An Experimental Comparison of AI-Enabled Semi-Structured Interviews and Fixed Surveys: Response Patterns, Quality and Representation.

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Brief Overview

We conduct a randomized experiment with five survey designs, three of which utilize state-of-the-art AI-enabled semi-structured interviewing, to determine comparative response quality, coding quality, rolloff patterns, satisfaction, and attention.

Authors

• Ryan P. Kennedy, Ohio State University-Main Campus

• Amanda Austin, University of Houston

• Edward Hohe, The Ohio State University

• Laura M Moses, The Ohio State University

• Leib Litman, Cloud Research