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Mobile devices such as iPad®s and tablets are increasingly being used to collect data in the field - at a potential client’s site, at a crime scene, or at a patient’s bedside. Because this trend is likely to continue, we present here application development techniques for increasing the quality of the data collected with a mobile tablet device. These stem directly from research conducted in user interface design, human computer interaction and data quality. We present here an overview of the literature in these areas and distill a set of guidelines for developing iPad® and tablet apps that promote good data quality design. We then show techniques specific to the iPad® for the incorporation of these guidelines and examples of each technique in use. Finally we briefly discuss the issue of increasing the accuracy of geographic coordinate data through the use of iPad®s and tablets in the field and introduce this topic for future research.

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Designing iPad® Apps that Incorporate Data Quality Best Practices

Mobile devices such as iPad®s and tablets are increasingly being used to collect data in the field - at a potential client’s site, at a crime scene, or at a patient’s bedside. Because this trend is likely to continue, we present here application development techniques for increasing the quality of the data collected with a mobile tablet device. These stem directly from research conducted in user interface design, human computer interaction and data quality. We present here an overview of the literature in these areas and distill a set of guidelines for developing iPad® and tablet apps that promote good data quality design. We then show techniques specific to the iPad® for the incorporation of these guidelines and examples of each technique in use. Finally we briefly discuss the issue of increasing the accuracy of geographic coordinate data through the use of iPad®s and tablets in the field and introduce this topic for future research.