Month: March 2020

I hope everyone is keeping well in these difficult times?

I wondered if anyone who speaks multiple languages finds themselves bored while locked in, would you mind translating some text for OpenSeizureDetector?

I have modified the code so that the app user interface and basic settings text can appear in your local language rather than English. But to make this work we need to translate my English Text into your local language. If you would like to do this, you need to get a copy of a file called strings.xml from the source code for the upcoming Version 3.2 of OpenSeizureDetector.

You then need to edit it in your favourite text editor (or windows notepad if you do not have a favourite), and change the text values into your language.

For example you would change

<string name=”Cancel”>CANCEL?</string>

to

<string name=”Cancel”>ABBRUCH?</string>

If you do that for the whole file, and email it back to me (graham@openseizuredetector.org.uk), then your text will appear in the app user interface when you install V3.2.
Note that we have a first go at a German version here [Thank you, Juergen] (but there are some bits of English in it where I have added new strings, so still some work to do on it).

If you are starting to work on a language, probably best to comment on this post on the Facebook page so others know you are doing it, just in case two of you do the same one.

Thanks!

Graham (graham@openseizuredetector.org.uk)

I am sure that when you installed OpenSeizureDetector from Google Play Store, you studied the Privacy Policy in great detail :).

The next major release of OpenSeizureDetector will include the ability to log data to a web server. There are two main benefits to this:

• If you need me to help understand why you are getting false alarms or failures to detect seizures, I can access your data easily to look for the problem.
• It will build up a database of accelerometer and heart rate data which (provided you mark it to say what is a genuine seizure) will allow us to develop better seizure detection algorithms and reduce the false alarm rate.

But to do this I need to change the privacy policy, because I can no longer give the easy statement of ‘I don’t collect any personal data’.
I have produced a draft update to the policy here. Changes from the previous version are highlighted in red text.

Please will you have a look at it and let me know if you think it is reasonable, or if you would like to see it changed if you were to use the WebAPI data recording system?

Thanks, Graham (graham@openseizuredetector.org.uk)

A user recently had trouble installing OpenSeizureDetector because you need a computer to install the Garmin watch app, and she only has a phone. So I tried to get the OpenSeizureDetector watch app listed on the Garmin Connect App store to make installation easier. I received this polite refusal to list the app:

I guess Garmin are worried about legal action if they publish something that should be FDA approved, but I don’t have the energy to try and work out whether OpenSeizureDetector would need FDA approval or not, so I am going to leave the installation as requiring a computer. If someone else would like to read the documents above and help draft a response explaining why it is ok to be published on the Garmin app store though, I’m happy to re-submit it.

Graham (graham@openseizuredetector.org.uk)