EpiCollect: linking smartphones to web applications for epidemiology, ecology and community data collection

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 4; no. 9; p. e6968
• Main Authors: Aanensen, David M, Huntley, Derek M, Feil, Edward J, al-Own, Fada'a, Spratt, Brian G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 16.09.2009; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Applications programs; Cell Phone; Cell phones; Cellular telephones; Collection; Communities; Computational Biology; Computational Biology - instrumentation; Computational Biology - methods; Computers; Data bases; Data collection; Data Collection - instrumentation; Data Collection - methods; Data processing; Database Management Systems; Digital map services; Digital mapping; Ecology; Ecology - instrumentation; Epidemiology; Epidemiology - instrumentation; Filtration; Freeware; Geography; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Information Dissemination; Internet; Internet software; Methyltestosterone; Mobile operating systems; Operating systems; Operating systems (Software); Programming Languages; Smart phones; Smartphones; Software; Technology application; Web applications; Wireless telephone software; Workers

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 G...