A Questionnaire System with an Authentication Framework Considering Online Activities of Users

It is difficult to distribute online questionnaire adequately to those subjects who satisfy requirements of investigations. In addition, low questionnaire response rates, because of factors such as overlooking request emails and noncooperation to answer the questionnaires, sometimes annoy the investigators. Now that today’s organizational systems adopt a unified authentication framework of which logging function stores authentication records of users in federated systems, the possible solution for these problems arises by utilizing the log data and adding the questionnaire process to the framework. The present paper proposes a flow controlling mechanism arranged in a major unified authentication framework and describes how to utilize log data on the framework to select target persons for questionnaires and increase the response rates.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Seki, Y. , Matsuura, K. , Sano, M. and Ueta, T. (2018), A questionnaire system with an authentication framework considering online activities of users. IEEJ Trans Elec Electron Eng, 13: 1071-1072. doi:10.1002/tee.22665, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/tee.22665. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

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