Today’s Interactive in-car systems have failed to provide the necessary comfort, safety, and experience expected of them. Part of the problem is the rapid addition of more advanced in-car components and flashy screens that lack the right user-centered approach and integration. We aim to bridge the divide through the next generation in-car experience for daily commuters. This will improve their interaction with in-car systems helping them accomplish secondary tasks while driving safely. To specify our design scope, we focus on the design of the instrument cluster, head up display and central console touchscreen for cars.

This project creates guidelines to help preschool teachers build a diverse, quality collection of books for use with preschool children as the children develop emergent literacy skills.

Sand Point Campus, run by Solid Ground, provides both permanent and transitional housing, and offers multiple services to its 500 residents. The campus library, located in Santos Place, provides daily programs for the children and teens. Using observation, query, and data analysis, we determined that the library is not utilized to its full potential. The data allowed us to create an Action Plan that provides a synthesis of our findings, offers various program proposals, and makes suggestions for improvement, which the staff may reference for future planning.

We aim to solve the age old question “What should we eat for dinner?” Devour solves this problem and provides key recipes that every individual in your party will enjoy. We recognize that eating is more than just an individual act, and embrace that personalization goes beyond the individual. Applications like Netflix and Pandora have disrupted their respective industries by providing their specific user with recommended results. Our application takes it even further. Instead of stopping at providing key recipes for the individual user (which we do), we incorporate everyone in your party to enjoy the fruits of our application.

Fondren Library has a collection of music recitals from the Shepherd School of Music that span from 1973 to the present. The early recordings are in reel-to-reel and cassette tape formats, which puts them at risk for degrading and also makes it difficult for patrons to access them. Fondren Library is digitizing the at-risk recordings and making them available through the IR to preserve them and increase access. As my part, I created a sample set of local name authority records for the performers on the recitals and then created a set of procedures based on my findings.

Language. Race. Culture. Socioeconomic status. These factors often result in children from low-income families entering school unprepared to thrive. Early learning research demonstrates that storytime positively impacts readiness to read and succeed in school. To bring storytime to an underserved community, our team delivered early literacy programming at Lake City Court, a Seattle Housing Authority low-income apartment complex. Our goals: aid the children’s healthy development; foster a love of reading; and demonstrate to the community the value of families learning together to build literacy skills.

Eckstein Middle School, in NE Seattle, had a variety of underutilized library and technology materials, extra space, and student interest in undertaking creative projects. This capstone identified the predominant problems facing student downtime and addressed them through the creation of a makerspace within the library. The project was completed in three phases: inventory of current available materials and wishlist, programming and procedures binder, and hosting a Maker Fest extravaganza. Eckstein’s makerspace is a place to inspire and engage students to pursue STEAM fields by providing an unstructured learning environment for student exploration.

Founded in 1894, the Mazamas is a Portland-based nonprofit organization, focused on mountaineering education. Mazamas members Edward Curtis, known for his Native American portrait photography, and Asahel Curtis photographed many expeditions. Previously, lack of resources kept those photographs stored away. Our group created an online, searchable exhibit of both the photographs and equipment typical of the era. Through research, assessment, digitization and metadata application, we curated an online exhibit which highlights early Mazamas history. Digitization and increasing public access will generate greater awareness of the Mazamas and promote their mission both locally and on a larger geographical scale.

When shopping in grocery stores, nutrition labels can be difficult to read - especially in regards to dietary restrictions. Eligo solves this issue by allowing users to efficiently analyze nutrition labels from consumer food products. Shoppers will be able to scan food products using their Eligo app to get informative alerts about any ingredients that may violate dietary restrictions. These alerts apply to the shopper as well as to any friends/family who consume the food products. As a result, Eligo transforms the shopping paradigm by empowering users with the technology to make quick and safe decisions when purchasing food.

Containers allow application developers to work with lighter weight virtual machines capable of running on the cloud and provide increased flexibility for sharing existing code. Although the benefits are appealing to developers, the security of networks and data in the containerized world must not be overlooked. This whitepaper outlines known breach vectors of Docker containers by analyzing five common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) while providing a consultative review on why container security is integral. This research addresses the importance of balancing technological convenience with security and advocates for the development of a culture of security awareness amongst container users.