GENTLE: The Graphical Ego-Network Tool for Longitudinal Examination

The Graphical Ego-Network Tool for Longitudinal Examination (GENTLE) allows participants to easily gather data about social networks. Gentle is a frontend framework in which researchers can select modular components to achieve their research goals. With every answer participants enrich and modify the visualization of their social network system - which is both intuitive and playful, as illustrated in our demo at www.Gentle.eu. Repeated assessments with Gentle allow for the identification of social network changes over time.