ASKANYWHERE@: WEB-BASED SURVEY SOFTWARE

描述(申请人提供)：申请的目标是完成 AskAnywhere基于Web的调查系统的设计、编码和营销。 该系统由三个组件组成：问卷编辑应用程序、 客户端数据采集小程序，以及通信和数据处理 服务器程序。这三个组件可以在所有运行Java的计算机上运行 虚拟机器。问卷编辑应用程序具有简单明了的 图形用户界面简化了复杂的所见即所得的设计和编辑 问卷调查。调查问卷编辑器简化了 调查问卷，包括复杂的跳转、动态计算和嵌入 填写问题和答复的措辞。可以填写调查问卷 任何现代语言，因为所有文件都以Unicode格式存储。这项调查 引擎，一个Java小程序下载到答辩人的机器上时， 调查，为受访者和调查管理员提供安全、可靠的 基于Web的数据收集协议。网络服务器程序提供会话 跟踪、数据解密、维护调查问卷之间的实时链接 和符合JDBC的数据库，并提供自动统计分析和 通过网络绘制图表。进一步协助社会和健康科学家，以及 调查研究人员无处不在，广泛使用的问题和库 将汇编和整合调查问卷。该编辑器将导入和 以各种跨应用程序格式导出调查问卷文件。 建议的商业应用： 寻求强大调查的社会和健康科学家、教育工作者和市场研究人员 能够从各种来源编写和导入调查问卷的工具将被吸引 使用AskAnywhere的编辑选项、调查问卷普及性和多语言功能。 市场分析师和企业调查研究人员将欣赏AskAnywhere的多层、 高度可扩展的设计，其中可以将企业遗留数据库合并到数据中 收集努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The application's objective is completion of the design, coding and marketing of the AskAnywhere web-based survey system. The system consists of three components: a questionnaire editing application, a client-side data collection applet, and a communication and data processing server program. These three components work on all computers running Java Virtual Machines. The questionnaire editing application has a straightforward graphical user interface easing the design and editing of complex, WYSIWYG questionnaires. The questionnaire editor simplifies the "programming" of questionnaires, which include complex skips, dynamic calculations and embedded fills in the wording of questions and responses. Questionnaires can be written in any modern language since all files are stored as Unicode. The survey engine, a Java applet downloaded to the respondent's machine at the time of the survey, offers both respondents and survey administrators a secure, robust protocol for web-based data collection. The web-server program offers session tracking, data decryption, maintains real-time links between the questionnaire and a JDBC compliant database and offers automatic statistical analysis and charting via the web. To further assist social and health scientists, and survey researchers everywhere, a bank of widely used questions and questionnaires will be compiled and integrated. The editor will import and export questionnaire files in a wide variety of cross-application formats. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Social and health scientists, educators and market researchers seeking powerful surveying tools capable writing and importing questionnaires from a variety of sources will be attracted to AskAnywhere's editing options, questionnaire ecumenicity, and multilingual capabilities. Market analyst and corporate survey researchers will appreciate AskAnywhere's multi-tier, highly scalable design in which corporate legacy databases can be incorporated into data collection efforts.