Research Technology Based on Open-Ended Questions: The Key Modules, Contribution of Software Discant
This paper is of interdisciplinary matter: to explore subjective social areas and to develop digital instruments for them. We have two final objectives: To offer a new effective research technology based on a system of open-ended questions for complicate sociological area; To offer its key module –...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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FRUCT
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT |
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| Online Access: | https://fruct.org/publications/acm25/files/Sag.pdf
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| Summary: | This paper is of interdisciplinary matter: to explore subjective social areas and to develop digital instruments for them. We have two final objectives: To offer a new effective research technology based on a system of open-ended questions for complicate sociological area; To offer its key module – a computer systems DISCANT and VEGA for storing empirical data and analyzing them by effective methods of machine examination of texts. We present a special type of research, namely, full-scale Reflective Integrated Research Technology based on open-ended questions (RIRT).Our mission and tasks are to show the effectiveness of the developed resources, their high social, cognitive, technological and humanistic features to pay attention to the lack of such resources in the investigative field of sociology, to identify the causes of this poor situation and, creating an attractive format, make proper efforts to change the cognitive situation. Finally, to transform our developments into open public resources. Our developments at the moment contain the following units: Concept of research technology; multiplicity of open-ended question types; A mass of reflective interrogation techniques relating to many areas of personal and public life; A mass of implemented projects at home and abroad supported by Russian and foreign funds; The format of group surveys ensuring the anonymity of participants, the reliability of the results; Computer systems DISCANT and VEGA for the systematic support of reflective research; System for creating classifiers and classification of text arrays; Comparison of the basic modules of the three main types of survey research.. We would like to try on the possibilities of creating an information product for integrated description of our multidimensional, multicomponent technology, similar to what we met in the development of Dmitry Korzun: Semantic infrastructure of a smart museum: toward making cultural heritage knowledge [1]. As for our complicated situation it is related to corresponding presentation of research instruments, research methods and research results and, much important, in a number of global social areas. |
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| ISSN: | 2305-7254 2343-0737 |