Apple has filed for a patent regarding “Research Study User Interfaces” that involve its Research app on the iPhone.
About the patent filing
The app makes it easy to volunteer to help advance medical understanding. You can sign up for studies right from your iPhone.
The patent elates generally to computer user interfaces, and more specifically to techniques and user interfaces for interacting with research studies. Per the patent filing, users of electronic devices can provide information to research studies that gather data for use in investigations involving multiple users across multiple electronic devices. Such information can be provided to such studies using user interfaces that include one or more graphical elements adapted for use with research studies.
Summary of the patent filing
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent filing: “The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and user interfaces for interacting with research studies. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface that includes a task view with active tasks from multiple research studies. In some embodiments, an electronic device, while displaying a research study user interface, displays an indication of a problem that prevents enrollment in the research study when enrollment problem criteria are met. In some embodiments, an electronic device, while performing a hearing test, suspends the test and displays a restart affordance when the ambient noise level exceeds a threshold.”
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