PIEL Survey

Blue Jay Ventures

About this app

The PIEL Survey app is a research survey reader. This app does not deliver paid surveys. It reads surveys produced by researchers. The app is primarily designed to run "in the moment" surveys, also known as Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) or Experience Sampling Method (ESM). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method

This type of survey method delivers a more complete understanding of a participant's thoughts and feelings than traditional survey methods. This approach requires exact alarms as EMA methodology requires the survey to be answered even when the user is not currently using the device. The PIEL Survey app has been used by more than 40 universities around the world and results have been published in more than 50 peer reviewed articles.

Key features:
- Surveys are typically scheduled and prompted by notifications.
- On-demand surveys are also available.
- Multiple surveys can be contained in one survey project, allowing different questions to be presented at different times of day.
- A beginning and an end survey can be set for a survey project.
- Currently there are 4 question types; list, checkbox, slider and free text.
- Questions can also be made to branch to different questions.
- Question order can be randomised.
- The surveys will run even when an internet connection is not present.
- Users can swipe between questions.
- Results are sent in a data file by a method chosen by the user.
- The user is in full control of their data.

Ratings and reviews

Notifications don't work. I got a notification for one survey but 5 others, nothing. There's absolutely no option in the app to do anything about this (yes, notifications are on in phone settings). I'm in a study where you need to do a certain percentage of surveys, and now my percentage rate is 30 because this app can't even give me a lousy notification when there's a survey.

After I'm done with my daily survey i need to send my them to the person responsible but the attachments/documents not working. Edit: I contacted them directly about this problem and they were very fast and helpful even though we couldn't solve the problem which is probably has to do with my phone's model.

Horrible app with a poor user experience. The app constantly overrides Do Not Disturb settings. (I've seen the developer responses that say to go into the phone settings and turn off Alarms but that shouodnt be necessary). Reminders ever 60-90 secs is way too agreesive and disruptive. The surveys also continue way too late into the night. The app is hard to type open-ended answers into because the cursor jumps back to the beginning after starting typing. Sucks all around.

What’s new

Further improvements to the user experience.