InvesTICKations is a Citizen Science project led by Prof. Andrea Swei at SFSU Biology Department whose goal is to capture real time data related to Ticks’ activity (times and places of tick bites, tick types etc.) during usual human activities such as hiking or walking, and to allow scientists to analyze and visualize all the user gathered data.

Ticks are external parasites living by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds, as well as reptiles and amphibian.

InvesTICKations Android application allows users to capture tick encounters in real time during their normal (e.g. hiking) activities and upload the information to the central cloud server which correspondingly offers analytics functionalities to analyze, display and verify user collected data. In this project, we have designed, implemented and tested Android mobile client and related web application to offer necessary functions to implement above mentioned tasks.

• User can register for an Activity such as Hiking, Running, Dog walking etc
• User can set custom reminder for Tick encounters
• User can post an Observation while the Activity is ongoing about Tick encounters
• User can register refer to the Tick Guide
• User can view a snapshot of his/her data in the Dashboard
• User gets notified of the Admin Expert Approval option in case of any changes made by Admin on data posted
• User can edit the posted Observation

• Retrofit
• RxJava
• Otto
• Picasso
• Google Play Services(Location, Maps)
• GSON
• JodaTime
• SlidingUpPanel

The project has been supported in part by SFSU Center for Computing for Life Sciences.

Copyright 2017 Pavitra Kansara

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