AMBIENTE DE SUPORTE AO USO DE FORMULÁRIOS DINÂMICOS EM APLICAÇÃO MOBILE PARA COLETA DE DADOS CIENTÍFICOS

Abstract

This work presents the creation of a computational environment for the collection of sci- entific data. The use of mobile applications for scientific data collection is widely used today, but with a broad scope of research, the development of new applications would be impractical, so that custom applications do not have standardized data availability in any medium. For this, this work presents the solution to these needs that the researchers need, with a mobile application that allows the researcher to perform their research without the need to elaborate a new application for a specific research, besides having the availability to transfer the data collected for any database that the researcher uses, using the struc- ture of the files standardized with the metadata described in this work. For this purpose, this work has utilized Xamarin Cross-Platform development techniques for application development, metadata concepts, and interoperability to create transfer file patterns and software engineering concepts for the design of a transfer architecture between hetero- geneous systems. To validate the usability concepts, the application demonstrated good results that satisfy the usability and ergonomic aspects of the mobile applications, as well as the validation with real cases of biological research in the natural fields of collection of data on animals and plants of ICMbio. Concluding that proposing an environment that communicates with a standard collection application is feasible, so that it behaves well in different types of search.