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)

¹Respondents that selected Policy maker, Insurance representative, or Other (free text) as their profession did not complete Section II