Release notes: Newly enhanced features (to help improve the work you do)
ExpiWell Team
At ExpiWell, we are continuously improving the platform based on your feedback. Check back here for our ongoing list of new features, created to help your workflow become easier so you can focus on what matters most.
April 2025 updates
Remove or Block Participant (Plus License): Allows researchers to manage participants out of the project, ensuring only eligible individuals remain by removing or blocking those ineligible. Find out more here.
Screener Projects (Premium License): Streamlines participant management as participants who fail the screener will not appear on the Logs page. The response data for failed participants remains accessible in the screener response files. Find out more here.
Fitbit Data Bulk Download (Sensor+ License): Allows researchers to download the Fitbit data for all participants in bulk. Find out more here.
Hyphens Only Dynamic Link Option (Premium License): Allows researchers to set up dynamic links exclusively using hyphens and without special characters, which the backend code of certain external websites may not support. Find out more here.
Bulk Media Download by Participant (Plus License): Allows researchers to download media files in bulk for individual participants. Find out more here.
E-consent Question Type (Plus License): Allows researchers to provide participants with a consent form, which they can sign and type their name to indicate consent. Find out more here.
February 2025 updates
Custom Audio Settings (Plus License): Allows researchers to specify a format, sampling rate, or bit rate for collected audio files. Find out more here.
January 2025 updates
Team Member Invitations to Existing Accounts: This feature is available in all licenses. It allows researchers to invite existing account holders to join their team as managers or viewers directly, without the need to create another secondary account. Find out more here.
Randomize Response Choices (Plus License): Allows researchers to randomize the order of the response choices for 'Single selection' and 'Multiple selection' question types. This helps reduce the likelihood of auto-selection of choices in surveys that are repeated over time. Find out more here.
Numeric Decimal Range Input for Text Questions: This feature is available across all licenses. It allows researchers to define a specific range, enabling participants to input any number with decimals within that range. Find out more here.
Multiple Submissions for Scheduled Surveys in the Rolling Schedule (Plus License): Allows researchers to enable multiple submissions for a scheduled survey in the Rolling Schedule. This provides greater flexibility in scheduling and allows participants to take self-initiated surveys. Find out more here.
Event-Triggering 'Custom Day' function (Premium License): Allows researchers to trigger the same survey daily for a specific period. This enhances the existing event-triggering functionality, which permits a single survey to be triggered on a specific day. Find out more here.
Custom Project End Message (Plus License): Allows researchers to customize the end-of-project message that participants receive upon completing their project. Find out more here.
Welcome Message for Temporary Participant Accounts (Premium License): Allow researchers to customize a welcome message for participants with temporary accounts. This message will be displayed when participants log in for the first time. Find out more here.
December 2024 updates
Question Looping (Plus License): Allows researchers to repeatedly present the same set of questions within a group or question group until the participant has finished reporting. Find out more here.
Schedule Event-triggered Randomized Push Notifications (Premium License): Allows researchers to schedule randomized event-triggered push notifications to allow for diversity in messaging, which helps reduce survey fatigue and participant attrition rate. Find out more here.
November 2024 updates
Advanced Question Block Logic with Random Selection (Plus License): This feature allows researchers to randomly select one question from a question group to display to participants and simultaneously apply block skip logic. Based on the response choice to this randomly selected question, block skip logic enables skipping from one question group to another question block or question. This approach combines diverse messaging with survey logic to help reduce survey fatigue. Find out more here.
October 2024 updates
Fitbit Intraday and Daily Integration (Sensor+ License): The Fitbit Intraday integration allows researchers to collect detailed time interval data on key health metrics throughout the day. With the upgrade to Fitbit Daily integration, researchers can now collect retrospective data before the study begins. This makes it more efficient to gather baseline data quickly and easily. Find out more here.
Random Selection within Question Blocks (Plus License): Allows researchers to select a number of randomized questions within a question block to be displayed to participants to allow diversity in messaging. Find out more here.
Mobile Charts within Surveys - Chart Question Type (Plus License): Allows researchers to create mobile charts from multiple-choice questions within the survey to allow participants to track their progress over time. Find out more here.
September 2024 updates
Apple Watch Integration (For Sensor+ License): Allows researchers to seamlessly collect health data from participants while simultaneously gathering self-reported experience sampling data. This integration provides a detailed view of participants' physical activity and health metrics, enhancing research potential in various domains like fitness, sleep, and general well-being. Find out more here.
July 2024 updates
Manage Schedule Start: Flexible Start Date, Start Day, and Intake Survey (For Plus, Premium, and Sensor+ License): Allows researchers to personalize participants' start date, control the day of the week when your survey begins, and provides an option to place intake survey outside the main study. Find out more here.
May 2024 updates
Continuous GPS location tracking (Sensor+ License): Allows researchers to monitor participant's location through the ExpiWell Platform to track their real-time whereabouts. Find out more here.
April 2024 updates
Scheduled Group (Premium License): Allows researchers to do randomized or manual selection process to determine which group or cluster of questions to present to participants based on their scheduled survey sessions. Find out more here.
March 2024 updates
Fitbit integration (Sensor+ License): Allows researchers to collect a wide range of health and fitness data, including activity level, heart rate, sleep, and more. Find out more here.
Schedule email notifications for researchers/owners of the project (Premium License): Allows researchers to schedule a notification to be sent to whatever email address you assigned based on your participant's response to a question. One example that this feature would be helpful is if your research participants are exhibiting signs of self-harm or suicidal behavior. Find out more here.
February 2024 updates
N-back Cognitive test (Premium License): Allow researchers to assess working memory and cognitive control. Find out more here.
