GENTLE

The Graphical Ego-Network Tool for Longitudinal Examination (GENTLE) allows researchers to easily gather data about social networks. Gentle is a frontend framework in which researchers can select modular components to achieve their research goals. With every answer participants enrich and modify the visualization of their social network system - which is both intuitive and playful, as illustrated in our demo. Repeated assessments with Gentle allow for the identification of social network changes over time.

Goals:

With Gentle we had five aims: (1) To create an easy and efficient assessment of ego-networks (2) which can be completed by large samples (3) using a webpage with the user experience of an app (4) while keeping the components highly modular to optimize reusability by other researchers and (5) to enjoy the process.

Key Characteristics:

  • Dynamic Interaction with a visualization of one's ego-network
  • Possibility to return to previous questions to modify the network
  • Deeplinking - linking to specific parts of the visualization allows longitudinal re-examination
  • GENTLE runs on React and relies on D3.js for the visualization

Please cite as:

Krause, J., Jeronimus, B.F. (2019). GENTLE: The Graphical Ego-Network Tool for Longitudinal Examination. www.GENTLE.eu. University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

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