tonyxiao/Survey-Droid

Social Science research has traditionally required data that is difficult to gather; by using smartphones as data collection tools we can overcome the methodological limitations that have hampered social science research and kept important questions from being answered. We will design an open source Android application that will be distributed to over 100 reentering prisoners to track their job-search experience. The application will enable: collection of location-based data, collection of anonymized phone call information, distribution of short questionnaires to study participants, contact between study participants and researchers through audio or video messages. We aim to design an application that will outlive the initial study and that is general enough to allow other researchers to use it. We will design a simple web-based front-end that will allow researchers to download information, monitor subject participation, and access communications sent by participants. All together, this will be a powerful tool for sociologists, enabling them to conduct useful, targeted, and inexpensive research on almost any population.

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