• DocumentCode
    1710391
  • Title

    Improving data quality with dynamic forms

  • Author

    Chen, Kuang ; Chen, Harr ; Conway, Neil ; Dolan, Heather ; Hellerstein, Joseph M. ; Parikh, Tapan S.

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. Div., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    487
  • Lastpage
    487
  • Abstract
    Organizations in developing regions want to efficiently collect digital data, but standard data gathering practices from the developed world are often inappropriate. Traditional techniques for form design and data quality are expensive and labour-intensive. We propose a new data-driven approach to form design, execution (filling) and quality assurance. We demonstrate USHER, an end-to-end system that automatically generates data entry forms that enforce and maintain data quality constraints during execution. The system features a probabilistic engine that drives form-user interactions to encourage correct answers.
  • Keywords
    data integrity; probability; quality assurance; USHER; data entry forms generation; data gathering practices; data quality constraints maintenance; data-driven approach; dynamic forms; end-to-end system; form-user interactions; probabilistic engine; quality assurance; Clinical trials; Computer science; Engines; Feedback; Filling; Government; Medical services; Quality assurance; Spatial databases; Standards development;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), 2009 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Doha
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4662-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4663-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426738
  • Filename
    5426738