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Part 2: Your First Labfront Project

Learn how to sign up for a Labfront account, create a project in your workspace and build your customized app.

 

📖 Getting Started With Labfront Guide for Researchers


In Part 2, we'll cover how to:

  • Sign up for Labfront
  • Create a project in your workspace
  • Build and publish your customized app for participants  
 

1. Sign Up

First, you’ll need a free Labfront account. Go to app.labfront.com to sign up.
When you sign up, you'll receive a verification email. Enter the number provided in the email to activate your Labfront account.
 
Once you've successfully signed up, sign in to Labfront to be taken to your Workspace where you can add collaborators and create projects.
 
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2. Create a project

Next, you're going to build a project from scratch. To create a new project, select + Create New Project button.
 
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Give your project a name.
 
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Now you're in the App Builder, where you'll build your customized Labfront app for participants.
 
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3. Build Your App

Now we can start building the app. The details you enter here will be what participants see when they open your project using the Labfront Companion app. As you build out your project, you'll see a preview of what your customized Labfront app will look like to the participant.

Please follow the steps below to build your app:

3.1 Enter Project Details

This is where you'll write information about your project for your participants.1 About Project

3.2 Choose Device

Add Device
The next step is to choose the research device you'll use for collecting the physiological data. Click + Add Device(s).
Currently, you have the option of adding Garmin devices, Movesense devices, and Dexcom devices to collect physiological data. 
 
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Add a Garmin Device
When adding a Garmin device, you have the option of collecting physiological data from either or both Garmin Connect and Labfront Companion apps.
 
We recommend reading our article on choosing your Garmin data source or taking the short quiz below to get an idea of which data source is right for your study and what the experience will be like for your participants. 
 
 
 
You'll then choose the source you want to collect data from in the project builder. 
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Add a Movesense Device

If adding a Movesense device, you'll next have to create a Movesense Task. 

This includes choosing the sensors you want to turn on and the corresponding sampling rate.

 

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Add a Dexcom Device

If adding a Dexcom device, you'll first need to request Dexcom's approval. Learn more here.

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3.3 Setting Up Participant Tasks

Here you can create tasks for participants to complete during your study, aligning them with your defined research protocol.
 

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Event Tracking and Scheduled Tasks

Event tracking tasks enable you to record participant-marked, event-based occurrences. These remain persistently accessible in the app, allowing participants to log events at any point throughout the project. Event tracking tasks are always visible at the bottom of the Labfront Companion app.

Scheduled tasks are intended for activities that need to appear at specific times. For ecological momentary assessment (EMA), you have the flexibility to choose from fixed, semi-randomized, or fully randomized schedules.

Learn more about scheduled tasks→  

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For both event tracking and scheduled tasks, you can select from Questionnaire, To-Do, and Timer Tasks. All task responses are time-stamped and seamlessly integrated with the sensor data collected through the Labfront platform.

 
To-Do Tasks
To-do Tasks are simple tasks or activities that the researcher would like the participants to complete.  These tasks are displayed to participants within the Labfront Companion app.
 
Examples:
  • Complete an exercise activity each day
  • Do a meditation session once a week
Questionnaires
A questionnaire task is useful if you need your participants to complete one or more questionnaires during the project. 
 
Examples:
  • Mood questionnaire
  • Sleep diary
Timer Tasks
A timer task is useful if you want to specifically track the time of an activity. The participant completes the task using the app's built-in timer.
 
Examples:
  • Go for a 15-minute run
  • Do a deep breathing exercise for 5 minutes
 
Movesense Tasks

As soon as you've added Movesense as a device, you'll be prompted to create a Movesense Task. This is because the Movesense data will not be continuously captured in the background.  Your participants will need to activate the data recording through a Movesense Task on the participant app. 

 

3.4 Add Instructions and Contact Info

Finally, you'll need to add brief participant instructions and contact information for them to get in touch during the project.
 
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5 Contact

 

4. Finish Setup and Publish Your App

When you're happy with the content and all required fields are complete, click Finish Setup to publish your app! Don't worry if you need to update anything, you can edit your project after it's live. 
 
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Now that your app is published, you'll be able to invite participants to use the app to start capturing data.
 
💡 Tip : Add Collaborators

You can add research collaborators to your entire workspace or specific projects. Learn more→

 

 Walkthrough Video

 

 

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