Comparing Survey Results Obtained via Mobile Devices and Computers: An Experiment With a Mobile Web Survey on a Heterogeneous Group of Mobile Devices Versus a Computer-Assisted Web Survey

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 482-504

  de Bruijne, Marika ^a   Wijnant, Arnaud ^a  

^a CentERdata   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

mobile devices; mobile web survey; smartphones; survey design; tablet PCs; touch user interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879534162     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439313483976     Document Type: Article

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