| 摘要 |
The technology presented here enables low skilled administrators to design a hierarchical survey, low skilled field agents to collect answers to the hierarchical survey, and low skilled field managers to manage and monitor the progress of the field agents. The hierarchical surveys designed can be complex hierarchical surveys comprising multi-stage sampling units. The graphical user interfaces presented to the users are easy to use, and hide the complexity of the hierarchical survey. The user devices can communicate with each other to transmit the hierarchical surveys and the answers received to the hierarchical surveys using peer-to-peer networks, in environments where there is low, or no Internet connectivity. |
| 主权项 |
1. A computer-implemented method to facilitate field data collection, said method comprising:
generating an administrator graphical user interface, associated with an administrator user device, to guide an administrator user in creating a hierarchical survey, said hierarchical survey comprising a plurality of levels, wherein each level comprises a node, wherein a first subset of said plurality of levels corresponds to a sampling unit associated with a hierarchical survey stage, and wherein a second subset of said plurality of levels corresponds to a question category, and wherein a third subset of said plurality of levels corresponds to a question; transmitting said hierarchical survey from said administrator user device to a field agent device; configuring a field agent graphical user interface, associated with said field agent device, to correspond to said plurality of levels associated with said hierarchical survey, said field agent graphical user interface configured to enable a field agent to navigate, without having to complete said node before switching to another node, among said plurality of levels and among said nodes associated with said plurality of levels; transmitting, from said field agent device to a field manager device, an answer to said hierarchical survey via a peer-to-peer network; based on said answer, configuring a field manager graphical user interface, associated with said field manager device, to indicate hierarchical survey progress associated with said hierarchical survey, said hierarchical survey progress comprising a progress percentage associated with said level in said hierarchical survey, and a progress percentage associated with said node associated with said level; and based on said answer, computing analytics to display in an analytics graphical user interface. |
