Numeric paper forms for NGOs

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 406-416

  Singh, Gursharan ^a   Findlater, Leah ^b   Toyama, Kentaro ^a   Helmer, Scott ^b   Gandhi, Rikin ^a   Balakrishnan, Ravin ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

ICT for development; Input methods; Machine readable forms; Paper forms

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; EASE-OF-USE; FORM FILLING; IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION; INPUT METHODS; MACHINE READABLE FORM; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUMERIC DATA;

EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MACHINE DESIGN; PAPER; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

BUSINESS FORMS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEGIBILITY; MACHINE DESIGN; SURVEYS;

EID: 77951592477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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