Sapelli is a mobile data collection and sharing platform designed with a specific focus on non-literate and illiterate users with little or no prior ICT experience.
It supports the creation of surveys (called "projects"), composed of 1 or more forms. Forms can be entirely text-free, using the concept of pictorial decision trees, or have a more conventional appearance consisting of standard UI widgets. Sapelli supports data exchange using a highly efficient protocol that can work across SMS and HTTP.
Sapelli is being developed by the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group at University College London (UCL), with help from outside partners & contributors.
Currently the core Sapelli team consists of:
- Dr Matthias Stevens, UCL: lead architect/developer
- Michalis Vitos, UCL: developer
- Julia Altenbuchner, UCL: developer
- Ben Elliott, intern: developer
- Gillian Conquest, UCL: anthropologist, field tester
- Carolina Comandulli, UCL: anthropologist, field tester
- Dr Jerome Lewis, UCL: co-director of UCL ExCiteS
- Prof Muki Haklay, UCL: co-director of UCL ExCiteS
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