Time use studies rely on either participants keeping track of their activities or data collectors observing and interviewing participants. This is effort intensive relative to the quality of data thus collected.

In this project I attempt to create a Time Use Data collection tool that is context aware, effortless for the respondent and saves data in a research-convenient format. Samay Lekha is a smartphone application which attempts to enable entering data as easy as any daily routine for the respondent. The researcher gets an activity data-sheet along with the context of occurrence of the activity with the entries in the form of tags, consequently solving for both the researcher and the participant.

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