/ɑːˈskjʊə.ri.əs/, from ask and curious
Askurious is a web platform for social science research: plan a study, build the questionnaire, take it to the field, check the data quality and analyse the results, all in one place. It is developed by the Chair of Communication Science, RWTH Aachen University, for research and teaching.
| Repository | What it is |
|---|---|
| askurious | The platform: questionnaire editor, fieldwork, live votes, interviews, analysis and export. |
| askurious-diary-android | The Android app for diary studies (experience sampling): prompts at fixed or random times, offline answers. |
- Platform: askurious.de
- All question types in action: ask.askurious.de/s/introduction
- Plan: study plan with hypotheses, power analysis, validated scales, pre-registration snapshot.
- Build: more than forty element types, flow logic, quotas, twelve survey languages, accessibility after BITV 2.0 / WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Field: links and QR codes, panel providers, data-quality checks, live votes, interviews, diary studies, paper questionnaires.
- Analyse and share: results in APA style, choice models, method section, export for the common statistics programs and R, open data for Zenodo and Coscine.
- Data protection: deletion codes, retention periods, and a privacy concept built from the code.
Askurious is developed and run by the Chair of Communication Science of RWTH Aachen University for research and teaching. Authors: Philipp Brauner and Ralf Philipsen. RWTH Aachen University holds the rights in the code. The code is open source under the European Union Public Licence 1.2 (EUPL-1.2); the names and logos of Askurious and POLLtergeist are not part of the licence.
Questions and ideas are welcome as issues in the repository of the part concerned.
Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationswissenschaft, RWTH Aachen University
Campus-Boulevard 57
52074 Aachen, Germany
brauner@comm.rwth-aachen.de · www.comm.rwth-aachen.de
