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Note: This page is in development and may not be complete.

This section outlines how future users can use HAIRE's web-based tool and/or app, called Sociometric, to process Social Network Analysis (SNA) data. The tool is available in English, French and Dutch, and provides basic analysis - including:

• Demographic information, e.g. age, gender etc., for all participants.
• Participant connections, e.g. the average number of connections people have to others, the average number of connections that participants use for health advice, the strength of the connections and how often people interact with their connections.
• Connection types, e.g. friends, family, neighbour, work colleagues etc.

More advanced analyses can be applied to the data collected via HAIRE's SNA surveys (paper or app version). If users require more in-depth analysis, we advice collaborating with professionals that have SNA expterise. HAIRE's SNA expert was Professor Arunangsu Chatterjee, University of Plymouth, UK (email: arunangsu.chatterjee@plymouth.ac.uk).

Links to Sociometric (app versions and web-browser version) can be seen below.

Apple App Store Version: Sociometric on Apple App Store

Google Play Store Version: Sociometric on Google Play (for Android devices)

Web-browser version: Sociometric (for use on a web-browser)

The next sections cover how HAIRE's SNA tool, Sociometric, can be used.

Step 1: Language Selection and Admin Registration

In all versions of Sociometric, the first page looks similar to the image below:

As seen above, you can select the language required at the bottom left of the screen. If it is your first time using the app, someone in your organisation will need to act as an administrator and register your location. We recommend that this administrator is also the first person that conducts the SNA survey in your location, as the survey will begin once the details (for registration) outlined below are provided.

New locations can be registered via the drop-down menu that is labelled Location. Select the New location (not listed) option and the following screen should appear:

Once a screen similar to the one above is generated, the chosen administrator can enter a new location for SNA data collection. The app uses two levels to register new locations. The New location reference refers to a larger region, such as a municipality or county, and the New area reference refers to a more specific place, e.g. a city, town or village. As an example, if we were registering HAIRE's pilot site in Feock, UK, we would enter Cornwall (the county that contains Feock) into New location reference and Feock into New area reference.

After the details that are referred to above are completed, the chosen administrator will need to register their email address under Email for location. Note: no other volunteer (individuals conducting the surveys - they do not have to be volunteers) will need to enter an email address if they are collecting data for your location. The registered email address will be used to access all data for your location and the basic analysis that the tool provides.

Once an email address is entered into the relevant box, the administrator can assign themselves a volunteer number (enter this number in the Volunteer ID box) and enter an ID number for the location's first participant (enter this number in the Participant ID box). Note: more information about Participant IDs and Volunteer IDs can be found in the next sub-section. The administrator will now be ready to start the first survey for your location by clicking the Start Survey button (depicted below).

The administrator should have also received an email (sent to the registered address). This email will contain an auto-generated password that can be used to log-on to Sociometric via the boxed arrow symbol at the bottom right corner of the tool's first page (depicted below).

If you wish to create your own password, which we advise, this can be done by clicking on Forgotten password once the log-on page appears. All relevant details will be sent to the registered email address. Your registered email address and password will be needed to access your location's data and basic analysis. These details will not be required to complete more surveys for your location.

The next sub-section covers guidance on how to organise the individuals that will conduct your location's SNA surveys. An overview of how to complete the SNA survey using the app and/or web-browser version of Sociometric is also provided.

Referenties

• Guided Conversation Tips and Training, University of Exeter, University of Exeter, 23 februari 2023.
• Social Network Analysis Guidance, University of Exeter and University of Plymouth, University of Exeter and University of Plymouth, 23 februari 2023.