Stress is one of the most significant impediments to college student success. Our project--RECHARGE-- is designed to help student life professionals and architects design places on campus that will help students achieve better work-balance. This web-based survey asks students to indicate the rhythm of a typical day in terms of their relative chill and intensity. The survey also asks them to indicate where they are during times of peak intensity as well as where they typically are during their times of chill. It also asks what they are doing during these times. Students need effective work environments for their times of intensity, and they need places that help them effectively relax during down times.
With this information, student life professionals and campus planners and architects will have a better basis for making decisions about future campus building projects. An analog version of this type of survey is currently being used to make a case for more restorative settings at a student center at a technical university in the southern United States.
The RECHARGE interface is brief, powerful, and useful. It allows for easy data input from students and straightforward statistical analysis. The survey can also be used during student focus groups during which students would take a few minutes to input their data, and then collectively discuss the results.
We will host this initially on the web, and upon entering the link, we will direct respondents towards a introductory/permission page. After accepting the terms of taking the survey, they will be directed to the first page of the survey. The answers will be sent to a database.
Based on the "peaks and valleys" (data points), a second page of questions will be generated when the user hits submit/enter, based on the previous answers. These questions will ask more open-ended, location and user-answer specific questions.
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