A wechat-based survey tool for Chinese international students

WeChat is the most commonly-used social network app among Chinese international students. This app has a 'mini-program' function, which allows third-party developers to create 'sub-apps' within the WeChat ecosystem. I am currently leading a research project that looks at the experience of Chinese international students in UWA. I am looking for a great project team to help me develop a WeChat mini-program that will allow my colleagues and me to collect information from Chinese international students through questionnaires.

A workable mini-program should have the following key features:

  1. An initiative interface that allows researchers to upload multiple-choice (including the choices for each question) and short-answer (include textbox for answers) questions;
  2. A user-friendly interface for Chinese international students to answer questions on their mobile phones;
  3. The ability to collect and send the data (i.e. answers to the questions) to a storage place;
  4. The ability to allow researchers to export data in CSV format
  5. The ability to allow students to resume their unfinished questions

Besides, an ideal mini-program should also have the following functions (in the order of decreasing necessity):

  1. Allow follow-up questions to be presented when a student answers a question in a certain way
  2. Allow the answers of the multiple-choice questions to appear in a random order
  3. Allow some questions to only appear to a randomly selected sub-group of students OR allow a particular questionnaire to appear to a randomly selected sub-group of students (i.e. the researchers will prepare, say, three questionnaires and each questionnaire is shown to 1/3 of students) -- This will make it possible for survey-based field experiments
  4. Exploit the APIs allowed by Wechat to record 'background' information (such as the amount of time they used to complete the questionnaire and the place where they take the survey) -- I can work the team to prepare a consent/privacy statement if we reach this stage

For a brief introduction on the WeChat mini-program, please click: https://walkthechat.com/wechat-mini-programs-simple-introduction/

Client


Contact: Dr Yu Tao
Phone: 3959
Email[email protected]
Preferred contact: Phone,Email
Location: G01, Social Sciences Building

IP Exploitation Model


The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: An agreement to joint exploitation of any IP that is created



Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 05 June 2019
Modified By: Michael Wise
UWA