3 posts tagged with "Psychology"

Revel is a dating app developed for Dr. Amie Gordon and Dr. Elizabeth Bruch to study and improve romantic connections using scientific methods rather than profit-driven motives. Unlike typical dating apps, Revel aims to track and understand the full lifecycle of relationships, not just the dating stage. The app is tailored for university students, allowing researchers to gather comprehensive data and insights to benefit relationship science.

The WHIRLWell mobile app was created for Dr. Amie Gordon, who leads the WHIRLab in LSA Psychology. Dr. Gordon observed that many research studies in her field involve delivering scheduled surveys to study participants and requiring participants to complete these surveys within specific timeframes. In the past, text messaging has been used to send participants reminders to complete surveys at specified times, but the tools to do this can be both cumbersome and costly. Dr. Gordon wanted to create a mobile app that research participants could use to register for studies and then receive notifications when surveys related to these studies are available. This would additionally allow users to manage their study participation directly from within the app, as well as giving them the option to indicate their relationships with other study participants, which is especially important in studies looking into relationship development and dynamics.

The lab conducts many studies on the same population of monkeys and collects all of their data in Excel Worksheets. This works well for analyzing individual studies, but they needed a system for tracking subjects across multiple studies to compare their performance at different tasks. To help with this we created a database with a custom R library for adding and accessing census and study data. For lab members that are not familiar with R, or just want to quickly browse the data we created a website using R-Shiny.