Individual actions are both constrained and facilitated by the social context in which individuals are embedded. But research to test specific hypotheses about the role of space on human behaviors and well-being is limited by the difficulty of collecting accurate and personally relevant social context data. We report on a project in Chitwan, Nepal, that directly addresses challenges to collect accurate activity space data. We test if a computer assisted interviewing (CAI) tablet-based approach to collecting activity space data was more accurate than a paper map-based approach; we also examine which subgroups of respondents provided more accurate data with the tablet mode compared to paper. Results show that the tablet approach yielded more accurate data when comparing respondent-indicated locations to the known locations as verified by on-the-ground staff. In addition, the accuracy of the data provided by older and less healthy respondents benefited more from the tablet mode.

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回顾性活动空间数据收集的纸张和平板电脑模式比较。

个体行为受个体所处的社会环境的约束和促进。但是，测试有关空间对人类行为和福祉作用的特定假设的研究受到收集准确且个人相关的社会背景数据的困难的限制。我们报告了尼泊尔奇旺的一个项目，该项目直接解决了收集准确活动空间数据的挑战。我们测试了基于计算机辅助访问（CAI）平板电脑的方法来收集活动空间数据是否比基于纸质地图的方法更准确；我们还研究了与平板电脑相比，平板电脑模式下哪些受访者分组提供了更准确的数据。结果表明，当将受访者指示的地点与经现场工作人员验证的已知地点进行比较时，平板电脑方法会产生更准确的数据。此外，平板电脑模式还为老年人和健康状况较差的受访者提供的数据准确性带来了更多好处。