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Reducing Study Coordination Burden in Remote EMA Research: Workflow Automation, Participant Engagement, and Payment Management with ExpiWell

Running remotely managed studies often requires significant manual oversight - from reminding participants of tasks to tracking adherence, coordinating compensation, and troubleshooting app issues. In this presentation, Dr. Louis Tay, co-founder of ExpiWell, focuses on evidence-based workflow design to reduce coordination burden and increase study efficiency using ExpiWell, a HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant mobile research platform used by more than 6,000 researchers worldwide. 

In this 50-minute presentation, Dr. Tay will review automated EMA and survey scheduling, dynamic branching workflows, wearable and smartphone sensor integrations, real-time compliance dashboards, streamlined participant communication tools, and built-in participant payment processing that simplifies incentive management at scale. Attendees will learn practical strategies to maintain high-quality data collection with minimal manual monitoring, enhance participant engagement, and support reliable, scalable remote study operations suited for study coordinators and faculty.

Louis Tay, Ph.D, is the co-founder of ExpiWell, the William C. Byham Chair Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Purdue University and the director of WAM-Lab. His research merges substantive interests in well-being, character strengths, and vocational interests with methodological expertise in measurement and data science.

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About MCN at U-M: The Mobile Coordinator Network (MCN) is a discussion group that develops and shares resources to increase the efficiency, rigor and reproducibility of health studies utilizing mobile devices at the University of Michigan. MCN is open to U-M study coordinators who are working on or planning health studies using mobile technologies. 

About ExpiWell: ExpiWell originated as a mobile-first solution developed by academic researchers seeking a more reliable and convenient method for conducting complex, remote studies, including EMA, ESM, and JITAI. Over a decade later, ExpiWell now supports thousands of research teams worldwide with an integrated platform for mobile data collection, automated study workflows, real-time monitoring, participant messaging, and integrated incentive payments. Our goal remains the same: to make high-quality research easier to run, scale, and sustain.