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🗞 Headlines

Our goal for the Mobile Toolbox Platform is to provide a complete end-to-end solution for the use of remotely-administered cognitive and other tests by researcher teams, without the need for any study-specific technology development. A complete solution must cover scenarios across the complete lifecycle of a study, and support research teams in: 

  • Providing well documented validated measures.

  • Learning about available mobile cognitive measures and designing appropriate digital research protocols.

  • Managing collection of data from study participants, including support for enrollment, aggregate/high-level adherence tracking, and participant communications. 

  • Providing secure transfer of de-identified data to analysts.

  • Disseminating data, results, and other findings from completed studies for forms that encourage reuse by other research teams, subject to FAIR principles.

To date, our efforts have been spread across these areas, with some areas still under construction. We have developed a new assessment browser which makes detailed information about each Mobile Toolbox assessment available, and a new tool for designing and configuring and implementing protocols for remote administration in the Mobile Toolbox app. We have also invested in developing the app internal APIs that allow assessments from any developer to easily plug into the same framework. Pre-existing Sage Platform technology has been adapted to support access to study data by analysts, as well as data distribution to 3rd parties customized to MTB’s needs. These tools were piloted during Mobile Toolbox validation and norming studies starting in summer 2021, beta tested with NU clinical partners starting in early 2022, and can be made available to selected early adopters in 2023. We are continuously assessing and improving all areas of the platform based on user feedback, following principles of agile software development.


Warning

Lowlights

  • Incomplete data delivery as data analysis Beta phase ramps-up

  • Bugs and glitches throughout the study life cycle

  • Usability gaps and unsupported scenarios

    • Editing a schedule

    • Login/logout

    • Participant device switching

    • Detailed adherence reporting

  • Limited communication and visibility into status and impact

Note

Risks

  • High priority work items competing for scarce resources.

  • Infrastructural investments needed for QA, development and staging environments, and continuous maintenance.

  • No maintenance resources for product documentation updates.

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Other updates

  • As MTB completes Beta and addresses remaining work items for major feature delivery and bug fixes, the focus turns to hardening processes and scaling up:

    • QA & bug management

    • Customer Support

    • Fixing usability gaps

    • Providing self-serve access to Mobile Toolbox

    • Producing public facing documentation and materials

    • Adoption ramp-up

Tip

Highlights

Key Platform features already delivered or in development:

Researchers can:

  1. Construct study schedules including remote study bursts based on clinical visits or other triggers that have unpredictable dates.

  2. Setup schedules that have recurring repetitions and custom time windows for participants to complete assessments.

  3. Customize communications with participants through branded app messaging and pre-set notifications.

  4. Optionally collect passive background phone data.

  5. Preview the participant app experience before launching a study.

  6. Asynchronously enroll participants and manage their enrollment status.

  7. Track high-level individual participant adherence and “day in study” through the lifetime of the study.

  8. Access processed score data (full automation complete by Q1 2023).

  9. Provide study metadata

  10. Engage in a BETA for custom survey authoring (coming Q2 2023)

Participants can:

  1. Freely download the public Mobile Toolbox app from either the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.

  2. Securely login with a de-identified code.

  3. Optionally receive notifications and reminders.

  4. Automatically receive scheduled assessments per researcher instruction.

  5. Can choose to skip, pause, and continue assessments at any time.

  6. Receive practice instructions for each assessment.

  7. Actively opt-in or out of background data collection, review privacy information at any time, have access to general study and IRB contact information to request withdrawal.

Analysts can:

  1. Access all item-level data in Parquet format as well as post-processed scores as spreadsheet downloads. Analysts can access these resources using R, Python, or web clients.

