We are happy to announce another huge update to the movisensXS Platform. 

This update is all about the participant experience.
Please read the following changes carefully!

The update of the movisensXS app (Version 1.1) will happen tomorrow, 02.12.2016.
As always, if you are running a productive study, if possible, please disable auto-updates.

Participant Feedback about the Study Process

If you define a start and end date for a participant in a study the participant now gets feedback in the app showing him when the study will start and when it is ended. 

This also helps to see if a smartphone is not performing correctly.

Improved margins when using images together with scales

When you show images e.g. above a likert scale with a "Multi Item Screen", the image is aligned to the buttons. We improved the margins of all items to line up nicely in a "Multi Item Screen".

User feedback when starting a large study

We improved the startup speed of a study tremendously. But apart from that we also included a loading screen if the start of the study takes a bit on older devices with large studies. It looks like the following (this is in slow motion).

Starting a Study in Slow-Motion

But there are even more movisensXS app improvements

• Improved barcode scanner
• Improved random time trigger to work in cases of restart
• Decreased amount of permissions on startup
• Improved margins for images and likert scales
• Improved User Interface with consistent card buttons
• Added Android Nougat (Android 7) support
• Added indicator for study state at homescreen
• Added a possibility to send log information to developer
• Added indicators in WebViews
• Prevent user from double clicking buttons
• Back button now usable in informed consent
• Automatic cancelling of concurrent alarms
• Fixed various bugs

And some improvements of beta features

• Added sampling nodes (notifications, sampling running, check mutable value action)
• Added new items (offline video and timer)
• Fixed null results at cognitive library items
• Added movisens sync service to gather data from triggerapp

As always, let us know if you have any questions. Please spread the word and tell your colleagues about our great new features.

This update is all about privacy and improving the experience for the participant. Please read the following changes carefully!

The update of the web portal will happen on Monday on 04.06.2016 at 22:00 o'clock (UTC+1, Berlin time zone). There will be a planned downtime of about 30 minutes. 

The update of the movisensXS app (Version 1.0) will happen in approximately two weeks. The beta version will roll out tomorrow. As always, if you are running a productive study, if possible, please disable auto-updates for the movisensXS App because the new user interface of movisensXS may confuse your participants. This is especially important on Android 5+ smartphones with activated "Lock Other Apps" functionality, because running studies are stopped when the update is installed automatically and a new permission has to be granted to continue the study.
This version is the last version supporting smartphones with an Android version below 4.0. If you use a older smartphone please check if an Android update is available.

Informed Consent

We added an informed consent start screen to the movisensXS app. When a participant starts a study he has to review and accept the following:

• An informed consent that you can define for your study in the study settings (optional).
• An informed consent from movisens, that gives us the approval to process the data of the participant. We also allow participants to opt-out of our app crash reporting provider Crashlytics.
• A screen that lists all the required permissions in your study. This gives the participant transparency about the data that is acquired during your study. On Android 6 and above the participant has to grant some of these permissions manually and we guide the participants through the process of granting them so your study can run smoothly.  

The following shows the new behavior when a study is started:

This behavior only applies to studies that are not yet coupled to smartphones. Already coupled studies or studies with an older app do not show these screens, except for Android 6 Smartphones.

Better Alarm and Forms handling

From the home screen a participant can directly take an alarm or continue a form. These are shown as cards on the home screen.

