FieldKit delivers ...
It is Easy ...
- Smooth installation
- No upfront purchase to be made. Just get it from a friend or download it from our site.
- No licensing keys, no registration bureaus.
- No seat limits. No copy restrictions.
- Built-in help
- The software was designed to make it easy for temporary workers to learn and use.
- Rich help menus, instruction frames, roll-over tips and 1-2-3 step-by-step layout so that newcomers can design new projects simply by following the numbers.
- Template-based
- All designs and functions in a project are configured by customizable templates, so no programming is required.
- Templates are Free-Ware. They can be created, downloaded from the web, shared, tested and edited without charge.
- Intelligent
defaults
- All design choices have best-practice default values, to steer the designer in the best directions for a typical study.
- Default values adapt to other design decisions as they are made - unless they have been explicitly overridden.
- Irrelevant and illogical options are disabled or hidden from view, to reduce the chance of error.
- Shortcuts
- Short-cut keystrokes are provided to speed up navigation and coding operations.
- Mistake-proofing
- A History menu allows you to back-step through earlier design steps and erase mistakes or change your mind.
It is Flexible ...
- Rich option menus
- Options are provided at all stages for Designers, Fieldworkers and Analysts to adapt the work to their needs.
- Interface design
- Click-and-drag to place controls on the interface screen and to configure them.
- A rich selection of question types, graphics and functions is available.
- Fielding modes
- Electronic or Paper-Pencil forms (the latter with a pre-formatted keypunch screen).
- Synchronized cameras.
- Self- or fieldworker administered.
- Remote- or central-locations.
- Log-in options
- Decide if and how fieldworkers and respondents sign in.
- If and how passwords are to be used.
- Multiple data-entry devices
- Data can be collected on one or many computers.
- Smooth synchronization functions make it easy to bring remote data files into a central store. .
- Customized coding protocols
- Forms are provided for creating, saving, importing and using coding templates.
- Create content analysis codes for analyzing open-ended answers and narratives.
- Create behavior-analysis codes for analyzing behavior on-site or from camera-captured videos.
It is Powerful ...
- Interactive forms
- Conditional skips, jumps, fill-ins, must-answers, terminates.
- Sophisticated rotations, text-piping and answer-validation.
- Appearance
- Extensive control over designs, colors, fonts, logos, graphics.
- Create forms with unique palettes and branding.
- Data and Report Exporting
- Get the full power of 3rd party analysis, reporting and graphing tools.
- Export data and report tables to Access, Excel and ASCII.
- Export charts to Excel.
- Cut-and-paste text and tables to word processors.
- Stimulus presentations
- Pre-recorded stimuli play while same computer records reactions - by camera (B) or keyboard (D)
- Two stimuli played simultaneously for Distractor Testing (A)
- Study reactions to live events or off-line stimuli, too, with a second, synchronized camera to record the stimulus (C).
- Video recording
- Web-cams hooked to computer to record behaviors (A,B,C).
- Up to 2 cameras at a time (C).
- For live events, one camera records event while the other records reactions (C).
- No "Lite" versions
- All FieldKits are full-powered.
- Any and all upgrades are free.
- Community power
- Sharing is easy, helpful and encouraged.
- Templates and programs are free.
- Build on prior learning.
- Information- and template-swapping websites are under development.
It is Fair ...
- GaterWare((r) billing means ...
- You only pay for what you use.
- You pay a once-per-project fee -- after data entry; before analysis
- Price based on the size and type of data you choose to analyze
- GaterWare(r) is
enabled by the DataGater(r)
billing and
control system.
U.S.Patent No. 7,272,582, DataGater, LCC.
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It is Secure ...
- Minimize exposure to the internet
- Software, templates and data stay only on your system.
- Design, data collection and analysis are off-line.
- Internet only required to make a payment
which typically takes less than half a minute.
- Safe synching
- Remote installation procedures safeguard against duplicate case. numbers
- Synching prioritizes most-recent data.
- User-proofing
- In-Field modules prevent record-deletion or template edits by field workers or respondents
- Stimulus-playing modules lock out the keyboard to prevent tampering.
- Auto-backups
- Data can be mirrored to another location.
- Removable-media can ensure against hardware catastrophe.