Ideas Gallery - Sai Kishore MV (Kishu)

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1 Ideas Gallery - Sai Kishore MV (Kishu) All Ideas are for LS 2.0 Idea: # 1: Theme / Template Framework Develop a theme / template framework similar to one in jquery ( and thus making the UI design of the surveys easier. Since the UI of the survey is of high priority when the survey is published, there is a need for an interactive UI driven framework to easily design custom templates/themes without having any developing experience. The current template editor is based on dwoo template engine which actually loads the files exposing the css etc for us to edit, which of course require some skill set to proceed. Using this template editor we can make everything UI based. There is no need of any developer skills. Here is an overview of the modules we can implement: It ll be implemented using Jquery to use the more advanced UI experiences. The following mock-up will give us a better view:

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3 Idea: # 2: Lime Survey Social :: Facebook Application Develop a Facebook application for Limesurvey and add a social touch to it. Social networking is the most popular activity in the web world. There is a need for quick, personalized surveys or to be clear opinion gathering either for persons or organizations in this social world. The idea aims at developing a Facebook app which gives a social touch to LS 2.0. The application will be integrated in several Facebook integration points like News Feed, Applications boxes, Wall etc so that the user participation will be more. Adding a social touch can drive us more user participation and increase the popularity. The ability to control the Facebook app can be provided in the LS2.0 Admin Dashboard and also in the FB user application window with varied options. The facebook has the following modules (we can add more. This is primary draft.) All Survey related core features. (Create, Edit, Delete, Administer etc) Gain reward points. Use reward points to create more surveys. Spread the surveys... and need to think on more The over view of the app is shown in the following mock-ups:

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6 Idea: # 3: Integration of Poll Questions Develop an interface in admin area to create and administer polls. Quick answers and need for the feedback about the survey itself underlies the necessity of polls. Also Polls are one type of response gatherers. Polls are one of the most popular and quick response getting tools once can use. I feel, implementing polls in LS 2.0 will be an added advantage. Since every one of us know what polls are about, this idea focuses on the implementation part. The idea is to integrate the ability to create a POLL Module in Admin dashboard, where he can administer (Create Edit Delete View Responses etc) the Polls. The polls can be well integrated into the widgets idea (Idea #4 below). We can even get feedback about the survey at the end on how the user feels by creating a custom poll (we can even redirect the user to this poll). As mentioned below in widgets idea, we can have custom Poll widgets lying in the users/organizations website backed up by LS 2.0. Chat Bots and Polls: An another idea is to create chat bots so that whenever we create a poll, all the friends (who added the bot) of that bot will be pinged by the question followed by options. Getting an answer is very easy (Bot friends just need to type a single letter stating the answer) and its a push model which ensures the delivery to everyone (even offline). We can even extend this to deliver certain type of surveys question by question through the bot. A simple mock-up for this:

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8 Idea: # 4: LS Widgets Develop an interface to build custom widgets that can be integrated in to various websites as snippets of code. The need for popularity and reach of the survey has provoked this idea. Widgets are one of the popular UI s specially seen in blogs and sites. The idea is to develop a module in the admin dashboard where he can create custom widgets to deliver his surveys. Developing blog plug-ins (Wordpress, Blogger etc) and widgets for general websites are the key concepts in this idea. The presentation of surveys will wary and will be restricted to the widget walls. Since everyone are familiar with what widgets are, the idea is quite self explanatory. What things should be included in such widgets is an area to be brain stormed.

9 Idea: # 5: Stat-o-meter & Trac-o-meter Develop an improved interface to analyse the statistics and implement Live tracking of the surveys The idea improves and adds new features to the LS 2.0 Repo. First about Stat-o-meter: Stat-o-meter is an all-in-one statistics module for the survey administrator. He can have good analysis of the survey statistics using the graphical tools. This is quite self explanatory since we have lot of experience with graphical statistics analysis tools like Google Analytics etc. We need to first list out all the things we are analysing and what all ways we can analyse and that will form the ground for this idea. There is a module in this This is for the end user who takes the survey. There will be a small snippet beside his questions comparing his response to all others (just comparison) just to improve the survey experience. This feature is not needed for all types of surveys. Hence an option rests with admin to enable/disable and whether to display alongside the responses (Live as the user answers the questions) or at the end of the survey. Now let s switch to Trac-o-meter: Trac-o-meter is a module in admin dashboard for the admin to have a live tracking of the responders of the survey. This is especially important for organizations conducting the survey worldwide. A world map is displayed with green dots appearing live on it as soon as someone starts a survey. Real time data analysis can be done. The following mockup gives an idea:

