Method and system for managing surveys

摘要

A method, a system, and a computer program product for creating and conducting a survey are disclosed. While creating the survey, one or more answer formats corresponding to each of the one or more questions are defined. Then, answering mediums corresponding to each of the one or more answer formats are defined. The survey is then created based on at least one of the questions, the answer formats, and the answering mediums. The survey is then available to the associated users. While conducting the survey, the system receives answers for the questions in the survey through the answering mediums in their associated answer format, and compiles a survey report.

主权项

1. A method for creating a survey, the method comprising:
receiving, by a survey management system, one or more questions defined at one or more computational units from among a plurality of computational units, wherein the survey management system and the plurality of computational units are interconnected by a network, and the one or more questions are transmitted over the network; defining one or more answer formats in which a response to each of the one or more questions will be received by the survey management system for each of the one or more questions, wherein the one or more answer formats correspond to a gesture, a joystick command, or a video; defining one or more answering mediums corresponding to each of the one or more answer formats, wherein each of the one or more answering mediums corresponds to a joystick, a microphone, a camera, an accelerometer equipped device, keyboard, or a mouse through which an answer corresponding to each of the one or more questions is receivable in the defined answer format; defining an answer type for receiving the answer associated with each of the one or more questions; creating the survey by the survey management system based on the one or more answer formats, the corresponding answering mediums, and the defined answer type for each of the one or more questions; publishing the survey to selected computational units from among the plurality of computational units, by the survey management system over the network; and detecting, by the survey management system, one or more answering mediums associated with each of the selected computational units; and activating at least one of the one or more detected answering mediums when receiving answers to each of the one or more questions from each of the selected computational units.