ExpiWell: Experience sampling offline app notifications

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 found in the "Review" tab at the end of your project creation.



There are significant caveats to using this option.

- Because the notifications are all scheduled using the participant's mobile device, there are frequently device-specific issues that may create problems in the notification timings (e.g., participant changes their clock or time zone, or participant device is not compatible).

- Because the notifications occur from the device, ExpiWell cannot track notifications on the participant log.

- Because there are often unique device-issues, ExpiWell is unable to help with troubleshooting notification issues when using this option.

Given these caveats, we encourage researchers to thoroughly test this for their project and all potential devices before launching. This option can still be useful when it is known that all participants do not have access to cellular data or WIFI during the study, but from experience, it is likely that some participants will have trouble with notifications (e.g., due to having older devices or specific settings on their device).

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