The Self Survey Project

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The Self Survey Project
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• Olga Arbitman olgaarbitman_at_rcn.com
• Gavin Qui gavinqiu_at_gmail.com
• Kevin McManus knm218_at_nyu.edu

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Self Survey in a Nutshell
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Audience Anyone who desires information that can
be obtained in question form. Businesses,
non-profits, individuals

• Create surveys online
• Deploy/administer surveys via email
• Survey takers use internet to take survey
• Online reporting for survey creators
• Charge for creating the survey and for each
  survey actually taken
• Provide advertisements, as a 2nd revenue source,
  on each survey taken, eventually to match takers
  demographic

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Features in an Ideal World
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• Multiple question types free form text,
  one-from-a-list (radio buttons),
  multiple-answers-from-a-list (check boxes),
  combinations
• Stronger links between taker demographics and
  advertisements
• Custom build reporting
• More complex surveys

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Features Actually Implemented
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• Survey creation just radio button style
• Survey Taking w/advertisement inserted w/o any
  matching logic
• Survey Reporting simple, cumulative reporting

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Self Survey Data Model
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Self Survey User Classes
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• Survey Owner Create/define surveys, set dates,
  administer, use reports/results
• Survey Taker Person who receives email w/link
  to taker survey
• Advertisers Pay to have relevant adds matched
  with survey takers of specific demographics

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Software Design Overview
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• MySQL, JSPs, Servlets, J2E
• Model, View, Controller paradigm separation of
  logic and presentation
• Objects for each type of interaction db access,
  survey creator, survey taker, survey report
  viewer, advertisement

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Demonstration
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