GOR - General Online Research

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DGOF co-hosts the German Online Research Conferences (GOR) and supports activities that ...

General Online Research 10
May 26-28, 2010
University of Pforzheim

GOR 10: Brief portrait

The focus of the General Online Research (GOR) is the discussion of basic research, innovative developments, and practical experiences in the field of online research. Online research covers a) all methods, instruments and theories that are dealing with the collection of data via online networks and b) effects of online applications and technologies on all levels of society. That involves mobile communication as well. The annual GOR conference involves research mainly within the social and behavioral sciences. GOR 10 supports the exchange of knowledge not only in an interdisciplinary way, but also between researchers and practitioners as well as between universities and companies.

GOR 10: Exhibition & sponsorship

As usual our exhibition offers you the possibility to present your organization. A new sponsorship concept was designed for GOR 10. Here you may find all information concerning the exhibition and the sponsorship:
Information for exhibitors and sponsors[PDF]
Exhibition zone [PDF]

GOR 10: Latest info

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GOR 10: Call for Papers

Please download the complete CfP here: CfP GOR 10 [PDF]
You can submit your papers via our Conftool.

GOR 09: Presentations available

GOR09 presented findings of research on topics such as statistical bias in online sampling, mobile data collection, online communities and virtual teams, internet & mobile communication in everyday life, and others. You can download the transparencies of last year's GOR via our Conftool. Registration and download are for free, you simply have to create an account. Then go to "Program", choose the session you want to have a look at, click "show downloads" and then you can easily save the file.

GOR 09: Photo-Flashback

Who was there and what happened at GOR 09 in Vienna?
Have a look via Flickr.

GOR 09: "Poster Award"

Two posters have won the traditional GOR “Poster Award”: Monika Taddicken, academic researcher from university Hohenheim, Alice Hohn and Peter Miltner have won the "Poster Award" which was sponsored by YouGovPsychonomics. Their poster "Naïve Information Disclosers or Target Oriented Spys: Different Ways of Using studiVZ" was designed to characterize users of studiVZ according to their activity level, their level of participation and their knowledge in terms of possibilities of data abuse.

Also on the winner’s podium: Andreas Sackl, graduated student at the university of Vienna, with his poster “Three Different Designs of Type Ranking-Questions”. His study affords an objective assessment of the designs and a contribution to the actual usability research in online surveys.

This year there was also an exceptional price awarded by Globalpark. Rik Koekenbier et al. have won the price with their poster “The STI outpatient clinic online - The use and efficacy of a full-scale STI & HIV testing applications online”. The survey explored the usability of a new national testing and prevention site, mantotman.nl.

GOR 09: SPIEGEL-Verlag and YouGovPsychonomics have won the "Best Practice Award"

Anja Manouchehri (SPIEGEL-Verlag) and Henner Förstel (YouGovPsychonomics) have won the prize for the best paper from market research which was awarded for the second time. Their paper "Online Streaming-Ads" pleased the jury as well as the audience. The "Best Practice Award" was sponsored by respondi.

The other five entries which also made the informative and enjoyable sessions possible came from: Stefan Althoff (Lufthansa Technik), André Linden (S.A.Groupe Ferrero, Belgium) and Judith Heibter (Dialego), Dr. Martin Einhorn, Dr. Thomas Klein Reesink and Dr. Michael Löffler (Porsche), Dr. Isabel Paar and Dr. Julia Urbahn (Swisscom) as well as from Henner Förstel (YouGovPsychonomics).

Successful premiere: "Best Thesis Award"

The DGOF is happy to announce that two outstanding scientists have won the “Best Thesis Award”: Dr. Vera Toepoel (CentERdata) has won with her thesis “A Closer Look at Web Questionnaire Design”. The dissertation has a closer look at the growing amount of literature that suggests that the design of the survey instrument (visual cues, sample characteristics, etc.) plays an important role in the success of a survey.

J. Roselyn Lee (Stanford University, USA) has won with her thesis “A Threat on the Net: Stereotype Threat in Avatar-Represented Online Groups”. The dissertation investigates how psychological threats associated with social categories such as gender and race play out in computer-mediated group settings.