Being There with a Bot

Being There with a Bot

Finding new ways to engage with voice and chat This article was published in Research World. Market research methods have, by and large, done an excellent job of reflecting societal norms in terms of communication and interaction. Face-to-face intercepts gradually...
No barrier to participation in chat vs online surveys

No barrier to participation in chat vs online surveys

In our Research Society conference paper ‘Robot Wars’, we set out to measure how people respond to identical research questions asked via chat, voice and a traditional online survey. We were interested to see how members of Lewers online community, PurplePatch, are...

Sentiment detection in survey analysis

Sentiment detection is one of the simplest, most accurate and powerful AI tools available to researchers, in particular to our ability to conduct qualitative research at scale. We use sentiment in three ways: To look at the sentiment of an entire comment –...