Create COVID-19 Symptom Tracker 12-week Colour Calendar

[polly64]

Working design summary

The Pandemic Symptom Tracker Calendar (PSTC) project has been set up to develop open code for retrospective and real-time pandemic symptom tracker apps.
The main aims are:
• To generate and test calendars, and simple gamification features, to drive/ increase symptom data upload (see initial test design below).
• To support longitudinal epidemiological studies by developing code that facilitates retrospective as well as real-time symptom data collection.
• To widen discussion on privacy issues relating to the collection of personal details, and spatial data, using pandemic tracker apps.
• To bring together experts working in epidemiology/health, graphic design, citizen science/crowdsourcing, gamification, data science and data ethics interested in open symptom tracker code.

COVID App Draft 7.pdf

[tomalrussell]

See also:

• clear form for data collection https://cov-clear.com/ (no sign in required)
• modelling around contact tracing https://045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/
• data governance angle https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/data-governance/data-governance-case-studies.pdf (particularly pp37-41)

Collective learning angle:

goal must be to document the things that would otherwise be lost: perceptions at particular points in time, ephemera, information that later will turn embarrassing or contradict the official story. Some of it is boring but important: how was the response managed in country X? Others are the oral stories of projects, and why they succeeded and failed.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2020/03/pandemic-ethics-never-again-will-we-make-covid-19-a-warning-shot-or-a-dud/

[tomalrussell]

• https://covid.joinzoe.com/ in collaboration with KCL https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-symptom-tracking-app-aims-to-slow-spread-of-coronavirus

[polly64]

just tried it out- another good one to think how calendar could link in at end of survey- the most explicit i've seen about need to daily feedback. But asks for email, asks post code ( i put in first 3 digits and still worked though but didn't tell you could just give this rather than all) also asked for height, weight so a lot of personal info imagine some a lot wouldn't want to give. V easy to use

[tomalrussell]

Map of testing from Safecast, citizen science organisation that originally formed around the Tohoku earthquake / Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown

• discussion https://safecast.org/covid19/
• map https://covid19map.safecast.org/views/map

[PhantomMedic]

Dear all, Jack Kreindler here from cos-clear.com/about working with Adrian Weller / Lord James O'Shaughnessy et al. I believe we need to rally around creation of an open-standard cob-clear.com/open-standard. I have spoken to NHSx, and all the leads of the new survey and apps that have emerged. There is an element of each wanting to be the answer. Data privacy, sharing and interoperability will be lost if we don't work around standards. Very best JK

[polly64]

@PhantomMedic Yes totally agree many of symptom tracking apps ask for a mass of personal data - post code, weight, height, email address etc, - as well as data privacy issues also puts off many potential uploaders. Feedback from our colleague in China on this soon to be uploaded - also real concern around spatial tracking apps at micoolevel. Good to get ODI involved as so strong on data ethics. Our work on this site simply focuses on trying to a) collate open code being produced internationally on symptom tracking for others to look at/use and b) to create a highly visual calendar that encourages people to keep on adding data everyday or retrospectively for min 12 week period- with code able to be integrated into other apps.

[tomalrussell]

@PhantomMedic thanks for the pointer. How best can we contribute?

https://cov-clear.com/open-standard

Currently compiling lists of things here:

1. Symptom tracker Apps/Websites- in any country - with prefix for name of country or/'general' given
2. Symptom tracker Open code - open code - again with a prefix of relevant country given for each
3. Symptom tracker Papers/Articles

See also schema.org efforts around metadata standards schemaorg/schemaorg#2490

[polly64]

@louisjobst Hi Louis I have copied the draft design brief and pasted it below. Would it be possible for you to translate this into really simply draft visuals in a PDF for those wishing to help with coding using your existing font and colour scheme? Just need to show how layout could work.

