Re: [MLUG] using cell phones in research

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 10/2/07, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> A company I was doing some work phone was doing some interesting things with
> Java and cell phones. He was saying that they were able to handle just about
> any phone that was labeled a "smartphone".
>
> Something to look into.

Sounds like the Java Mobile platform stuff. That's supposed to be
pretty portable, although I will note that Google (in particular)
seems to customize somewhat for different devices. Shouldn't probably
matter for a simple food intake thing.

Another way to go, for smartphones with web browsers, would be for him
to "ping" them via email and have them go to the (bookmarked)
simplified web form on a server. I guess a downside of that would be
that he might be trying to use the cell phone thing as a way to get an
"immediate" response, so maybe using something that could be reached
by any web browser wouldn't work as well. (People would wait until
they got home or whatever.)

There is a lot of work going on in online experience monitoring
research in psych; you could also search for "experience monitoring"
and see what pops up.

Jon KIng



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> On 10/2/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > A friend here just told me that he wants to collect data from subjects
> > about their eating habits (I think) and he'll want them to send data to
> > him from their cell phones by text messaging.  He's wondering if there is
> > some kind of template that he can use where they fill out the form and
> > submit it.  It sounds like a good idea, but I don't know what might be
> > available.  I assume he'll have to use a certain phone if he's going to
> > run a software program -- phones can't all be alike.
> >
> > Any ideas?  Linux ideas are welcome, but I wonder if there is a little
> > linux phone that can do this kind of thing and doesn't cost too much.
> >
> > Mike
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