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Table 9 Device performance with regards to COACH's response to participants' actions and participants' reactions to prompts given by COACH.

From: The COACH prompting system to assist older adults with dementia through handwashing: An efficacy study

Opportunity outcome*

Water On

Use Soap

Rinse Soap

Water Off

Use Towel

TOTAL

Hit

16

62

15

48

6

147

Miss

1

11

1

3

2

18

False alarm

7

107

18

18

2

152

Correct reject

117

69

87

60

100

433

Steps completed correctly in response to a prompt from COACH

1

4

6

18

1

30

Prompts from the COACH ignored by participants

20

159

24

43

7

253

  1. *Hits, misses, false alarms and correct rejects are defined in Table 3.