Developing a WAP-based Mobility Survey System

开发基于 WAP 的流动性调查系统

• 批准号: 6643170
• 负责人: JERRY W WICKS
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: SENECIO SOFTWARE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-01 至 2003-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6643170
• 关键词: clinical research; computer human interaction; computer network; computer program /software; computer system design /evaluation; data collection methodology /evaluation; health surveys; human subject; portable biomedical equipment; questionnaires; telecommunications; telemedicine; telemetry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is the de facto standard for wireless computing and an essential technology underlying the linkage of mobile devices to the Internet. This protocol plays a key role in fostering the global trend toward mobile commerce and what is sometimes referred to as ubiquitous, pervasive, or weightless computing. This Phase I SBIR application proposes to test the feasibility of extending the data gathering capabilities of the platform-neutral, multilingual, AskAnywhere survey system to WAP-enabled devices including web phones, personal digital assistants and a growing number of application-specific mobile computing platforms. The demand for low cost, lightweight, Internet-based handheld survey devices is growing. Healthcare specialist, social scientist, educators, and political pollsters, etc. have an immediate need for wireless, mobile survey systems capable of maintaining a continuous link to the Internet. Current handheld solutions are limited largely to desktop HotSync cradles, infrared (IR) beaming, and proprietary wireless connections restricted to local area networks or national "web clipping" services. Reliance on these older protocols constrains a device's link to the network, limiting the nature of its communication with online databases and thereby reducing its value for widespread survey efforts. A portable survey system based on a three-tier model consisting of a client-side, WAP-based mobile PDA (personal digital assistant); Java servlet middleware; and back-end database will furnish researchers with a lightweight data gathering system freed of the constraints imposed by the limits inherent in current, wireless, mobile survey products.

描述（由申请人提供）：WAP（无线应用协议）是无线计算的事实上的标准，并且是移动的设备到因特网的链接的基本技术。该协议在促进全球移动的商务趋势以及有时被称为无处不在、普适或失重计算的趋势中起着关键作用。第一阶段SBIR应用程序建议测试将平台中立、多语言、AskAnywhere调查系统的数据收集能力扩展到WAP设备的可行性，包括网络电话、个人数字助理和越来越多的特定应用程序的移动的计算平台。对低成本、重量轻、基于互联网的手持测量设备的需求正在增长。医疗保健专家、社会科学家、教育工作者和政治民意调查者等迫切需要能够保持与互联网的连续链接的无线、移动的调查系统。当前的手持解决方案主要限于桌面HotSync底座、红外（IR）波束以及限于局域网或国家“网页剪辑”服务的专有无线连接。对这些旧协议的依赖限制了设备与网络的链接，限制了其与在线数据库通信的性质，从而降低了其对广泛调查工作的价值。一个便携式的调查系统的基础上的三层模型，包括一个客户端，基于WAP的移动的PDA（个人数字助理）; Java servlet中间件;和后端数据库将提供一个轻量级的数据收集系统的限制，目前，无线，移动的调查产品的固有限制所施加的自由的研究人员。