Self-Charging Bicycle Navigation - Student Research

[LSE_marketer]

Hello!

I am a Masters student at LSE and a group of fellow students and I are conducting research on the feasibility of developing self-charging bicycle navigation systems. If you have a 5 spare minutes to fill out our survey, that would be wonderful!

Thank you!

Survey Link: https://lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0diKglMv9QWhBbL

 

[classic33]

It's probably asked/answered in the link, but would this require seperate euipment as a replacement. Or would it work alongside existing technology?

 

[snorri]

I didn't understand the question on the 'Which one would you buy?' pages.
Why are the prices expressed in $ on a UK cycle forum?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

You need a 'prefer not to answer' option for household income.

Since I now solely use a bike to commute, and I know all my route options well, I wouldn't buy such a device anyway.

 

[Slioch]

Sorry, I use old fashioned paper maps, so haven't completed the survey.

 

[Slick]

I would add a couple of points, Scotland is a country and you can ask as many times as you like, I'm not paying $100 for a self charging battery.

 

[Ian H]

I lost interest partway through. Seemed to be gauging how much you'd pay for certain features.

 

[HobbesOnTour]

Tried to help.....
Some people ride a bike for more than 1 reason
Some people have tried different gps devices
Self charging is not clear enough. Is that in addition to or using my existing hub dynamo?
Too many pages of similar questions
Gave up when I can decline to specify my gender but not my income.

 

[icowden]

As above, I tried the survey, but your price points are fixed too high. The differentiation between the configurations is difficult to read. You won't get any meaningful data from this survey. I would suggest that before posting the survey to the forum, you should really road test it with fellow students. Get feedback.

Also think about the data you will receive and how you want to present it. I can't see that this is going to produce anything useful. You'd be better off evaluating how important different features are, and what price point people think is reasonable.

 

[KneesUp]

Oh I do love a good bad survey! I was particularly looking forward to this one so I could find out how it is intended the device will "self charge" - I've seen solar and dynamo power used to charge devices, but a self-charging one could be the answer to a lot of problems if the technology can be up-scaled.

However I've not done the survey because:

 

[Sharky]

Need to think more laterally. No point building an expensive /complicated self charging mechanism into a cycle computer/gps device. Just build the device with removable batteries and these should be ones that can be purchased from any corner shop (AA or AAA batteries). Such batteries are cheap and have very little weight penalty, so riders can carry as many spares as anticipated for the time expected to be on the road.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Sorry, I use old fashioned paper maps, so haven't completed the survey.

Self charging as well!

 

[KneesUp]

I tried again. I got to answer some questions this time. I got as far as the question @HobbesOnTour mentions where you need check boxes not radio buttons so you can choose more than one answer. Then I got this again. At least I got to answer some questions this time - last time it said it immediately.