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This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. This Privacy Policy for Council of Coaches is based on the services provided through FreePrivacyPolicy.com.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, for example when signing up for our Newsletter, that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- Cookies and Usage Data
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- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
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Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Council of Coaches will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure Of Data
Council of Coaches may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
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Security Of Data
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Analytics
Council of Coaches uses third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, specifically through Google Analytics:
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Welcome to the Council of Coaches B.E.T.A, or "Blobmen Extraordinary Testing Application". This application is still a work in progress, so errors and incomplete features are to be expected. Please find below an overview of the changes made throughout the testing period.
Update v0.4.22 (June 25th, 2020)
- Helen now has her fourth weekly coaching session enabled.
- Emma now has her fourth weekly coaching session enabled.
Update v0.4.21 (June 22nd, 2020)
- Olivia now has 2 new background stories.
- Olivia can now also suggest to talk about these stories.
- Carlos now has 3 new background stories.
- Coda now has 3 new background stories.
- Emma now has 3 new background stories.
- Francois now has 3 new background stories.
- Helen now has 2 new background stories.
- Katarzyna now has 3 new background stories.
- Rasmus now has 3 new background stories.
Update v0.4.20 (June 18th, 2020)
- Helen now has her third coaching session enabled in Dutch and English.
Update v0.4.19 (June 15th, 2020)
- All of Rasmus's dialogues now have Dutch translation files instead of adjusted English wool files.
- Updated Helen's 'coaching session available' dialogue a little to add some Dutch translations.
Update v0.4.18 (June 11th, 2020)
- Rasmus, when speaking Dutch, now has four weekly sessions in which he coaches on sleep.
- Each of Rasmus' sessions has a set of informative subtopics that he will discuss.
- Each of Rasmus' sessions also has a quiz at the end about the information he provided.
Update v0.4.17 (June 9th, 2020)
- Helen now has her second weekly coaching session enabled.
- Fixed some cases where Helen would use an english sentence in a dutch dialogue.
- Emma now has a tips dialogue with ten tips for being social.
Update v0.4.16 (June 5th, 2020)
- Olivia now has a background story available.
- The timeslot in which Carlos, Helen and Emma can ask their questions has been extended from 18h-24h to 18h-06h.
- Olivia is now slightly smarter when suggesting a topic to disucss herself.
- When Olivia suggests something to talk about, in all cases there is now an reply option to ask talk about something else.
Update v0.4.15 (June 2nd, 2020)
- Your login email address is no longer CaSe sEnSiTiVe (when creating an account or logging in).
Update v0.4.14 (May 29th, 2020)
- Helen now has her first weekly cognitive coaching session enabled.
- When entering your research code (during the intake with Coda) you can now only enter capital letters, and only exactly 4 characters.
Update v0.4.13 (May 11th, 2020)
- Added support for the "Monitoring Human Behaviour During the COVID-19 Lockdown" study.
- Fixed some textual issues in coach statements, where statements constructed from multiple parts where concatenated without a seperating space.
Update v0.4.12 (May 1st, 2020)
- Added an icon to the login password field that allows you to see the password you're typing.
- Updated the Credits section to include the Dutch Voedingscentrum (Recipes) and the Internet Archive (Music).
- You can now go back to the main menu during the initial account creation and intake procedure with the back button in the bottom left corner.
- Updated the intake procedure to support the second Council of Coaches evaluation round. Research participants can enter a 4-letter code to be automatically enrolled in the correct part of the evaluation, while other users can skip this.
- Fixed an issue for evaluation participants trying to login to the Council of Coaches application during the baseline week. They are now correctly given the message indicating that they have to wait for their baseline week to be finalized.
Update v0.4.11 (April 3rd, 2020)
- We lowered the number of steps that Francois has taken in his last week, used to demonstrate how Olivia's activity book works (he was setting the bar a little too high).
- Improved Olivia's dialogues that allow you to set a long term physical activity goal.
- Olivia can now properly explain how the activity book works, even if a user did not select Francois as a coach.
- Removed the amount of client side logging that is shown during normal operation.
Update v0.4.10 (April 2nd, 2020)
- Improved the procedure of connecting your activity tracker through Olivia.
- Olivia can now provide additional information on your activity tracker.
- When returning from the Fitbit website (after connecting your Fitbit), Olivia will now give more detailed information on the success or potential failure of the procedure.
- Updated the second weekly coaching session of Emma to include content that is better tailored to the British and Dutch evaluation participants.
- Fixed an issue with Emma's second weekly coaching session when revisiting the session through the coaching session archive.
