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Record W1965736998 · doi:10.5555/1812530.1812571

Numeric paper forms for NGOs

2009· article· en· W1965736998 on OpenAlex

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicICT in Developing Communities
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReadabilityVariety (cybernetics)DisadvantagedData collectionComputer sciencePopulationPerspective (graphical)Data scienceArtificial intelligencePolitical scienceSociologySocial science

Abstract

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Abstract—Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in disadvantaged communities have a variety of data-collection and analysis needs, for example, for performing surveys or monitoring programs. Because much of this data collection occurs in environments with insufficient IT support and infrastructure, and among populations not always comfortable with technology, paper forms rather than electronic methods remain the predominant means for data collection. We consider the design of machine-readable paper forms for NGOs. We first examine the unique needs of NGOs that interact with underprivileged populations through interviews with eleven organizations and an in-depth investigation of one NGO’s specific form-filling requirements. These explorations led to a focus on numeric forms – forms with questions requiring responses largely constrained to numbers. We then present an experiment which evaluates how a variety of formats for numeric data would fare with users from backgrounds similar to those who might fill out such forms. Our goal was to balance the tradeoff between ease-of-use among our intended population and machine readability. Combining the results of the experiment with an analysis of machine-readability from a technical perspective, we propose the best numeric input methods for different NGO form filling requirements. Index Terms — machine-readable forms, paper forms, input methods, ICT for development I.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.625
Threshold uncertainty score0.221

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations19
Published2009
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