Improvements of the web portal

• More and more private smartphones of participants are used. This is why we removed the "Smartphones" tab in the web portal. We no longer store any device specific ids. Please backup your device IDs if you need to know which participant used which Smartphone.
• The results table changed: The "Device" column is removed and the columns "Trigger_date" and "Trigger_time" are added. This allows checking when an alarm was issued and when a participant started to complete a form.
• We also updated our terms of service to improve the privacy even further. The new terms of service will be available after the update here: https://xs.movisens.com/tos
• An updated item format gallery with new images will be available after the update:https://xs.movisens.com/help/forms#item_formats

But there are even more movisensXS app improvements

• We added support for Android 6 Marshmallow (permissions and alarms)
• Phone numbers are now hashed by movisensXS generated identifier (hashes stay the same per participant).
• Minor UI changes for the toolbar buttons
• Changed look and feel of button pressed to new card design
• Added new lock other apps mechanism to support newer devices
• Overflow menus will now be shown on every device
• Back button can now be used to go back in message view
• Retry upload of results automatically if no internet connection was available.
• Added imprint and terms of service in settings
• Added privacy enhancements for Android 6 (no autobackup allowed)
• Added new barcode scanning
• Added SART cognitive test
• Fixed bug where photos and videos aren't deleted after upload to server
• Fixed bug where movisens is restarted after an app receives an update (now only when movisensXS receives an update)
• Fixed bug with battery low condition
• Fixed back button wasn't disabled bug when allowBack was false
• Fixed bug with whitespaces in mutable value names
• Fixed autocorrect bug on motorola razer
• Fixed validation of IntentAction
• Fixed emoticon problems in free textfields
• Fixed scrolling behaviour on large textitems
• Fixed coupledialog
• Fixed memory leaks
• Changed to Google maps v2
• Changed to Google Play Services 8.1

And some improvements of beta features

• Participant defined time triggers can now be repeated and saved as mutable items
• Added Geofence Trigger
• Optimized location algorithm for new Google Play Services

Yeah, what a release. As always, let us know if you have any questions. Please spread the word and tell your colleagues about our great new features.

New Android version coming

Other upcoming app Improvements

• Introducing participant friendly notification system for alarms. These alarms can now also be muted by setting the phone to silent mode.
• Participants can now configure the alarm sound and font size
• Beautiful new user interface for all android versions
• Added new participant onboarding
• Participant can couple with a study by clicking on a link
• Longer texts can be shown in the random word item
• Removed possibility to select old files in multimedia items
• Update to google play services 7.5.0
• Optimization for Android Lollipop and M
• Fixed bugs with music player on HTC One V
• Improved random time triggers
• Added possiblity to let the participant define a trigger time
• Compatible with Android Version 2.3+

1. Upload all results from the device
2. Update the movisensXS app to version 0.6.3412
3. Synchronize your study

Messaging between you and your participants

movisensXS has now a build-in messaging support that lets you stay in contact with your participants during the study.
This can increase the compliance. All you need is a SIM card with an internet data contract.
Messages to/from participant count as 1 item result and are shown in the billing.

Improved Date and Time Pickers

On devices with Android 3.0 or higher new date and time pickers are shown, that are easier to use. With swipe gestures the date and time can be defined very quickly. Coming with the movisensXS Library v3357 is is now possible to select a default time and date. This is useful if your participants have to specify a time that is far away from now, (e.g. at night, fill out when you plan to waking up at the next day).

App Improvements

• Fixed problems with overlaying keyboard in full-screen mode
• Improved coupling, sync and upload process
• Fixed problems with multimedia items on Android 4.4
• Added media players to multimedia items and PlayAudioItems
• Closing missed alarm-screens
• Fixed issue with CDMA phones
• Lots of stability improvements
• New error reporting, which helps us to make the movisensXS app and server even more robust
• Preparation for future awesome features

Server Improvements

• New deployment mechanisms, allow us to make faster updates with a smaller downtime
• Stability improvements
• Updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to reflect the use of third-party services
• New logging and monitoring systems helps us to identify problems faster
• New customer support system that allow us to respond to your questions even faster

Improvements

• Improved stability (an Android bug caused a crash on some devices after ~1000 items have been answered).
• Moved all data to internal storage (requires enough internal storage but increases reliability).
• Fixed auto start after reboot feature on Nexus devices running Android version 4.2.2. 

1. Upload all results from the device
2. Update the movisensXS app to version 0.5.2526 
3. Synchronize your study