I am currently writing up the protocol for a diary study examining trait-behavioural consistency and its relationship with mood. I would like to present 15 items, 3 times a day for 2 weeks. Ideally, I would also like the items to be rotated at random from a slightly larger pool.
I am specifically looking at the best software to use to enable people to fill in the survey from their smartphones, either via email or the use of an app. Does anyone with experience in implementing similar designs have any suggestions?
Hi Tom,
me again :)
you can take a look at the compilation provided by Tamlin Conner:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/psychology/otago0474751.pdf
We have done some studies on mood and other stuff using movisens. It is very easy to set up, has good support and works fine with android mobiles. However, it gets rather expensive very quickly depending on how many items you have per signal.
The cheaper alternatives are using an online survey provider that offers mobile-friendly layouts and another one for the sampling. You can look at http://www.surveysignal.com/
this one manages the sampling, the survey is prepared with another software. I like the way how fluidsurveys adapt to the mobiles, but you can also look at soscisurvey (no costs for scientific research). The adavantage is that you are not limited to androids, but these solutions are clearly not that comfortable as movisens.
Best, Dorota
Hi Dorota, Sven
Thanks for these suggestions. I have little to no budget to play with, so my options are somewhat limited by these constraints. I spoke to movisens about doing a student 'deal' but even then it would work out very expensive for me.
Thus my next option is to work with the IT people at my university and maybe get something done in conjunction with them. Or, alternatively I will look at soscisurvey.
Regards
Tom
Thanks Chris
I have put my diary study on hold for the time being, but will definitely take a look.
Tom
Hi Tom,
My team has developed an experience sampling solution that lets you target participants based on time or GPS location via our mobile apps. We have gained a lot of traction running commercial projects for market research firms and will be making our software available to non-commercial users at cost.
Send me an email at [email protected] or [email protected] if you want to talk about your project.
Brian
Hi Brian
Thanks for this, at the moment I have planned to use Cognilab, but if that doesn't work out then I will be in touch.
Tom
We have released an open source package called Survalytics which may be used for experience sampling in the Android OS. We are currently working on a port to Xamarin Forms Portable Class Library, which will allow dual compilation to iOS and Android:
"Survalytics: An Open-Source Cloud-Integrated Experience Sampling, Survey, and Analytics and Metadata Collection Module for Android Operating System Apps"
http://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.5397
This sounds ideal for using our software ESmCapture. Our new web app platform has the randomized pooled question capability you require. Take a look at www.esmcapture.com.
Hi Tom -
Please try out Expimetrics (www.expimetrics.com). As an ESM/EMA researcher myself, I have tried to create a simple but powerful platform for researchers.
Mechanics
On the web, researchers create different surveys within a project and can schedule these different surveys.
Each project has a unique access code.
Projects are administered to participants via our mobile apps which are free for participants to download and use. Participants enter the access code to start your project
Strengths
1. Flexible scheduling: Use Calendar Dates, or use Days whenever participants start a survey (automatically individualized to participant start dates). Basically, researchers can do signal-contingent, time-contingent, and event-based scheduling.
2. Scheduling surveys but also enabling event-contingent or one-time surveys within a project (e.g., demographic questionnaire). Researchers can create mixed schedule projects very easily.
3. Automatic linking of surveys for a single respondent in the data download. There is no need for researcher assigned ID and manually linking surveys.
4. All surveys are scheduled and delivered based on participant time zones. A 9am survey will be 9am for a participant regardless of where they are at. This enables data collection across a wide variety of locations.
5. Real-time tracking of participant response rates and messaging of participants, particularly to follow-up on low response rate participants.
6. Mobile apps are available in both iOS and Android for free.
7. No need to obtain participant cell phone information etc. Just have participants download apps to their phone and enter the access code for your project.
8. Collect unique data like video, voice, pictures, and location information from participants.
9. For a yearly license, researchers can conduct as many ESM/EMA projects as they want. There is no charge for app notifications (i.e., signals to participants) and it is all inclusive.
10. We have a growing knowledge base for easy use of the platform.
COMING SOON: direct payments to participants via mobile apps, survey previews, etc.
Hope you can try it out. The basic features of survey creation are free and participants can take surveys that do not have a specific schedule. We collaborate with researchers to build functionalities to provide cutting-edge data collection.
The more feedback we receive, the better we can serve the research community.
Thank you,
Louis
www.expimetrics.com
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