- Fixed a Dutch translation issue in Emma's first weekly coaching session (introduced in update v0.4.8).
- Added Emma's third weekly coaching session.
- Minor textual fixes to the Dutch explanation of the Radio by Coda.
- Minor textual fix to the English Fitbit setup dialogue by Olivia.
- Fixed a Dutch translation issue in Coda's intake dialogue (introduced in update v0.4.8).
- Improved the flow of conversation with Olivia when the user wants to "discuss something else".
- Minor improvements to the Fitbit setup procedure from Olivia.
Update v0.4.9 (March 26, 2020)
- Improved the error messaging after unsuccessful login attempts (in case of empty email adres, or empty password fields).
- Emma's dialogue for the second coaching session is now a little more intelligent.
- Francois can now discuss "tips and info".
- Francois can now inform you about salt.
- Francois can now inform you about water.
- Francois can now inform you about fruit.
- Francois can now also repeat a previous tip if requested.
Update v0.4.8 (March 14, 2020)
- A new mechanism for handling dialogue translations (from English to Dutch) has been implemented in the background. This should make it easier to make changes to existing dialogues and to add additional content, hopefully speeding up the rate at which we can add more dialogue content to the Council of Coaches B.E.T.A.
- Olivia can now repeat previous tips given on how to become more physically active.
- Carlos, Emma, and Helen will now periodically ask a few questions to the user on their overall mood, their social activities and their cognitive activities.
- The radio will now continue playing after the first song has finished.
- All the radio channels have been upgraded with brand new music. Check out channel 1 for Jazz and Blues music, channel 2 for French music (Francois loves it), channel 3 for classical music, or channel 4 for some good old Rock and Roll! Each channel now randomly plays between a collection of 20 different tracks.
Update v0.4.7 (February 26th, 2020)
- When Olivia suggests to discuss a specific topic the available topics now also include: gathering information, informing how and informing why.
Update v0.4.6 (February 20th, 2020)
- Olivia now offers advice on why physical activity is good for you.
- When having received an advice on why physical activity is good for you, you can review previous adive given by Olivia.
- Olivia has a new advice on why physical activity is good for you, related to your brain activity.
- Olivia has a new advice on why physical activity is good for you, related to your biological age.
- Olivia now offers advice on how to improve your physical activity.
- Olivia has a new advice on how to improve your physical activity together with your friends.
- Olivia has a new advice on how to improve your physical activity during your lunch walks.
- Olivia has a new advice on how to improve your physical activity in the evenings.
- Olivia has a new advice on how to improve your physical activity by using stairs.
- You can now ask Olivia about "Tips and info".
- Added a new dialogue for Olivia in which she will ask the user about his/her living environment.
- Added a new dialogue for olivia in which she will ask the user about dogs.
- Olivia now offers various dialogues regarding goal setting.
- When trying to set a goal without having an activity tracker connected, Olivia will help the user connect a tracker.
- Olivia can now help you in setting a long term physical activity goal in number of steps or number of active minutes.
- Coda now offers additional dialogue to participants of the Council of Coaches evaluation, to assist with questions or possibilities for providing feedback.
- Fixed an issue with the language fallback mechanism. When a dialogue was not available in a non-default language, the system would fall back to an English dialogue (intended), but would subsequently not change back to the preferred language (now fixed).
- Fixed an issue where Emma, Helen and Carlos sporadically initiated an incomplete dialogue.
- When Olivia takes the initiative in the conversation, she will now use the correct language.
- Fixed an issue in Olivia's topic selection mechanism that caused her to wrongfully assume the user did not have a tracker connected.
- Olivia's topic selection mechanism now chooses between social talk, goal setting, discussing sensors and providing feedback.
- Emma Li now has her first weekly coaching session enabled, focusing on your social network.
- Francois's recipe selection procedure was fixed in English, and translated to Dutch. Francois can now in both languages guide the user through selection a recipe out of a database of 280 delicious and healthy recipes.
- Fixed a bug in Francois's tip on eating less salt.
Update v0.4.5 (February 2nd, 2020)
- Fixed a bug where the additional intake questions regarding participation in the evaluation study did not appear in Dutch.
Update v0.4 (Start of Evaluation Round 1)
- Francois has received a new recipe book with a total of 280 delicious and healthy recipes, available in Dutch and English.
- After creating an account, the intake dialogue with Coda now asks whether or not you are participating in the evaluation study, and in which site (Twente or Dundee).
