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Computer-assisted interviewing systems have various benefits, as compared to paper-and-pencil surveys. The engine for processing questionnaires, however, should be reprogrammed when the questionnaire is changed since its processing logic is hard-coded in the system. As such, the engine for processing questionnaires depends on the questionnaires. This study makes the engine for processing questionnaires independent of questionnaires using an active document model. In this model, machines can process documents with rules specified in the documents. The active questionnaire, which is an active document, is composed of questions, control logic, and a knowledgebase. Among these, control logic expresses a method of processing questions in an executable XML. In this paper, we propose a framework for processing active questionnaires and describe its implementation.
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Jang, SA., Yang, JG., Bae, JH.J. (2010). Computer-Assisted Interviewing with Active Questionnaires. In: An, A., Lingras, P., Petty, S., Huang, R. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15470-6_42
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