NZDIS/TobaccoFree

Smoking in cars: tobacco usage logger. Citizen science, crowd-sourcing, smartphones.

         Smoking in the cars study
             University of Otago 

       in partnernship with Globalink

        http://tobaccofree.nzdis.org
             current version: 1.9


[app code: 10, db local: 2, update protocol: 4]


Purpose
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The purpose of the study is to establish
patterns and scale of smoking in passanger 
vehicles. Observers (people with mobile phones)
can download the application and provide help during
the data acquisition phase. 
For this, we have developped a mobile application 
and the website that stores the data.



Android application for GlobaLink
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The application currently runs on Android. 
You can download it from the market. It is 
called: TobaccoFree


Website
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To become a register data acquisition agent,
you need to register and be approved by our 
research staff.


Visit:
http://tobaccofree.nzdis.org



Technical details
=====================

The project is provided for other researchers 
to benefit from. We have published our code in
an open source fashion. The front end is provided 
as an Android application, and the backend uses
Python/Django framework. 

The repository contains two Eclipse projects,
one for Android app, and one for Python backend.


Please contact  support@nzdis.org  if you have any questions.


If you want to help, please contact us. If you could translate
the application into your own language, we would appreciate it!