- When launching the Council of Coaches for the first time, Coda will now check whether evaluation participants have already completed their first week of baseline measurements, before allowing them into the Council of Coaches application.
- Added Dutch translations for the coach nameplates in the Coach Selection Screen.
- You can now ask Olivia for some "Tips and info" when talking about "Coaching". Once a day, Olivia offers new advice on why physical activity is important, and on how to become more physically active. This new feature includes tips and advice on the following topics:
- The benefits of physical activity for your brain (why).
- Temporarily disabled the Danish language version of Council of Coaches, as not all new dialogue will be directly available in Danish.
- Fixed an issue where the Council of Coaches application would scale to a tiny size upon appearance of the on-screen keyboard on Android tablet devices.
Update v0.3.19 (October 10th, 2019)
- New radio.
- Language can be changed at the login screen.
- Added new translations.
Update v0.3.15 (October 8th, 2019)
- New login screen.
- New graphics for dialogues with Coda when you create an account or during the intake.
Update v0.3.11 (September 12th, 2019)
- Added info boxes to the coach selection screen.
- It's possible to talk with Rasmus.
Update v0.3.8 (September 11th, 2019)
- New coach selection screen.
Update v0.3.7 (August 15th, 2019)
- Speech bubbles are moved to the side when a book is shown.
- The speaking coach is marked with an icon over the head.
Update v0.3.5 (August 14th, 2019)
- New graphics.
- New coaches.
- Running clock.
- Button click animations for touch screens.
- Fixed possible concurrency issues.
- Fixed text loading in Chrome.
Update v0.3.1 (July 29th, 2019)
- New graphics.
- Suggests coaches based on an intake, and allows you to select the coaches you want.
- After login, it is checked whether you already took the intake and selected your preferred coaches.
- Dialogues can be closed any time.
- Restructured the code and prepared it for internationalization.
- Fixed caching issues.
Update v0.3.0 (June 3rd, 2019)
- This is the BETA v0.3 release corresponding with the project's Third Functional Demonstrator milestone (see www.council-of-coaches.eu).
Update v0.2.3 (May 25th, 2019)
- You can now have more control over the radio. Tap it to bring up a fullscreen user interface, where you can start/stop and select from four different channels.
- Fixed an issues where you would be re-directed to the login screen upon rotating your screen (in mobile/tablet devices).
- Various performance upgrades to the client software.
Update v0.2.2 (May 17th, 2019)
- Added SSL support - you now have a secure connection when using the Council of Coaches B.E.T.A.
- Included the intake dialogue with Coda. After you create a new account, Coda now has some questions for you to kickstart the coaches' ability to coach.
- The coaches got a brand new radio to liven up the room!
- Fixed possible audio delays in the Main Menu.
Update v0.2.1 (May 10th, 2019)
- Added a Feedback button to the bottom right of the page - let us know what you think!
- Fixed a bug in Alexa's introduction dialogue that could cause you to get stuck.
Update v0.2.0 (May 10th, 2019)
- Added contents for Alexa, Helen, and Francois - have a chat with them!
- Several usability improvements where made to the "Create Account" procedure:
- Added background graphics to the account creation scene, and updated the helper arrows to ensure readability.
- Added the "Why should I create an account?" dialogue.
- Updated the text input reply option, to match the one used in the main user interface.
- Updated the "Continue" button icon to match the one used in the main user interface.
- Your browser should no longer auto fill the password when you are asked to select a new password for your account.
- In case of an error, you are now given the option to re-start the procedure.
- Added a helper arrow for the last interaction type, using "Finish" buttons to end a dialogue.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the Patch Notes or Privacy Statement windows from being scrollable.
- Changed the icon associated with "Continue" dialogue options to be in line with the icons used in input text statements.
- Added background graphics to the Main Menu.
Update v0.1.8 (May 4th, 2019)
- Improved accessibility for mobile devices. You can now no longer zoom in or zoom out the Council of Coaches application on mobile or tablet devices. Additionally, a page reload will occur when the device orientation changes between portrait/landscape mode, forcing the automatic scaling of the user interface to re-apply.
- Added proper dynamic scaling to the main Council of Coaches livingroom interface (previously, only the main menu would scale by maintaining all aspect ratios and element positions - this has now been applied to the main user interface as well).
- Removed old experimental dialogues from the scene. In this version, only Coda is interactable, and offers a simple intro dialogue.
- Fixed the appearance of strange characters in the Privacy Statement.
- Added separate client and server version indicators in the bottom left corner of the UI.
- Added this Patch Notes section to the Main Menu.