Mobile Toolbox

Running cognitive measures on participants’ own phones? Keep them on one device across timepoints, analyze at group level, and budget more care for memory than for speed. Remote trades supervision for reach. #RemoteAssessment #StudyDesign #DigitalHealth mobiletoolbox.org

“Validated for remote use” should mean something specific. For Mobile Toolbox it’s three studies: study phone unproctored in a lab room, then your own phone anywhere, then the whole thing again two weeks later. Each removes one layer of control. #Psychometrics #DigitalHealth

Up to $4,000 for grad students, postdocs and early career researchers with a project using Mobile Toolbox. Rolling review, no deadline, fast enough to fit a dissertation timeline. #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFunding #DigitalHealth [email protected]

Eight Mobile Toolbox measures, one map: vocabulary, spelling, inhibitory control, set shifting, processing speed, working memory, associative memory, episodic memory. Each parallels an NIH Toolbox® test, adapted to a phone screen. The full set: mobiletoolbox.org

Test spotlight - Arranging Pictures: 14 pictures appear one at a time, then scramble. Put them back in order. They’re deliberately not a story, so there’s nothing to reason out. Then you do it again. #EpisodicMemory #RemoteAssessment #DigitalHealth mobiletoolbox.org

Remote cognitive assessment’s hard part was never the tests, it’s the enrollment, scheduling, follow-up and data plumbing. Mobile Toolbox builds that into REDCap and MyCap, so scores land in the project you already run. #REDCap #MyCap #RemoteAssessment

Test spotlight: a key pairs 1-9 with nine symbols. Tap the matching number, 90 seconds, 144 items. A hundred-year-old coding task that transfers to a phone almost unchanged. #ProcessingSpeed #RemoteAssessment #DigitalHealth Number-Symbol Match: mobiletoolbox.org

Test spotlight: Sequences flashes letters and numbers one per second, then you tap them back, letters alphabetically, numbers ascending. Grows until you miss three in a row. Working memory, on your own phone, about 5 minutes. How it works: mobiletoolbox.org

M4 Workshop 2 on Item Response Theory starts today, three Thursdays left. And ACRM opens Monday in DC through Oct 16. Busy week for anyone working in rehabilitation outcomes. #ItemResponseTheory #Rehabilitation #ACRM2026 M4 registration: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Two days. M4 Workshop 2 on Item Response Theory starts Thursday Oct 8, four sessions through Oct 29, free and grant-funded. #ItemResponseTheory #Psychometrics #ResearchTraining Register: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Test spotlight: Word Meaning is a synonym test with no pictures and no audio, so it works anywhere a participant happens to be. Correlated .70 with NIH Toolbox® Picture Vocabulary in person, .67 remote. #ReceptiveVocabulary #DigitalHealth #Psychometrics

Test spotlight: Arrow Matching. 50 trials, 2 seconds each, four distractor arrows pulling you the wrong way. Inhibitory control, on your own phone. #InhibitoryControl #ExecutiveFunction #DigitalHealth Learn more: mobiletoolbox.org

One week out. M4 Workshop 2 on Item Response Theory begins Oct 8 and runs four Thursdays. Free, grant-funded, open registration. #ItemResponseTheory #Psychometrics #ResearchTraining Sign up: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Test spotlight: Faces and Names. Twelve people, twelve names, then recall the face, the first letter, and the match. Associative memory, on the participant's own phone. #AssociativeMemory #DigitalHealth #CognitiveAging Learn more: mobiletoolbox.org

Grad students, postdocs, and early career researchers: up to $4,000 to support your project using Mobile Toolbox. Rolling review. #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFunding #DigitalHealth Details and applications: [email protected] | mobiletoolbox.org

Does smartphone cognitive testing work with kids and teens? A feasibility study in Child Development put Mobile Toolbox to the test. #MobileToolbox #DigitalHealth #ChildDevelopment Young et al. (2024), open access: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Executive functioning and processing speed predicted global cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (Haran et al. 2025). Mobile Toolbox measures both remotely: Shape-Color Sorting and Number-Symbol Match on the participant's own phone. #AlzheimersResearch pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Test spotlight for #WorldAlzheimersDay: Mobile Toolbox Spelling. Dictated words typed on the participant's own phone, adaptive item selection. Almost no age effect across adulthood, which may make it useful for estimating premorbid functioning. #MobileToolbox #DigitalHealth

Test spotlight: Faces and Names. Twelve face-name pairs learned, then recognition and recall after a delay. Derived from FNAME, which research has linked to amyloid burden in cognitively normal adults. Runs on a participant's own phone. #MobileToolbox #Memory #DigitalHealth

M4 Workshop 1 is underway. Social-Behavioral Influences on Aging, today and tomorrow, 9AM to 12PM CST. Missed it? Item Response Theory starts Oct 8 across four Thursdays. #MobileToolbox #Aging #HRS #HCAP #ResearchMethods