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Table 1 Timeline for the development and deployment of our solution in the nursing home (14 months trial)

From: Deployment of assistive living technology in a nursing home environment: methods and lessons learned

Timeline

Description

Activities

Mar 2010 - Mar 2011

Observations, discussions & prototyping

Pre-deployment

Apr - June 2011

Prototyping & Demo

 

Jul 2011

Application for ethics approval

 

Aug 2011

Ethics approval obtained

 

Aug - Oct 2011

Initial trial setup and field testing of system

 

Oct - Jan 2012

First phase (1 room, 4 months trial)

Deployment

Jan - Feb 2012

Analysis, features update & performance tuning

+

Feb - May 2012

Second phase (1 room, 4 months trial)

Ground truth

May - June 2012

Analysis & questionnaire survey

+

June - Nov 2012

Third phase (3 rooms, 6 months trial)

Data analysis

Nov - Dec 2012

Analysis & questionnaire survey

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