[Feedback] Improve Ease of Use

Dougal Phillips (Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist):

“I want to put the iPad in front of my patient, press go, and have it go through everything so I can do something else. Current iteration of RIOT platform not intuitive enough yet.

As a neuropsych, if my patient does poorly on a test, I want to infer that it’s because of some particular issue, not simply because they didn’t quite understand the instructions or the user interface or they couldn’t see the stimuli clearly or it simply timed out before they knew what they were meant to be doing.

I’m not a fan of the videos. Instead I think you should incorporate an interactive element where the patient has to respond in a certain way to progress through the instructions. That way the patient gets confident they’re responding correctly and you as the examiner are reassured they’ve understood. I use the CANTAB and it does this well. Worth checking out (but maybe discretely as they’re your competition).

Many of my patients struggle with their vision. Some of the stimuli seem unnecessarily small or have poor contrast or are a bit blurry.

While I like the aesthetic of having the test heading up the top left and the timer up the top right in a banner, by doing this, you’re leaving less room for the stimuli. The same goes for the (blank) banner down the bottom. I would recommend doing everything you can to reconfigure the layout to make the stimuli as large as possible.

I’d try piloting it on a tech-naive older adult. If you can make it easy for them to use, then it’ll be easy for the rest of us to use as well.”