ONLINE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method of conducting online research comprising the steps of:
- a. securing research participants having desired participant characteristics;
b. providing the research participants with online queries seeking feedback from the research participants on one or more topics;
c. collecting the feedback online from the research participants, the feedback including one or more of text and images;
d. allowing a researcher to assign tags to the feedback from the research participants, each tag;
(1) being assigned to at least one of;
(a) a text string selected from text submitted by a research participant, and(b) an image submitted by a research participant,(2) having an associated tag label,e. aggregating the text strings and images corresponding to each tag label.
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Abstract
An online research system delivers allows a researcher to script queries to be delivered to research participants, delivers the queries, collects research participant feedback, and aggregates the feedback for review and analysis by the researcher. Tools are provided which allow queries to be rapidly and easily scripted, and the researcher may situate the queries along a timeline to schedule their automatic delivery. Researchers may assign “tags” to feedback, wherein researchers may select content from feedback and apply a label, and thereafter rapidly access this content by referencing its label. As a result, researchers are able to rapidly catalogue useful content for use in compiling their findings regarding research participant feedback.
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22 Claims
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1. A method of conducting online research comprising the steps of:
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a. securing research participants having desired participant characteristics; b. providing the research participants with online queries seeking feedback from the research participants on one or more topics; c. collecting the feedback online from the research participants, the feedback including one or more of text and images; d. allowing a researcher to assign tags to the feedback from the research participants, each tag; (1) being assigned to at least one of; (a) a text string selected from text submitted by a research participant, and (b) an image submitted by a research participant, (2) having an associated tag label, e. aggregating the text strings and images corresponding to each tag label. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18)
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16. The method of step 9 further comprising the step of delivering a reminder to a research participant if the research participant does not provide online feedback to the online query within a predetermined time period.
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21. A method of conducting online research comprising the steps of:
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a. periodically delivering an online query to a research participant at scheduled intervals, wherein the online query solicits one or more of; (1) quantitative feedback from the research participant on one or more topics, wherein the quantitative feedback consists of at least one of; (a) data selected from a predefined set of discrete values presented to the research participant, and (b) data selected from a continuous range of values presented to the research participant; (2) qualitative feedback from the research participant on one or more topics, wherein the qualitative feedback consists of text freely entered by the research participant at the research participant'"'"'s discretion; b. collecting the quantitative feedback and qualitative feedback from the research participants; c. assigning researcher-specified tags to the qualitative feedback wherein each tag; (1) bears an associated tag label, and (2) is assigned to a text string selected from the text within the qualitative feedback; d. compiling within a database the tag labels and the text strings to which they are assigned; and e. displaying at least a portion of the quantitative feedback in one or more of; (1) tabular form, (2) statistical form, and (3) graphical form.
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22. A method of conducting online research comprising the steps of:
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a. collecting online queries from a researcher to be delivered to research participants, wherein each online query solicits feedback from the research participants; b. storing each of the online queries in association with a respective scheduled delivery time; c. automatically delivering the online queries to the research participants in accordance with their scheduled delivery times; d. collecting the feedback online from the research participants, the feedback including text entered by the research participants; e. visually displaying to the researcher along a timeline; (1) the online queries, (2) the feedback collected from the research participants in response to the online queries, and (3) one or more of; (a) the number of research participants who have provided feedback to the online queries, and (b) the number of research participants who have not provided feedback to the online queries, along the timeline.
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