The check-in tasks

Experimental · not a medical device

Alongside writing things down in your own words, Lantern offers a set of short, optional check-in tasks you can take on your phone. Each one records a simple, neutral measurement — something like a number of taps, the length of a traced line, or how long a sound was held.

You keep these measurements, and you can share them with your clinician. That is all they do. They do not tell you what the measurement means, whether it's normal, or what any result might indicate.

How to read these tasks — three honest rules

A measurement, never a verdict. Each task shows you a plain number with its units (for example, "142 taps" or "sway path length: 380 mm") and a note on what the task looked at. It never scores you, never says "normal" or "abnormal," never gives a percentile, risk, or trend, and never diagnoses.
You share it; your clinician interprets it. The measurements are for you to record and hand on. Only a qualified clinician can say what, if anything, they mean.
Experimental — not a cleared medical device. The whole check-in module is experimental. It is not a cleared, approved, or CE/UKCA-marked medical device, and its regulatory and licensing status is open. These are original, own-authored tasks — they are not the clinical instruments they are loosely inspired by, and they are not equivalent to them.

Movement — hands and fingers

5 tasks

Alternating tapping A short tapping task that records how many times you tap and the timing between taps — a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a score or a result. What it records Hold-still A short task that records how steady the phone is while you hold it — recorded as neutral motion measurements to keep and share, never a rating or a result. What it records Spiral trace You trace a spiral on screen, and the task records how closely your line followed the template — a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a rating or a result. What it records Target tapping Targets appear one at a time and you tap them; the task records your timing and accuracy as neutral measurements to keep and share — never a score or a result. What it records Typing rhythm You type a short prompt and the task records only the timing of your key presses — never the words themselves. A neutral measurement to keep and share, not a score or a result. What it records

Movement — standing and walking

3 tasks

Short guided walk A brief guided walk while holding the phone; it records neutral motion measurements like an estimated step count and rhythm — to keep and share, never a score or a result. What it records Quiet-stance sway You stand still for about half a minute while the phone records gentle movement; it reports a neutral sway measurement to keep and share, never a balance score or a result. What it records Timed transitions A short movement task — sit-to-stand, a there-and-back walk, or rising from the floor — that records neutral timings to keep and share, never a mobility score or a result. What it records

Thinking and attention

5 tasks

Reaction time You tap when a signal appears; the task records how quickly you respond as a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a score or a result. What it records Symbol coding Using a simple key, you match original symbols to digits for about 90 seconds; the task records how many you complete as a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a score or a result. What it records Word & picture recall You're shown an original list of words or pictures and asked to recall them; the task records how many you recall as a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a memory score or a result. What it records Colour–word task You respond to the ink colour of a word even when the word says a different colour; the task records your timing as a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a score or a result. What it records Clock & figure drawing You draw a clock to a set time and copy a simple figure; the task records neutral measurements of the drawing to keep and share, never a drawing score or a result. What it records

Effort over time

1 task

Sustained effort A repeated action over about a minute; the task records how performance changes from start to end as a neutral measurement to keep and share, never a score or a result. What it records

Voice and words

2 tasks

Sustained voice You hold a vowel or say a short phrase; the task records neutral sound measurements on your device to keep and share, never a voice score or a result. Audio is handled on-device with your consent. What it records Words in a minute You say as many words as you can in a category or beginning with a letter for about a minute; the task records a neutral word count to keep and share, never a score or a result. Audio is handled on-device with your consent. What it records

Recording what you notice

2 tasks

Questionnaires (ePRO) You answer original question sets about how you're doing; Lantern keeps your answers verbatim and shows a simple own-authored total, never a validated scale's score or a diagnosis. What it records Event diary A structured log for events you choose to record; Lantern keeps each entry verbatim and shows your own count and how often — never a validated frequency, a prediction, or an alert. What it records

Sensory check-ins

3 tasks

On-screen visual task An opt-in on-screen task using original shapes and patches. A phone cannot test your eyes. It records only which levels you reached, never an eye-test result, and never tells you your vision is fine. What it records Vibration felt-at-level An opt-in task where the phone buzzes at different strengths and you say if you feel it. It records only the level you felt, never a sensation threshold, and never tells you your sensation is intact. What it records Sensation self-map An opt-in body map you mark yourself to show where you notice altered feeling. It is your own report, kept verbatim with a simple count — never a test result and never a reassurance that sensation is fine. What it records

The tasks record; your clinician interprets.

Every task records a neutral measurement for you to keep and share — never a verdict. Learn how Lantern organises it all.

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