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11 Idea: # 6: LS Mobile App Develop a mobile application for various platforms like iphone, Symbian etc to take the app more closely to the user and have a mobile experience Increase in mobile users and ease in the mobility is the driving factor for this idea. The idea is to develop to make LS mobile friendly. We can handle this situation by deploying the survey as a web application to suit the mobile screen. But building an application that can natively install and interact with the user mobile directly gives an added advantage. The mobile application has all the features of the LS 2.0 but the presentation framework is different. Initial plans are to develop an iphone, WIndows and Symbian/Java applications since they are most widely spread and then expand to all other mobile platforms. The UI will be mostly navigation based and Layered styled. The idea is also quite self explanatory since we are accustomed to mobile apps in our day-to-day life. All it needs is a proper plan to execute with mobile development skills.

12 Idea: # 7: Survey Games (Yummy ) Develop game based surveys that drive users to take part. Entertainment is the key that drives people and social activities in web world. Adding an entertainment touch to surveys can really boost user participation. Also if we want to analyse the areas related to gaming etc then this model can help us in a great deal. It s all about participation. The idea aims at developing survey games that drives the users. Survey games are a blend of social games that asks for the questions alongside different gaming objectives (specific to games) as the player plays them. Benefits include: Entertainment + No boredom :: Happy survey experience Integration into social sites like Facebook, MySpace etc drives participation. Besides survey responses, general user activity (time spent etc) on such gaming surveys can be analysed. A perfect way to get response from children. The back-end essentially remains the same. We need to create few templates for games and brain storm for such game ideas. An example would be a simple treasure hint game where user unlocks and answers different questions about his gaming activates. Game direction may change based on his responses. So all we need to think on social games that have Q-A touch. The questions and answers can be imported and exported b/w the game UI and backend in raw xml or a better format.

13 Idea: # 8: Interactive Help Develop interactive and in line help with the surveys. While answering the question; the users might feel that some additional information is necessary for a particular question and he also want to clarify some doubts. The idea is to develop completely interactive help for the LS 2.0 applications so that the experience of the survey takers will improve. Additional info is made available by the survey administrator using the admin panel while creating the survey. In the survey creation process, admin has an option to enable / disable help (more info) for each question. If he enables, he needs to provide additional info. Now while the user takes a survey, a link appears beside such questions, clicking which will pop-out a window displaying the additional help. Especially useful to explain definitions, jargons etc to the users who have little knowledge about it. Another model of this idea is to implement a live query (chat type session) with the survey administrator, if the end user gets any doubt while taking up the survey.

14 Idea: # 9: LS Buddy Develop an LS Buddy that guides, helps and notifies about updates, bugs etc to the end user. The need to help the app user to understand the application and also to keep him up with the latest LS news from the store has provoked this idea. Automation is the key principle here. We will develop a LS Buddy (a module) that helps the app users in every possible way. The buddy should take care of helping the user to max extent and thus making him to solve his problems himself without waiting for this support tickets to be answered. A server on our side will be present which interacts with this buddy constantly. Here are the key benefits with LS Buddy: We can get data about user experiences (points where he) so that we can improve upon the application. Bug Tracker in Buddy can submit bugs automatically to the server. It can help the user guiding him in how to use the app. It can notify the users about patches, updates etc. The user can get direct support through this buddy. and many more... A Push model needs to be implemented instead of constant polling using XMPP Protocol. This helps in reducing the server load. An overview of LS Buddy : The following mock up will give an idea of this LS Buddy:

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16 Idea: # 10: Multimedia Q-A Implement multimedia Q-A in the Survey question types. In general the end users will feel bored when they see a descriptive type of responses wherein they need to describe in a BIG text box. Here multimedia answering like voice response can play a role. The idea is to implement a module so that we can record answer to questions that require descriptive responses. (User has the option to record his answer and submit). Also we can implement a multimedia question type: a video etc., and get the response. The UI design can be imagined as a simple record button beside enabled questions.