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Aanensen DM, Huntley DM, Feil EJ, al-Own F, Spratt BG, 2009
EpiCollect: Linking Smartphones to Web Applications for Epidemiology, Ecology
and Community Data Collection. PLoS ONE 4(9): e6968.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006968
Abstract
Background
Epidemiologists and ecologists often collect data in the
field and, on returning to their laboratory, enter their data into a database
for further analysis. The recent introduction of mobile phones that utilise the
open source Android operating system, and which include (among other features)
both GPS and Google Maps, provide new opportunities for developing mobile phone
applications, which in conjunction with web applications, allow two-way
communication between field workers and their project databases.
Data collection frameworks utilising mobile phones with data
submission to and from central databases are widely applicable and can give a
field worker similar display and analysis tools on their mobile phone that they
would have if viewing the data in their laboratory via the web. We demonstrate
their utility for epidemiological data collection and display, and briefly
discuss their application in ecological and community data collection.
Furthermore, such frameworks offer great potential for recruiting ‘citizen
scientists’ to contribute data easily to central databases through their mobile
phone.
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Gerry McKiernan
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