January 2024 updates
Audio and Video automated transcriptions (Premium License): Allow researchers to download an automated transcription whenever they collect audio and videos. Find out more here.
December 2023 updates
Download Surveys in PDF format: This feature is available in all licenses. Find out more here.
November 2023 updates
Invite by User Account Email (Premium License): For projects where you already have a pre-existing list of participants and their contact emails, you may want to invite ONLY these individuals to your project. Find out more here.
October 2023 updates
One-Time Password for mobile app account creation: OTP is now required when creating a mobile app account. This improves the security and verifies if you have put the correct email address. Find out more here.
September 2023 updates
Multiple user accounts: Researchers can now share their workspace and collaborate on projects by adding additional users with a specific level of access. This is useful for research groups. Find out more here.
August 2023 updates
Group Data Collection (Premium License): Researchers can now collect data from couples or a group and yoke the notifications and surveys. Find out more here.
UNIX Timestamp: Researchers can now download notification timestamps with a UNIX format.
Slider Question Enhancement: Researchers are now allowed to choose the starting point, put some numerical values on both endpoints, etc. Find out more here
Checkbox question type -"none" option: Researchers can now put a 'none' as a choice in using the checkbox (please select all that apply) question type. When the participant chooses 'none', it will prevent them from choosing another option. Find out more here.
July 2023 updates
GDPR Compliance: ExpiWell is third-party verified GDPR-compliant foruse in EU and UK. Find out more here.
Create Temporary participants' accounts(CSV upload) (Premium License): Researchers can now create and upload a CSV file that includes temporary usernames and passwords so participants can log in without account creation. Find out more here.
Adaptive Timings of Notifications and Surveys: The ExpiWellsystem now automatically tracks and adjust the schedule even if participants changetime zones halfway through the project. Find out more here.
June 2023 updates
New Grid Question Type: The grid question type enables participants to enter their responses using a grid (e.g., affect grid). This is useful for using a single item to assess two different dimensions. Find out more here.
May 2023 updates
iOS Mobile App Ratings: We now prompt participants to share their iOS mobile app ratings result in substantially higher ratings for the ExpiWell app. See here.
Create temporary participant accounts: For Premium licenses, you will be able to create temporary participant accounts (i.e., usernames and passwords) to log participants in. They will not need to create an ExpiWell account with their emails. See here.
Backup email notifications. You can now enable backup email notifications that will be sent to participants when they do not receive their in-app notifications. See here.
April 2023 updates
Web Accessibility : We firmly believe that our website should be available and accessible to anyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability. To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. We have partnered with Accessibe to make this happen. See here for our Accessibility Statement
HIPAA Compliance: ExpiWell has achieved HIPAA compliance. Find out more here.
Enable 2FA: Researchers can enable 2FA to enhance account security. For instructions, click here.
Dynamic Links: Researchers can provide dynamic links, or links that change IDs, sessions, etc. to sync up with other websites or assessment providers. Find out more here.
March 2023 updates
Participant Log Download: You can now download participant log data. This allows you to keep a record of participant responding and notification logs to participants.
Time and Date: We have now added a time and date question for participants to respond to.
Change Project Email Contact: For Premium licenses, researchers can now change the email contact for each project. This is especially useful for researchers who are using emails not associated with their ExpiWell account to correspond with participants.
Contact us if you have any questions about these updates, or want to learn more!
September 2022 updates
Request Response: Researchers can now enable “request response” to survey questions. When participants miss responding to a survey, they will be prompted to fill in the survey question. However, unlike “forced response” participants can still choose to move forward without responding.
Contact us if you have any questions about these updates, or want to learn more!
March 2022 updates
At ExpiWell, our technology makes research easier. The following updates remove barriers to survey participation.
Simplified participant enrollment: Researchers can attach a personal identifier to their participants when sending invitations to their studies. Each invitation contains a one-time session link that onboards participants without requiring them to create an account.
Auto-generated sign-up links: Researchers can now invite participants to a study with a one-time session link without needing to provide a personal identifier.
Expanded thank you page options: Researchers can include a thank you page at the end of their web surveys where they can include a one-time session link to join a mobile study right after. This is a great option for researchers who use panel companies for recruitment.
Get in touch if you have any questions about these updates or would like to learn more about our technology. We’d be happy to speak with you!
December 2021 updates
Event triggering: Researchers can schedule actions to occur based on a survey submission, exiting a survey, or adjusting a survey window.
Response piping: Researchers can forward a response from a question into another question.
Display logic: Researchers can toggle the display of a question based on the response from a previous question.
Static survey notifications: Researchers can schedule static surveys and allow notifications to be sent for these surveys.
Contact us if you have any questions about these updates, or want to learn more!
November 2021 updates
Mobile calendar update: Researchers are now able to toggle between two different mobile app views for their participants. Researchers can have participants see the specific times for when surveys will become available each day, week, and so on or hide these time windows from their participants. You can also hide the calendar itself from view.
October 2021 updates
Live Editing and display logic now available!
As a part of this new feature rollout, we have two new updates that were a high priority to release:
Live editing: Researchers can now make changes to their schedule and have participants re-add the project to see those changes while keeping their progress.
Display logic: Researchers can now set conditions for when a question is displayed to a participant based on a response to a previous question.
We have also enhanced the experience with five additional features that were needed in the process:
Piping: Researchers can now display the response selected to participants in a follow-up question.
Loop & merge: Researchers can decide to loop over a list of questions based on the participant’s response.
Web media recording: Web surveys will support recording audio, video, or pictures directly instead of only uploading media files.
Visualization updates: Researchers can now organize their dashboard (drag and drop), select and view multiple variables at once, and view the breakdown of the selected variable.
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