Aminu, Mohammed (2010) Design and Implementation of SMS Based Public Opinion Polling System. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The collection, analysis, and interpretation of public opinion play invaluable role in the development of socio-economic and political situations of a society. Different techniques can be used to collect public opinion polls including personal interview, voice call, Internet, post etc. However, most of the techniques stated above have a combination of one or more the following short comings: limited area coverage, high cost, difficulty of use, availability, homogeneous social strata, very high response time etc. On the contrary, the newly emerging and rapidly expanding mobile wireless technology enables anytime anywhere communication. Recently, there is the high expansion in the use of SMS technology, reduction in the cost of bulk SMS, and reduction in the cost of mobile subscription fee (high penetration). These make the use of mobile phones to collect public opinion an optimal solution and create an enabling environment for the widespread development of SMS bases applications and services. In this project work, we made use of the SMS technology to develop a SMS based Public Opinion Polling System (SMSPPoll). The system uses a GSM modem attached to a computer to send and receive messages to and from respondents. Since the GSM modem is considered as one of the communication ports in the computer system, the technique utilize the I/O port APIs provided by the .NET framework. SMSPPoll is capable of composing questions, sending questions as SMS messages to respondents, accepting SMS responses from respondents, summarizing poll results and presenting the results in tabular and graphical formats. The application also enables to print/export results as appropriate.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mobile phone based opinion polling; SMS based opinion polling |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2018 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2018 13:17 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4749 |
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