Page 1 -
Main text: Title 'COVID-19 Colour Symptom Calendar '
(Top text ) 'Welcome to the COVID Colour Calendar'
Image: Our 7x12 grid coloured
(Bottom text ) '_Thank you for working with us to advance scientific research into COVID- 19'
Prompt bottom left hand corner 'Next'

Page 2
(Top text) ' Please colour the 12 week symptom calendar in for as long as you can. You can add details for any day any time'.
(Text Button centre ) ' See how it works'.
Image: Show a pic of grid half coloured and a cursor on it as through you're watching animation- on a screen.
Prompt bottom left hand corner 'Next'

Page 3
(Top text) 'Please could you give us some basic details about your household - all answers are optional'
(Questionaire text) ' How many people do you live with?'
Image/Table: Box next to above text with '3' entered
Table shown under text with Household member 1 , 2 , 3 down Column 1, Colum 2 =
Gender (at birth), Column 3 = age bracket dropdown.
(Bottom right) 'Thank you'.. continue to calendar'

Page 4
(Top text ) '_Create your calendar by clicking on any date to tell us
when you would like to begin' 'OR click here to start your celendar from today'
Image: Show image of standard calendar with a date highlighted and then your
blank 7 x 12 grid appears with dates on it below it starting from this date .

Page 5
(Top text )' Would you like to use our colour scheme?' (standard
colours appear ) or' Make your own? (animate picking colours and also say 'you can
come back and change. colours any time'.
Image: show ours to left (with a highlight colour around it and next to it a part coloured with your palette to far right with a few colours filled in
(Bottom text) Next' at bottom for page.

Page 6
(Text) Please add information to the calendar on how your feel today'
Top half of page shows 12 week 7 x 12 grid half coloured with cursor on any box and and next to it a popbox split in 2 saying saying 'No symptoms/ I/we feel fine' on one side and
'Symptoms/Possible symptoms' on other .- with 'no symptoms' one highlighted
Then second half pages shows colour added with a ' thank you please come back
tomorrow'.

Page 7
If 'Symptoms' chosen then create pop up list from from king's or LSHTM and allow
option to add for any member of household (selecting up age) and repeat
colouring/thank you as above.

Know you have a lot on would this be ok?

[louisjobst]

Hi Polly, What format does this need to be in? Does it need to be a specific size for phones IPADS Etc..?

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On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 at 10:42, polly64 ***@***.***> wrote: @louisjobst <https://github.com/louisjobst> Hi Louis I have produced a draft design brief at the top of this thread and pasted it below. Would it be possible for you to translate this into visuals for the PDF using the existing font and colour schemes? Page 1 - Main text: Title 'COVID-19 Colour Symptom Calendar ' (Top text ) 'Welcome to the COVID Colour Calendar' Image: Our 7x12 grid coloured (Bottom text ) 'Thank you very much for working with us to advance scientific research into how COVID- 19 behaves however time'. Prompt 'next' for all pages. Page 2 (Top text) ' Please colour the calendar for as long as you can. You can add details for any day any time'. (Text Button centre ) ' See how it works'. Show a pic of grid half coloured and a cursor on it as through you're watching animation. (Text bottom right = 'Next'. Page 3- (Top text) 'Please could you give us some basic details about your household - all answers are optional' i) First 3 digits of postcode. ii) Number of people in your household. Show Prompts table for 'Household member' , gender (at birth), age (include age brackets plus 'optional' year of birth) , and possibly 'General health of each (Poor, quite good, good, very good) (must include 'optional ' ). (Bottom). 'Click the household member/members you'd like to colour in data for'. 'Thank you'.. continue to calendar' Page 4 (Top) Show a calendar 'Create your calendar by clicking on any date to tell us when you would like to begin' and have option of 'start from today' Once user has chosen a blank 7 x 12 grid appears with dates on it. with the question ' Would you like to use our colour scheme?' (standard colours appear )or' Make your own? (animate picking colours and also say 'you can come back and change. colours any time'. If user chooses standard colour option move automatically to next page. If user chooses ' make my own' provide v simple instruction on how to pick from colour palette to the right and assign a colour to each square. 'Next' at bottom for page. STAGE 1- 1 Daily actions main page Page 4 12 week 7 x 12 grid with chosen start date. 'Click on a date to start adding data'. Include option somewhere on page to 'change' my colours' or to 'change when my calendar starts or finishes'. Click on first box and bring up option for 'No symptoms/ I/we feel fine' or 'Symptoms/Possible symptoms'. If 'No symptoms date box automatically colours, and has additional animated colour burst/plus ' thank you please come back tomorrow'. If 'Symptoms' chosen then create pop up list from from king's or LSHTM and allow option to add for any member of household (selecting up age) and repeat colouring/thank you as above. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AO6MGZGTCBTR5R36PWX2XT3RJR7JLANCNFSM4LQ2PKSQ> .

