Weekly Release Notes - 2024-09-17

Hello everyone,

We are excited to bring you our latest update on 2024-09-17! This release focuses on improvements and bug fixes. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new:


:sparkles: Improvements

VAS questions with decimal support

We improved Visual Analog Scale (VAS) questions in surveys to support decimal values for the minimum, maximum, step, and labels’ lower bounds. You can read more about this on our Learn website.

Multiple texts for Stroop’s neutral rounds

We improved the settings for neutral stimulus rounds of Stroop by allowing researchers to set multiple texts instead of just one. Each neutral round will use one of those texts randomly. Additionally, we added an option to ensure texts are shown an equal number of times. You can read more about it on our Stroop documentation.


:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

Expiry time countdown timer for activities

We fixed an issue on both Android and iOS apps where the expiry time countdown timer for activity sessions was not refreshing correctly. This update ensures the timer shows the correct value every time the home page is visited and refreshes at the correct intervals. It also removes expired activity sessions from the page even if the participant keeps the study homepage open.

iOS crash on empty options of single answer question

We addressed an issue causing the participant iOS app to crash when a single answer question contained an answer option with whitespace text (" "). Apparently, such answer options have their own use cases.

iOS crash on reopening surveys with multiple answer questions

We resolved an issue on the participant iOS app where reopening an in-progress survey containing multiple answer questions caused the app to crash. The crash occurred because previous answers were not loaded correctly upon reopening.

Stroop and Matrix Reasoning activities on iOS

We fixed an issue where activities like Stroop and Matrix Reasoning were not working on the participant iOS app, resulting in an error when opening the activity.


Thank you for your continued feedback and support which helps us make Avicenna Research better with each release. We hope you find these updates useful. As always, we welcome your feedback and encourage you to reach out with any comments or questions on our Community Forum or contact us directly via Email. Stay tuned for more updates coming your way!