Depending on how you got to VIVID, you could get a long onboarding survey, or a short one. As a part of our full onboarding process, we ask two types of questions: Questions about the impact of our app, and about your background and lifestyle.

Impact evaluation

We started the VIVID project because we believe it's a unique opportunity to help others as much as we can - we believe that there aren't good enough solutions that help working in a practical way for minimizing gaps between us and our ideal selves. We wish to find out which courses of actions can help improving the lives of our users the most, for instance, by understanding what are the properties of the plans that make the biggest positive change, and on people from which backgrounds. This understanding will enable the platform to be able to provide anyone with the most impactful recommendations for what they wish to achieve. In this future, this could also serve as the basis of an important personalization capabilities - although we won't apply such capabilities without intentional opt-in from your end.
This is the rationale behind the questions on how satisfied are you with different aspects of your life and how you've been feeling lately.

Lifestyle questions

When trying to measure the positive impact of our product, we have to keep in mind the our impact varies from one person to another. This is true not only because everyone uses our product differently, but also because people are very different from each other. We might realize we're only able to help young people, which might mean we need to make our product more accessible to older people. We might find out that we're only being able to help people with lots of free time, which might mean we need to adjust our product for for more people who have minimal time on it.

We draw conclusions from the big picture of our data, not from a personal profile

In order to understand how much positive impact we have on thousands of people, we can't, and have no reason to, search for data of a specific individual. Not only that we don't perceive this as morally acceptable behavior, we also can only reach to conclusions from events that happened to a large number of users. We ask questions like: Among the people who persisted in their practice for three weeks in a row, how much have their wellbeing and emotional scales improved, and is there anything mutual in their behavior or background that might explain how well they've persisted and the amount of impact we made? Such questions can only be answered by large-scale analyses, not individual ones.

If you have any concern about the way we use or draw conclusions from our data, feel free to reach us at hello@vivid.me.
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