  2. Access continuously updated data (completion in Q1 2023)

  3. View aggregate statistics and user activity metrics per study.

  4. View documentation on these tools.

- March 2023

  1. Met criteria for Go-ahead to restart MGH study. Data collection has started and is at 100% fidelity

  2. Fixed in production edge scenarios with schedule delivery and sign-in for mobile clients

  3. Crashlytics monitoring deployed on iOS

  4. Progress on defining weekly release cadence and criteria. Will finalize process over the next two sprint cycles

  5. New devops viz tool identified an issue with Parquet exporter. Issue is now fixed and in code review

  6. Baseline QA metrics defined. Next step to socialize, signoff and build dashboard

  7. Centralized issue tracker up and in-use for active triage. Still needs refinement.

Warning

Lowlights - March 2023

  • Reports of PSM issues

Note

Risks

  • Need to close on background recorder decisions otherwise PSM issue is not addressable

Info

Other updates

  • manual onboarding process is documented

  • have received new binaries from Monash group

  • server work is complete to support growth of assessment library


📈 Monthly summary


What are we working on?

This month

April 2023 our focus is on…

User-facing updates

  1. completing computation of the Response Time recalculation for shape-color sorting.

  2. completing detailed adherence report visible in the UI that shows completion status, skipped status, and completion timestamp

Infrastructure work

  1. Finalize reqs and implementation plan for schema refresh to support upcoming ICAR measure validation studies.

  2. Publication of internal viz tools (Jupyter notebook) for data monitoring

  3. Updates to batch processing for 24hr scoring

  4. Add data pipeline changes to release notes

  5. Setup Jira Service Desk metrics

Current issues and resolution

This month we are addressing….

  1. Data re-processing of data ‘stuck’ in parquet queue, and identify other failures and fixes needed.

  2. Triage remaining 2-5% of pipeline failures


📈 User facing feature requests


Feature

Description

Complexity

Priority

Delivery forecast

Login/logout capability

Allow participant and preview accounts to logout and login so that data state is retained and cache i s properly cleared without deleting and reinstalling the app

high

21

TBD

Editable schedules

Allow changes to a schedule after a study has been launched

high

12

TBD. New studies can currently be manually constructed to have more flexibility. Existing studies will not be editable. New work will ensure that ALL new studies will automatically have more flexibility.

Spanish language

Provide app and assessments to run studies ALL in english or ALL in spanish

medium

2

summer earliest Fall 2023

Self-service account setup

Allow public users to onboard to Mobile Toolbox to explore, and to launch studies with a verified identity

high

1

target late summer 2023

Self-service access controls

Allow Study Admins to invite users and have granular control over what team members can see and do with PII and study data

high

1

target late summer 2023

Custom Survey Authoring

Researchers can collaborate and construct custom survey questions that can be delivered to participants as part of their schedule of activities

high

2BETA

in Q2 2023Deprioritized. Target beta in Q3/Q4

Detailed Adherence completion reporting

Study Coordinators can see the details of completion status and date for every assessment administered

medium

1

Q1 2023

Adherence Alerts page

Study Coordinators can view alerts when participants fall below adherence thresholds or other events

medium

2

Q1 Q2 2023New assessments

Availability of additional assessments (various)

medium

2

Varies. Several new assessments already integrated and in queue for May 2023

Schema refresh

Update the schemas of assessments to optimize data processing

medium

2Q2 - TBD

pending implementation plan for schema refresh. Ask is to complete for May/June start of clinical study

Automated scoring

Scores are automatically processed on-device or on a daily basis to keep up with ongoing data collection

medium

1Q1

2023V1 complete

Public website updates

Include suggested language for grant submissions, sample data, FAQs, About Us bios, more detailed assessment information

medium

12

Q1 and Q2 Q3 2023

Customer support helpdesk

Ticketing and tracking system and knowledge base to scale up responses to issues reported by coordinators

high

2

Q2 Q3 2023

Product documentation

Update and publish product documentation

low

3

May 2023

Crashlytics tuning

Improve crash and log collection from the mobile App to more quickly characterize and respond to bugs.

medium

2

Q2 2023

Data samples

Provide data samples so potential users can demo the app and explore data output without having to launch a study

low

3

Q1 Q2 2023

Demographics upload UI

Study Coordinators can upload demographics metadata so it can be automatically incorporated into data processing and analysis

medium

3

TBD

🏁 Features by quarter 2023

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