Author Archives: erin

Server Struggles

Sara and I have been spending the past couple of weeks waiting on our IRB proposal revision to be approved again and trying to work with the server we have set up to handle SMS communication. We are able to …

Server is Up!

The server that will be used to track, send, and receive the SMS messages managed by Twilio is finally up and running! After some debate over the best place to host the server and what technologies to use, not to …

Submitted IRB Proposal

Things are really starting to pick up with the TIDE project. Sara and I completed the Conflict of Interest and IRB training and have submitted our first IRB proposal. The IRB proposal is for our next workshop, which will give …

Pre-Study Workshop

This week the TIDE researchers hosted a pre-study workshop to gauge interest and get university student feedback on plans for a mobile application and the SMS survey. We received a lot of positive feedback and even developed a preliminary idea …

IRB Training Complete

The TIDE team has officially completed IRB Training so we are gearing up to submit our research proposal for approval. TIDE is also getting ready for it’s second pre-study to test our concept and research methods. We have thought through …