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Radio watch

The idea of creating an electronic device for measuring the audience of radio dates back at Infratest Burke into the late 1970’s, but was turned down because of technical problems. With the enormous technological progress in the computer...

Catalogue: 2nd Radio Research Symposium

Authors: Wolfgang Werres, Reinhold Horstmann

June 15, 1997

The poor, the bad and the ugly

There is only one answer: we have to search for new tools! Our search will be successful if we follow the new trends. For the pharmaceutical industry, we can identify seven main trends: o global harmonization, o block-buster phenomena, i. e. the...

Catalogue: EphMRA/ESOMAR Conference 1997: Sharpening Tools For The Future

Author: Dieter Korczak

Company: GP Forschungsgruppe

June 15, 1997

New attributions of the Latin American market researcher in face of globalization

This study is aimed to investigate if the market globalization has brought changes to the market research activities in Latin America and in the attributions of market researchers, whether they are working in -suppliers- the institutes or in...

Catalogue: Latin America 1997: The Dynamics Of Change In Latin America

Author: Silvio Pires de Paula

May 1, 1997

Using Internet tools

This paper identifies how the tools and languages behind the World Wide Web can be used to standardise the reporting and dissemination process. In particular, the paper shows how one set of standards can be used for live, electronic, and distributed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Ray Poynter

January 1, 1997

The shift to the era of the wired consumer

The lines are blurring among four huge industries: computers, consumer electronics, communications and entertainment. The relentless spread of digital electronics-converting information, sound, video, text, and images into a single stream of ones and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Edward O'Hara

January 1, 1997

The next millennium

This paper reviews the impact of new technologies in the research process over the past five years and the incoming new technologies up to the next millennium. The main focus, the effect of speech-to-text Voice Recognition technology - upon the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Sarah Bonner

January 1, 1997

A new generation Of CAPI

Nowadays new equipment, new software with multi-media features and new data-input techniques are available for computer-aided personal interviews (CAPI): pen and voice recording. We call these small and light pen-pads with keyboards the CAPI...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Gerd Meier

Company: GfK

January 1, 1997

Efficiency and added value

This paper describes the potential effects of the advent of the “network computer” on computing in quantitative market research. These effects may be expected to be beneficial, both for the activities of data collection and data analysis....

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Iain MacKay

January 1, 1997

Living in the slow lane?

This paper questions the contribution that new information technology has made to the “sharp end” of the media business at the interface between the buyers and sellers of advertising. Although the author argues that the basic processes of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Managing Media Data For Market Profit

Author: Robert Hulks

November 11, 1996