A Mobile App Delivering a Gamified Battery of Cognitive Tests Designed for Repeated Play (OU Brainwave)
A large sample of app users participated in multiple, self-paced sessions of cognitive tasks and questionnaires. The “OU Brainwave” app includes gamified tasks and was designed to measure time-of-day variation in cognitive performance across the domains of working memory, spatial cognition, sustained attentional focus, split attention, and action learning. Data were collected during an 18-month period. While the app prompted re-engagement at set intervals, participants were free to complete each task as many times as they wished. Just over 1,000 users played 12 or more sessions, and just over 100 played 30 or more sessions.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
13,979 (participants)
Age at first data collection
≥ 18 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2015
Primary Institutions
Open University (OU)
Links
No website available
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Reed Foundation
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- None
- None
- None
Engagement
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