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Getting Started with ResearchKit

You're reading from   Getting Started with ResearchKit Enter the era of medical research using mobile devices with the help of this guide on ResearchKit!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785889172
Length 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhanush Balachandran Dhanush Balachandran
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Navigable ordered tasks

In Chapter 3, Building Surveys, we looked at creating simple surveys using ORKOrderedTask. This method is sufficient to convert most of the paper surveys to a ResearchKit app. However, the advantage of presenting a clinical survey on the phone is that we can adapt the survey based on the responses for the previous questions. For example, in a smoking habits survey, when the user answers that they does not smoke, the survey can choose not to ask how many cigarettes do they smoke per day. The ORKNavigableOrderedTask allows you to adapt the questions based on the answers the user chooses.

The ORKNavigableOrderedTask is a subclass of ORKOrderedTask and it adds conditional step navigation to the ordered tasks. We can add conditional steps in ORKNavigableOrderedTask by attaching the navigation rules to the specific steps. There are two types of navigation rules, as follows:

  • Navigation rules with predicates are represented by the ORKPredicateStepNavigationRule class. They...
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