Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Int J Epidemiol. 2023 Aug 2;52(4):1286-1291. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyad036.
Social influence and contact networks are extremely important for understanding health behaviour and the spread of disease. Yet, most traditional software tools are not optimized to capture these data, making measurement of personal networks challenging. Our team developed Network Canvas to provide an end-to-end workflow with intuitive interfaces to enable researchers to design and conduct network interviews.
Network Canvas consists of three applications (Architect, Interviewer and Server). All applications are written in JavaScript and run on Windows, macOS and Linux; Interviewer also runs on Android and iOS.
Network Canvas substantially reduces the complexity and technical knowledge required to collect network data via three point-and-click applications. The tool has wide applicability for measuring contact and social influence networks in epidemiology.
Network Canvas is open source and freely available [networkcanvas.com] under the GNU General Public License 3.
社会影响和人际网络对于理解健康行为和疾病传播极其重要。然而，大多数传统的软件工具都没有针对这些数据进行优化，因此很难对个人网络进行测量。我们的团队开发了 Network Canvas，提供了一个端到端的工作流程，具有直观的界面，使研究人员能够设计和进行网络访谈。
Network Canvas 由三个应用程序（Architect、Interviewer 和 Server）组成。所有应用程序均使用 JavaScript 编写，并可在 Windows、macOS 和 Linux 上运行；Interviewer 还可在 Android 和 iOS 上运行。
Network Canvas 通过三个点击式应用程序大大降低了通过点击收集网络数据所需的复杂性和技术知识要求。该工具广泛适用于在流行病学中测量接触和社交影响网络。
Network Canvas 是开源的，并可在 [networkcanvas.com] 上免费获得，根据 GNU 通用公共许可证第 3 版许可。
