OpenSeizureDetector V4 is about ready for some limited user testing to check it is stable before I release it more widely.
The main change in V4 is the introduction of ‘Data Sharing’ where users (optionally) have the ability to share their data to a central database to allow us to build a large data set of normal activities that appear to be ‘seizure like’ and may cause false alarms, and most importantly real seizures for comparison.
It also introduces a some smaller changes:
- check on whether the system is going to ‘optimise’ OpenSeizureDetector’s battery usage (by shutting it down!), and prompts the user to disable this feature to make sure OpenSeizureDetector works correclty.
- Adds a ‘Report Seizure’ button to record a seizure even if OpenSeizureDetector does not alarm automatically.
So from the user’s perspective the changes are not radical, but there is a lot of extra code to run the user interface for the data sharing (logging on, displaying data, editing), so I’d like a few people to make sure it is stable for them and does not crash before I publish it.
My idea is that as long as that testing is successful, then in a couple of weeks I will publish Version 4 on Google Play Store.
For this initial testing what I need users to do is:
- Run through the registration, user verification and log-in process to the data sharing database.
- Generate some events by doing seizure-like activities and using the ‘report seizure’ function.
- Edit the events to mark them as either genuine seizures or false alarms.
- Check that the system does not crash unexpectedly.
Please drop me an email if you are able to help with this initial testing.
Thanks
Graham (graham@openseizuredetector.org.uk)