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[polly64]

@louisjobst no at the moment it's more concept design stage so don't worry just think of it reading on a phone.

[polly64]

@louisjobst - maybe could make note on this page somewhere- that flora @entopia raised - on inclusion of a feedback loop that could provide channel/link to government medical advice subject to type /combination of symptoms entered.

[polly64]

Thanks v much for this @louisjobst starting to look great
COVID App Draft 1.pdf. I will work on today. I think the second page needs not fill whole page so we have have a dedicated space room for explanatory /notes on how the design works on each page which i now realise we need. (The aim is to layout a stand alone app design but one from which people can fork bits of open code that are useful e.g colouring calendar, simple gamification features, hex numbers etc.

Also realise following chat with @entopia that what we need to try to do is to get people to add a mass of data on their first visit**
a) because they may not come back
b) because we we need to make most of each visit/knowledge.
c) because the more colour they add on first go/and more of the calendar they have filled, the more they likely they are to keep on going every day adding data to symptom apps
d) because u could v quickly amass a ton of retrospective data.

If the calendar was automatically set to the date of a country's first pandemic case then when u arrived would have the knowledge to colour all boxes between this date and the current data. This means that you could quickly add for example that no one had had symptoms in your household for first 14 days of data, or that v minor symptoms spread through a households during this period and then symptoms stopped. People would be properly engaged at once in the creative process - colouring-in multiple boxes - and also a lot of data would be captured even if they didn't come back again. The colour pattern would also be advanced more quickly which would then encourage longer term buy-in/ incentivise daily upload. Had sudden though also that maybe there should letters from the THANK YOU spelt out - with letters beginning to reveal themselves within the colour boxes- definitely lots that could be done with gamification once the basic structure is up.

[polly64]

Hi @louisjobst @entopia @obisargoni @tomalrussell @MeldaS @dining-liu - from now on I'll be adding all updates/edits/new design images/PDFs on the first comment on this thread as well - so people can easily follow progress.

[polly64]

@louisjobst - so for page 3 then we need calendar revised back to jan and forward to June.- months needs to be clearly visible maybe font a bit stroner. 7 x 12 colours can just repeat. Somehow we need to show won PDF what looks like if choose no symptoms til now i..e all colours instantly automatically will fill in (maybe in a streamline by line to make more interesting and indicate to continue data flow by keeping adding).

Also attach LSHTM FluSurvey questionnaire https://flusurvey.net/en/
for sample questions. Just need to associate coloured circle to each of these symptoms but would alsonadd a) excessively dry throat and b) mild cough as extras -

So need to show how can select date and click on plus button to add symptom - with plus button and text instruction. Then box with colour.

Also think we need to show how u can choose an option to ' Colour calendar by symptoms' and then colour no symptoms a pale colour and symptoms a bit stronger? Back button needs to be v clear.

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[polly64]

@louisjobst for symptom colours use pastel end not dark

[polly64]

@louisjobst actually just show calendar til end may so people can see end- can also extend if necessary

[polly64]

@louisjobst also short animation means can be advertised across social media easily. Logo 7 x 12 grid or with text?

[polly64]

@entopia @tomalrussell @obisargoni @triangle-man @MeldaS @nbarlowATI @gmingas @dining-liu might anybody be interested in looking at developing code for this so we can begin to test extent to which useful? Focus now on both retrospective and realtime collection and gamification and on code that can also be used as add-on to existing apps . Revised draft design brief up at top of thread for discussion. Imagining gamification could involve
i) instant colouring as data added as Coloring London
ii) ( with colour running animated line by line when filling in large amounts of retrospective non-symptom data
iii) colour burst when u add entry
iv) thank u! pop up when u add entry
v) notification issues but main thing is lets u add stuff anytime
vi) designed for 70+ / v few personal detail asked for as CL - only those essential for research-
COVID App Draft 7.pdf

[polly64]

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[polly64]

Hi @tomalrussell or anyone else who might be able? Just spoke to @entopia. Would it be possible to breakdown tasks coming out of COVID App Draft 7.pdf above so that those interested might be able to pick up specific bits? Know everyone has a lot on so bite size ideal and then we can at least we can start making small steps. Would be good to try and get at least something out for countries to fork open code where nothing else exists. Forgot to add on PDF we also need to include a translate button.