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AUTOMATICALLY BETTER? THE IMPACT OF AUTOMATION ON THE SURVEY PROCESS
26 April 2000 - Imperial College London
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
The next ASC one-day meeting will be held on Wednesday 26 April 2000 at our
usual venue - Imperial College, London with the focus on developments in recent
years which have reduced the amount of manual input into the survey process.
There will also be an opportunity to debate the costs and benefits of this rush
towards automation and to anticipate what further developments might be in the
pipeline.
The conference programme is expected to include the following contributions:
* `Is Automatically Better?' Laurance Gerrard, The Research Business
International
* `Delivering Results' Phil Hearn, Marketing Research Data Consultants
* `Using Clues and Forming Glues: Context Tokens in Survey Design' Stephen
Jenkins, Mercator and Tony Solomonides, University of West England.
* `A Software Suite and Extended Mark up Language for Intelligent
Questionnaires' Joanne Lamb and Joan Fairgrieve, Centre for Educational
Sociology, University of Edinburgh
* `Make the Force Go With You' Sally Gale, Office for National Statistics
* `Automated Study Documentation: The Web and XML' Neil Walker, MRC
Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge
* `I know how to run faster but how can I think faster?' Ray Poynter,
Managing Director Europe, Intelli Quest
This conference will interest survey directors, managers, researchers and users
who need to be aware of the impact of these changes on the survey process and
outputs.
Further details of the programme and registration will appear on the ASC's WWW
site shortly - http://www.asc.org.uk
As usual, there will be an exhibition associated with the conference, and
potential exhibitors, or anyone wanting more general information, should contact
Diana Elder at PO Box 60, Chesham, Bucks, HP5 3QH or e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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