Table 1 Structure of the online questionnaire. Refer to Additional file 1 for the specific questions (indicated by Qx)

Section

Target professional background

Topics covered

Section I Demographics

All

• Gender (Q1)

• Location (Q2)

• Categorization: Patient/Non-patient (Q3)

• Years of experience in rehabilitation (Q4)

• Exposure to technology-aided assessments (Q5)

• Profession (Q6)

Section II ¹ Profession-specific questions

Clinicians

• Work environment & experience with technology (Q7-Q8)

• Frequency of assessments with and without technology (Q9-Q11)

• Interaction with engineers (Q12)

Engineers (research or medical industry)

• Familiarity with different technologies (Q13)

• Interaction with clinicians and patients (Q14-Q15)

• Perceptions about routine assessments (Q16)

Neuroscientists

• Interaction with clinicians and patients (Q24-Q25)

• Perceptions about routine assessments (Q26-Q26)

• Perceptions about using neuroscience paradigms as clinical assessments (Q27-Q28)

Hospital/clinic administrators

• Use of technology for rehabilitation and assessments (Q29-Q30)

• Frequency of assessments in their institution (Q31)

Medical Industry (non-engineering positions)

• Type of technology provided (Q32)

• Market for technology-based assessments (Q33; Q35-Q36)

• Effort put into technology-based assessments (Q34)

Patients

• Rehabilitation environment (Q17)

• Frequency of assessments with and without technology (Q18-Q19)

• Perceived value of assessments (Q20)

• Knowledge of results (Q21)

• Types of technologies used (Q22-Q23)

Section III Motivators, barriers and opinions on the future of technology-aided assessments

All

• Duration of ideal assessment (Q37)

• Motivators for routine assessments with and without technology (Q38)

• Level of detail required for different assessment purposes (Q39)

• Major bottlenecks in technology-based assessments (Q40-Q41)

• Focus for the next 5 years to promote technology-based assessments (Q42)

• Open questions/comments (Q43-Q45)