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Query: Dynamic Question Ordering in Online Surveys   Online surveys have the potential to support adaptive questions, where later
questions depend on earlier responses. Past work has taken a rule-based
approach, uniformly across all respondents. We envision a richer interpretation
of adaptive questions, which we call dynamic question ordering (DQO), where
question order is personalized. Such an approach could increase engagement, and
therefore response rate, as well as imputation quality. We present a DQO
framework to improve survey completion and imputation. In the general
survey-taking setting, we want to maximize survey completion, and so we focus
on ordering questions to engage the respondent and collect hopefully all
information, or at least the information that most characterizes the
respondent, for accurate imputations. In another scenario, our goal is to
provide a personalized prediction. Since it is possible to give reasonable
predictions with only a subset of questions, we are not concerned with
motivating users to answer all questions. Instead, we want to order questions
to get information that reduces prediction uncertainty, while not being too
burdensome. We illustrate this framework with an example of providing energy
estimates to prospective tenants. We also discuss DQO for national surveys and
consider connections between our statistics-based question-ordering approach
and cognitive survey methodology.

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