Create New Study

This page describes a process of Study creation and properties of study

Navigate to the Studies section in SaaS. Click on the New Study button in the bottom-right corner of your screen. A pop-up window will appear.

Overview

The creation of a new Study requires the selection of several key properties, that are organized in logical steps for simplicity in the Study creation wizard:

At any moment of Study creation, you can click "Save draft" to save a draft of the Study and continue setting it up later.

Basic Settings

This step requires you to select:

Type of data that will be collected. The selected option will define the "smart camera" interface.
Name of the study.

Duration and Data Collection Frequency Settings

This step requires you to select a few options for your study.

Stages

In this step, you define how long your study will run and how it is structured. Each study is divided into one or more stages. During each stage, participants submit photos and may optionally complete surveys.

Study duration follows each participant’s local time zone, but the enrollment window (when new participants can join) is calculated in UTC. You can choose between two modes:

Equal Stages

All stages have the same duration. You define:

Number of stages — e.g., 4.
Duration of each stage — e.g., 4.
Time unit — Weeks, Days, or Custom (half-days).

Example 4 stages × 4 weeks = 16-week study

Flexible Stages

Each stage can have its own custom duration. Use flexible mode if your study requires uneven intervals between photo submissions

For each stage, specify:

Stage length.
Time unit (Weeks, Days, Custom half-days).

You can add or remove stages using Add stage.

Time Units

You can define stage duration in:

Weeks.
Days.
Custom (half-day increments). Useful for very short studies or rapid pre/post-application protocols.

Photos Per Stage

Specify how many photos participants must take in each stage.

You define:

Number of photos per stage.
Type of photos:
- Front photo.
- Front photo + Side photos.
Optional Apply product separator between shots
- Choose No separator, or photo after which you want to show the separator.

This ensures consistent data collection throughout the study.

Enrollment Window

The enrollment window defines when participants are allowed to join the study.

Set:

Enrollment duration.
Time unit (Days, Weeks, Custom).

Enrollment is calculated in UTC, while stages follow each participant’s local time.

Image and Stage Settings

This step requires you to select:

Camera for capturing the photos. There are two options:
- LIQA (Smart camera option).
- Native camera.
Image quality check (available exclusively with LIQA). When enabled, LIQA performs quality assessments on captured photos to ensure they meet high-quality standards.
Camera configuration:
- Front (selfie) camera.
- Back (main) camera.

Participant-facing Instructions Settings

This step requires you to enter information for your participants:

Study contact person details: name, email, phone
Study texts, explaining to participants critical details at different stages of the Study:
- Introduction text.
- How to take photos instruction text.
- Finished stage and finished study text.

All text fields support Markdown syntax, and there is a text preview field below text input fields.

Survey Settings (Optional)

This step is optional.

If you don’t want to include surveys in your study, just go click on the Create button.

This step offers you an opportunity to add surveys to your study, enabling collection of additional data about your participants before and after photo capturing.

Click on the Add question button.
Select the type of question.
Enter the text of the question.

Next steps

After finishing with Survey Settings (Optional), the Study is created as soon as you click the Create button.

The created Study is visible in a list of studies in Studies section in SaaS.

The created Study will be in status Not started.

To start the created Study, follow the next part of guide: Launch Study.

FAQ

How long the Study will take?

The duration of the whole study can be calculated by simply multiplying the number of stages by the duration of one stage. For example, if you have five stages and each of them lasts two days, the duration of your study will be ten (5x2) days.

How often my participants will have to take photos?

The frequency of photo collection can be calculated by dividing the length of 1 stage in days by a number of photos per stage. For example, if you have stages that last two days and the number of photos is set to 4 per stage, your participants will be asked to take photos 2 times per day.

What instructions should I give about "How to take photos?"

The basic instructions for study participants about selfie image collection are listed below. Feel free to copy them or rephrase them to suit your needs.

Remove any makeup, headwear, glasses, and other accessories.
Make sure your hair doesn't cover any part of your face.
Don’t smile; just relax your face.
Position the camera right in front of your face and look directly at it.
The face-to-camera distance has to be far enough that your face fits completely into the frame, but also close enough to make your pores and small wrinkles visible.
Take a selfie in good light, preferably daylight.

What types of questions are supported in Study surveys?

There are five types of questions you can add:

single choice
multiple choice
scale
number
text input

Every question can also be accompanied by 1 image. You can upload an image to a question by uploading the illustration file in Survey settings.

When survey questions will be asked?

You can add surveys:

before picture-taking step
after picture-taking step
before AND after the picture-taking step.

You can ask your participants to take a survey:

just once
once at every stage
once every day

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