1. Adrian Osmond: aco@ecs.soton.ac.uk
LifeGuide
From the perspective of the other side of the team
Adrian Osmond:

2. The 3 Components of LifeGuide
Graphical Authoring Tool
Build pages “like PowerPoint”
Logic Scripting Language
Allows tailoring.
Server (& VRE)
Intervention player, Data storage, Community functions

3. The Graphical Authoring Tool

4. The Graphical Authoring Tool
Click, drag and drop interface
Change styles – fonts, colours…
Themes / templates
Add text, buttons, images, videos, interactive components, graphs

5. The Graphical Authoring Tool
Technical Details:
Eclipse RCP
Embedded Mozilla Firefox
Jetty
JavaScript
QTI XML
XSLT
Windows & Mac

6. The Scripting Language
Allows interventions to be adaptive, delivering tailored advice to participants
Allows stratification and randomisation to be performed simply
The most complicated part of intervention authoring, so…

7. Script Editor Features
Syntax highlighting
Error underlining
Code auto completion

8. The Server Grails / Java based intervention player
Uses XSLT to transform QTI XML to XHTML

9. The Server
Web front end to allow authors to run trials of their interventions
Queues and sends s and SMS messages
Stores data to be exported later (Excel)
Also packaged inside Authoring Tool, allowing on-the-fly intervention preview