General Online Research Conference 2025 - AppKit Workshop

Overview

The repository contains all materials for the workshop on the GESIS AppKit at the GOR conference 2025 in Berlin. The goal if the workshop is to make participants familiar with creating an account, setting up a study, collecting data and analyzing data with the GESIS AppKit.

Required Materials:

To participate in the workshop, you will need:

• A Laptop with Internet connection
• An Android or iOS Smartphone
• RStudio installed on your Laptop
• Same basic experience with R

Schedule

Time	Activity
13:30 – 13:45	Welcome & Intro
13:45 – 14:00	Setting the scene: Smartphones as research tool
14:00 – 14:15	Introducing the GESIS AppKit
14:15 – 14:30	Developing your project / GESIS AppKit use case
14:30 – 14:45	Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:00	Live-Demo: How to use the GESIS AppKit
15:00 – 15:40	Implementing your project
15:40 – 15:50	Short Break
15:50 – 16:20	Working with GESIS AppKit data
16:20 – 16:30	Recap & Outlook

Additional Materials

All information about the GESIS AppKit: https://www.gesis.org/gesis-appkit

GESIS AppKit Mailing List: https://lists.gesis.org/mailman/listinfo/gesis-appkit

Manual for the GESIS Appkit: https://appkit.gesis.org/manual/

Login Page for the GESIS AppKit: https://admin.appkit.gesis.org/login

GESIS SMART App (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.surveyAppKit&hl=de&pli=1

GESIS SMART App (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/de/app/gesis-smart/id6479244351

Setup for Code-along

To prepare for the code-along part of the workshop in advance, you can already install all required packages in R / RStudio:

# List of required packages
packages <- c("ggplot2",
              "anytime",
              "dplyr",
              "psych",
              "corrplot",
              "cli",
              "lubridate",
              "tidyverse",
              "ggpubr")

# Check if each package is installed and install if missing
for (package in packages) {
  if (!require(package, character.only = TRUE, quietly = TRUE)) {
    message(paste("Installing package:", package))
    install.packages(package, repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
    library(package, character.only = TRUE)
  } else {
    message(paste("Package", package, "is already loaded"))
  }
}

message("All required packages are now installed and loaded")