A query from a student at University of Southern California

Hi to the ODK Team,

I am student for Master's in Computer Science at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles. I am pursuing a Directed Research under a
Professor at the university and looking forward to design and code an
survey App for the Professor.
We have the following special needs:

  1. Programming of alarm/beeper reminders for about 3 times/day and for
    multiple days that participants will be asked to complete surveys.
  2. Seamless link from alarm/beeper survey reminder to launching of survey.
  3. Seamless transition from end of the survey to initiation of a standalone
    cognitive function test program.
  4. Ensuring that all the survey data is stored locally on device and
    uploaded to server when cellular or wifi connection is available.

I am curious to know if it is possible to satisfy the above needs using ODK
and How... ?
I would like to know if all of this is possible. If not all, then what is
possible and what not.
Your response will help me decide if I should use the ODK technology or
anything else for the App.
Waiting for an early response...

Thanks,

-Regards,
Nitin Jain
IT Software Engineering Intern,
salesforce*.com |* San Francisco, CA
Contact No*: (213)-595-8595*
Email Id*: n.jain@salesforce.com / nitinjai@usc.edu *

"If your intentions are good and noble, GOD is with U..."

Nitin:

the easiest approach to this, depending on if your survey is of reasonable
size/richness to warrant using ODK, would be to create your own timer/test
app that calls ODK Collect through Android's intent mechanism. That way
you can do the timers as you want, call ODK, then after the form is
completed/saved and ODK returns, call the cognitive function test program -
all from your app orchestrating this.

Hope this helps,
Gaetano

··· On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Nitin Jain wrote:

Hi to the ODK Team,

I am student for Master's in Computer Science at the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles. I am pursuing a Directed Research under a
Professor at the university and looking forward to design and code an
survey App for the Professor.
We have the following special needs:

  1. Programming of alarm/beeper reminders for about 3 times/day and for
    multiple days that participants will be asked to complete surveys.
  2. Seamless link from alarm/beeper survey reminder to launching of survey.
  3. Seamless transition from end of the survey to initiation of a
    standalone cognitive function test program.
  4. Ensuring that all the survey data is stored locally on device and
    uploaded to server when cellular or wifi connection is available.

I am curious to know if it is possible to satisfy the above needs using
ODK and How... ?
I would like to know if all of this is possible. If not all, then what is
possible and what not.
Your response will help me decide if I should use the ODK technology or
anything else for the App.
Waiting for an early response...

Thanks,

-Regards,
Nitin Jain
IT Software Engineering Intern,
salesforce*.com |* San Francisco, CA
Contact No*: (213)-595-8595*
Email Id*: n.jain@salesforce.com / nitinjai@usc.edu *

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I was about to write the same thing as Gaetano. Here are some previous
discussions on our email lists on intents that might help get you started.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/opendatakit-developers/2Rva3tw5vcY

http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit-developers/browse_frm/month/2012-04?pli=1

http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit-developers/browse_thread/thread/4d521742a7ba9331/1a21162c19550069

Waylon

··· On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Gaetano Borriello < gaetano@cs.washington.edu> wrote:

Nitin:

the easiest approach to this, depending on if your survey is of reasonable
size/richness to warrant using ODK, would be to create your own timer/test
app that calls ODK Collect through Android's intent mechanism. That way
you can do the timers as you want, call ODK, then after the form is
completed/saved and ODK returns, call the cognitive function test program -
all from your app orchestrating this.

Hope this helps,
Gaetano

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Nitin Jain jain.nitin2050@gmail.comwrote:

Hi to the ODK Team,

I am student for Master's in Computer Science at the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles. I am pursuing a Directed Research under a
Professor at the university and looking forward to design and code an
survey App for the Professor.
We have the following special needs:

  1. Programming of alarm/beeper reminders for about 3 times/day and for
    multiple days that participants will be asked to complete surveys.
  2. Seamless link from alarm/beeper survey reminder to launching of survey.
  3. Seamless transition from end of the survey to initiation of a
    standalone cognitive function test program.
  4. Ensuring that all the survey data is stored locally on device and
    uploaded to server when cellular or wifi connection is available.

I am curious to know if it is possible to satisfy the above needs using
ODK and How... ?
I would like to know if all of this is possible. If not all, then what is
possible and what not.
Your response will help me decide if I should use the ODK technology or
anything else for the App.
Waiting for an early response...

Thanks,

-Regards,
Nitin Jain
IT Software Engineering Intern,
salesforce*.com |* San Francisco, CA
Contact No*: (213)-595-8595*
Email Id*: n.jain@salesforce.com / nitinjai@usc.edu *

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