Yuan Ren

AI and Qualitative Research: From Research Tool to Methodological Challenge Artificial intelligence is no longer a polite “future guest” waiting outside the research office; in this article, it has already walked into healthcare, education, and scientific inquiry. Dellafiore, Saba, Collaro, and Artioli open by making the background unmistakably clear: AI, as a field spanning computer science, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, and psychology, is rapidly reshaping research methods;...

LLMs can produce many qualitative codes, but not all of them carry meaning. This article looks at what Gemma2 and Llama3.1 actually add to thematic analysis.

AI Agents in Online Surveys If you run online surveys today, there is a good chance your respondents come from an online recruitment platform. These platforms now sit behind a large share of behavioral research, shaping academic work in psychology, public health, economics, and political science. They also support consequential commercial decisions in product design and public communication. But the rise of large language models (LLMs) has made an old concern feel newly urgent: are the...