Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Refusals to complete the questionnaires, “fatigue of respondents” against the background of high activity of various research companies are the current problems of the traditional data collection. On the example of the online survey, this article examines the potential of gamification of survey tools as a possible option to overcome this problem. The study is based on a comparison of gamified and traditional version of the questionnaire. Cognitive interview was the primary method for evaluating the impact of using gamification. The hypothesis of the study implied that a gamified questionnaire was more understandable for respondents in comparison with its standard variant. There were two indicators serving as the criteria for testing the hypothesis: the first one was navigation of the form and coherence of the narrative, the second one was the wording of questions. The standard version of the questionnaire based on the semantic grouping of questions. The original standardized questionnaire was devoted to the examination of the question “What do Russians dream about?” Four types of narrative were proposed as a conceptual framework for gamification of this questionnaire: a narrative quest “the room”, the speaker is connecting the semantic structure for the rest of gamified narratives, narratives of the “ideal state”, “drive the train” and “truth serum”. Each block of questions in a gamified questionnaire was semantically linked with the narrative, creating a complex structure of the questionnaire. The content of standardized questions remained the same. The results of the analysis of the cognitive interview resulted in the following benefits and limitations of gamification: a gamified structure of the questionnaire should be built from simple to complex, gamification through the narrative is effective for structuring questionnaire, and the questionnaire is more efficient in creating your own one (according to the research goal).
Source: Inter
Language: Russian
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2946512251