I'm a current M.S. student in a partnership with Colorado State and El
Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Chiapas, Mexico. Currently I'm about to start
my thesis work here in Chiapas on testing mobile technology (Android phones
programmed with your Open Data Kit) for community monitoring of forest
resources such as carbon and rare species and as a possible device for
internal control at a local coffee cooperative.
In the next couple weeks I'm working on my study design for the social
component of the pilot project (I have a partner who will be focusing on the
technical). Basically I'm interested in collecting as many questions from
the developers of this technology on what they would like to know about how
users interact with the software and hardware. I will be designing the
survey to hopefully generate answers/observations on these questions.
I want to ask if the Open Data Kit community has any specific questions
there are interested in with regards to user operation of the software? I
would be grateful to hear them because our goal is to make this pilot
project as useful as possible to those who work in the field of community
monitoring and mobile technology.
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*Elizabeth Tyson*
M.S. Conservation Leadership/Liderazgo Para La Conservación 2012
Colorado State University & El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chiapas Mexico
Elizabeth,
My question earlier may have some bearing on yours. You used the word
"monitoring" in your project description. By definition, this means
that you will be watching certain data over time. My question, and
perhaps for you as well, is how does one use ODK for adding recurring
data into a single record? Or should it be looked at differently? I
am not sure that ODK's purpose is to be a relational database where
there is a given entity (say a plot of land) and then N other
information records attached to this over time. This might be doable
on the aggregate part of ODK with programming. I am not versed enough
in the technical issues, but it seems to me that one-time data
collection (ODK) and entity monitoring are two different beasts. I'd
like to hear what Dr. Borriello has to say about this. It could help
me straighten out my thinking on this and maybe help you too.
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On Sep 19, 1:19 am, Elizabeth Tyson wrote:
> I'm a current M.S. student in a partnership with Colorado State and El
> Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Chiapas, Mexico. Currently I'm about to start
> my thesis work here in Chiapas on testing mobile technology (Android phones
> programmed with your Open Data Kit) for community monitoring of forest
> resources such as carbon and rare species and as a possible device for
> internal control at a local coffee cooperative.
>
> In the next couple weeks I'm working on my study design for the social
> component of the pilot project (I have a partner who will be focusing on the
> technical). Basically I'm interested in collecting as many questions from
> the developers of this technology on what they would like to know about how
> users interact with the software and hardware. I will be designing the
> survey to hopefully generate answers/observations on these questions.
>
> I want to ask if the Open Data Kit community has any specific questions
> there are interested in with regards to user operation of the software? I
> would be grateful to hear them because our goal is to make this pilot
> project as useful as possible to those who work in the field of community
> monitoring and mobile technology.
>
> --
> *Elizabeth Tyson*
> M.S. Conservation Leadership/Liderazgo Para La Conservación 2012
> Colorado State University & El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chiapas Mexico