Activity Types
Activities are the most important component of a Recollective Study, as they represent the key source of data collection from participants.
An Activity is a collection of related questions or exercises called Tasks. Think of an Activity as a mini-survey, and its Tasks are the individual questions within that survey. Activities can be completed by participants in real-time (synchronous), over many hours and many days (asynchronous), or can also be used by administrators for analysis only (External Content).
When adding Activities, you will be presented with five Activity types to choose from:
Standard Activities
Journal Activities
Journal Activities differ from Standard Activities as they allow participants to make multiple submissions to the same series of Tasks against a predetermined schedule or timeline. For example, you might set up a Journal Activity that requires participants to document their breakfast eating habits every day for one week, or do a shopping diary to be filled out each time they visit a particular store.
Live Group Chat Activities (Focus Groups)
Live Group Chat Activities enable you to build a chatroom or focus group-style Activity that opens at a specific date and time. Live Group Chat activities can support text-based chat as well as live video. During the Activity, participants can interact directly with each other and the moderator(s) via video, typed messages and live polls.
Live Video Interviews (IDIs)
Live Video Interview Activities allow you to host 1:1 video meetings between a participant and an Analyst or Moderator. Administrators can either schedule all meetings themselves or set a scheduling window within which participants are able to schedule their own meetings.