Create Mobile Charts that Show Participant Progress over Time

When conducting your experience sampling method (ESM) and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) project, you may want to create mobile charts for participants. The charts display data that participants have entered over time. In other words, it shows participants their own responses over time in a graph or chart in the ExpiWell mobile app. You can specify the axes and type of chart participants can see.

The mobile charts are especially useful in the following scenarios:

1. Participants to track their progress over time
   
2. Participants to learn about their own trajectory
   
3. Ecological momentary interventions (EMIs) where self-knowledge is helpful

The following steps show how to create the mobile charts that participants can see.

Step 1: In the survey builder, toggle the “Score” option for the questions you would like to include in the charts.

                Note: Only Multiple-choice question types with scoring can be used for the chart options.

Step 2: Click on the three horizontal dots to the right of “+ Question” and select “Feedback.”

Step 3: Click on the “+ Chart” option.

Step 4: Label the chart, choose the number of days, and the range of values. Choose whether you want the chart to display the mean (i.e., average score) or the sum (i.e., total score).

Step 5: Click on “Select Questions” and the scored questions you can choose from for the charts can be seen on the left.  

You can choose the questions for scoring as shown below.

Step 6: Click “Done” on the lower left of the chart box and then “Done” on the top right of the chart box.

Step 7: And you’re all set! Choose to add more charts or exit the survey builder to continue with the rest of your project set up.

You can check out the chart on the ExpiWell mobile app.

• Related Articles

• ExpiWell Mobile Apps for EMA and ESM

  ExpiWell uses native iOS and Android mobile apps to deliver surveys and notifications that researchers schedule. These are free and available for participants (and researchers) to download. We use native mobile apps because these enable more powerful ...

• Changing Project Email Contact

  To enhance communication between participants and researchers, participants will be able to contact researchers directly when they view the project on their ExpiWell app. When clicking the email contact button, an email will be created that is based ...

• Overview of ExpiWell for Experience Sampling and Ecological Momentary Assessments

  ExpiWell is a software platform created and designed by top researchers who conduct Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM) and Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) and can be used for any type of ESM, EMA, and longitudinal assessments. Our goal is ...

• How to Create a Community

  1. Click "Communities" to view all of the Communities you have created. 2. Then, click on the "New" button and provide the name and description of the community. 3. As the creator you are able to choose if your community members will be anonymized or ...

• Offline Notifications

  ExpiWell offers the feature of "Offline Notifications" where participant notifications are all scheduled from the participant mobile phones. This can be especially useful when participants do not have access to cellular data or WIFI. This option is ...