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Prompt frequency, questionnaire length, and study duration: the design trade-offs that shape ESM data quality
Three upstream design choices determine how much burden an ESM participant carries and how much usable data a study produces: how many prompts arrive per day, how many items each prompt asks, and how many days the protocol runs. This post reviews what the evidence says each choice costs and buys — including the experimental finding that questionnaire length, not sampling frequency, is what degrades data quality — and covers the response window as a fourth, separate decision.
August 17, 2026
The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling has a third edition — and a whole chapter on choosing your tool
The field's standard step-by-step guide to experience sampling was re-released in April 2026, free to download, with every chapter updated and a new one on studying couples in daily life. Its platform chapter is a tool-agnostic checklist worth reading before you commit to any app — here's what it says, and how a smartphone platform like SMAAT reads against it.
April 27, 2026