Time-use studies rely on either participants keeping track of their activities or on data collectors observing and interviewing participants. This is effort-intensive relative to the quality of the 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 that attempts to make entering data as easy as any daily routine for the respondent. The researcher gets an activity data sheet along with the context of the occurrence of the activity and the entries in the form of tags, consequently solving the problem for both the researcher and the participant.