wearable devices, implanted technology and sensors, drones, speech-to-text, apps, web-scraping, APIs, etc.
- Migrating and updating data collection modes [e.g., moving from in-person to web-based]: tech platforms, best practices, obstacles
- Multi-mode survey systems: authoring tools, data collection implementations, streamlining solutions, challenges
- Mobile and web survey administration: optimizing instruments across multiple devices/screen sizes; incorporating multimedia
- The universe of mobile devices: app-development challenges, portability versus performance
- Open source software: data collection applications; use, development and challenges of open source software
- Working examples of platforms and databases used [e.g., REDCap, Lime, Voxco, other survey software]
- Showcase of web survey programs, data entry programs, in-person data collection programs
- Technology to help increase response rates
- DEI: Best Practices in Tech-Related Survey Accessibility, Section 508, WCAG accessibility compliance
- Automated questionnaire development
- International data collection: technological challenges and successes, language support, unique perspectives
- Biospecimen Collection Systems
- New to market or updates to existing survey technologies
- Data visualization and reporting: Tools, Infographics, user-friendly practices, communicating to general audiences
- Dashboards and integrated software to help field operations better monitor complex studies
- Tools and techniques for data management or integration of multiple data sources
- Survey metadata standards and tools, Data Documentation Initiative [DDI]
- Paradata: collection, management, uses, responsive and adaptive design
- Tagged databases for unstructured data; non-relational; NoSQL
- Administrative Data and Social Media Data Management
- Data submission, upload, and pipelines
- New methods for questionnaire and systems testing: integrated testing, automated testing methods, machine-learning, and artificial intelligence
- Call center infrastructure: maintenance and improvements, on-premises versus cloud, centralized location versus remote callers, IVR
- Adopting innovations challenges and advantages related to workforce skills/knowledge, organization size, budget restrictions, etc.
- Mapping technologies for survey and field: mapping services, GPS, GIS, and drones
- Multimedia: use in surveys, quality control, e-learning systems
- Tools for response coding: new technologies and procedures
- Leveraging software as a service [SaaS] and/or platform as a service [PaaS] in survey operations, using hybrid models that incorporate vendors like Twilio
- Programming languages, platforms, and systems
- Environments including cloud computing
- Field technology, securing field data collection
- Vetting and monitoring vendors
- Compliance with security standards
- Future of survey data collection post pandemic
- How much will we go back to how we did things before COVID What changed forever?
- COVID pandemic thorough debriefing of what worked and what did not
- CATI remotely post-pandemic