EpiCollect: linking smartphones to web applications for epidemiology, ecology and community data collection.
EpiCollect: linking smartphones to web applications for epidemiology, ecology and community data collection.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0006968
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发表时间：
2009-09-16
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Spratt BG
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文献类型：
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作者：
Aanensen DM;Huntley DM;Feil EJ;al-Own F;Spratt BG
流行病学家和生态学家经常在实地收集数据，在返回他们的实验室后，将他们的数据输入数据库以供进一步分析。最近推出了使用开源Android操作系统的手机，其中包括(除其他功能外)全球定位系统和谷歌地图，这为开发手机应用程序提供了新的机会，这些应用程序与网络应用程序相结合，允许实地工作人员与他们的项目数据库之间进行双向通信。在这里，我们描述了一个通用框架，它由移动电话软件、EpiCollect和位于www.spatialEpicology.net内的一个Web应用程序组成。多名现场工作人员收集的数据可以通过电话与GPS数据一起提交到一个通用的网络数据库，并可以使用谷歌地图(或谷歌地球)与以前收集的数据一起显示和分析。同样，也可以使用谷歌地图，在移动电话上请求和显示来自网络数据库的数据。数据过滤选项允许显示各个现场工作人员提交的数据，例如，显示测量变量或时间段的特定值内的数据。利用移动电话向中央数据库提交数据和从中央数据库提交数据的数据收集框架广泛适用，可以为外地工作人员提供类似于通过网络在其实验室查看数据时在其移动电话上显示和分析数据的工具。我们展示了它们在流行病学数据收集和显示方面的效用，并简要讨论了它们在生态和社区数据收集中的应用。此外，这种框架为招募“公民科学家”提供了巨大的潜力，可以通过他们的移动电话轻松地将数据贡献给中央数据库。
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. Here we describe a generic framework, consisting of mobile phone software, EpiCollect, and a web application located within www.spatialepidemiology.net. Data collected by multiple field workers can be submitted by phone, together with GPS data, to a common web database and can be displayed and analysed, along with previously collected data, using Google Maps (or Google Earth). Similarly, data from the web database can be requested and displayed on the mobile phone, again using Google Maps. Data filtering options allow the display of data submitted by the individual field workers or, for example, those data within certain values of a measured variable or a time period. 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.
影响因子：
14.9
作者：
Aanensen DM;Spratt BG
通讯作者：
Spratt BG
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.95.6.3140
发表时间：
1998-03-17
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Maiden, MCJ;Bygraves, JA;Spratt, BG
通讯作者：
Spratt, BG