By Laura Strickman
| Problem/Purpose | See research topics and project proposal. |
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| Hypothesis | An online automatic form-filler will save time and effort for students and businesspeople. A working version of Datakeeper will make life easier by reducing the amount of repetitive forms needed to be completed and the number of redundant papers in file cabinets. |
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| Procedure | See code: log in, view data, edit data, create new account, send a form, log out. |
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| Materials | Mainly Nedit, a text editing program. Coding languages used include HTML, MySQL and PHP. |
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| Observations/Data/Results | My project in action can be seen here. Results of its effectiveness will be determined once it gets a team of test users, probably TJ students, possibly via the student intranet. |
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| Analysis | Datakeeper seems to be achieving its purpose so far. I've used it myself, and it's a lot easier to type in your information a single time and hit "email" for every teacher than to write out the facts by hand over and over. Potential problems: will teachers accept emailed forms? Also, more data needs to be included, since most forms ask for more than just the few facts I have so far. |
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| Conclusion | It works. Yay. The next direction I'm planning on expanding is in creating printable forms. This way administrative acceptance of Datakeeper-generated forms should no longer be an issue. |
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