Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are vitally important in any organization. They quickly explain what to do in almost any situation that arises. In animal shelters time is of the essence, especially when animals arrive that are neglected or injured, or families are ready to adopt their newest family member. This project consists of creating a new SOPs manual for the Oregon Humane Society for the on-site animal hospital in manual form and in local software. This project will continue through the year to include SOPs manuals for the animal shelter, and the investigations department and also manuals created in local software.

Data science is changing the face of the financial industry. Visible in the rise of quantitative funds, AI managers, and high frequency trading, 21st century technologies have produced unprecedented volumes of financial data. Without context or a way to capture the big picture, even the most engaged investors are getting left behind. Pariity takes technical, quantitative, and sentiment analysis and makes it accessible and digestible for everyone. We provide a holistic view of markets so that all investors can educate themselves, validate their thinking, and increase their confidence in trading.

Technology is revolutionizing the world however integrating technology into the education system has proven to be difficult. Students are more capable than ever and more inclined to use technology in their everyday life. Yet there is still a gap between education and technology. Peer.io is dedicated to bridging that gap. We have created a peer-to-peer platform for high school students to collaborate on for learning purposes. Features include discussion boards, tutoring sessions with other students and homework specific help. Our focus is to foster a community between students to promote the sharing of knowledge.

Our capstone project addresses the issue of improving phishing awareness among employees at UW Medicine. The project consisted of three phases: i) Designing and sending bait phishing emails targeting new employees who just completed their orientation (which included a presentation on phishing, and a warning that they would be phished), ii) Sending out a questionnaire to those employees asking why they did or did not click on the bait phishing email, iii) Designing and drafting a short, interactive, and engaging learning module to educate employees on how to identify phishing emails.

This winter, Seattle experienced an unprecedented volume of potholes, graffiti, and abandoned vehicles, among other symptoms of a rapidly growing city. These issues typically go ignored and unreported because people don’t know how to report them or are off-put by the large and unintuitive forms. PicFix aims to revolutionize the reporting process by utilizing computer vision and form auto-filling to make reporting problems as easy as taking a picture. Nearly all data required for the report is pulled from the photo to create a faster, simpler experience for the user. Smart images: worth more than a thousand words.

Our team aims to solve the problem that many parents are very busy at work, so that their children are not receiving enough guidance and companionship. We developed an Android educational game application that allows parents to have a safe mind to let their 6 to 8 years old kids play independently while providing children a fun and engaging game to play with. Parents can select learning objectives from a list of soft skills for their kids to learn and track kids’ playing progress. Children can learn the skills while building their own story and playing mini games.

Specialty Purebred Cat Rescue (SPCR), a nonprofit founded in 1999, is the largest rescue of its kind operating out of the Midwest region of the US. It has a great need for a remotely hosted rescue management software which can be accessed via the internet. After discontinuing its use of a shelter management database in 2015, data recovery was nonexistent. Additionally, SPCR currently does not capture microchip data nor adopter data in electronic form. The Capstone’s agenda was to test several shelter databases, provide a recommendation, develop a metadata guide, and assist with the implementation of the shelter management software.

The Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI) is a large, non-profit museum located in the city of Portland Oregon that started has a simple city hall exhibition and now serves over 1 million visitors. There were three primary objectives driving the “Preserving the Institutional History of OMSI” project: to arrange and describe, increase access, and plan for future success. Accomplishing these goals has created the organizational structure of a successfully functioning archive and set the museum on a path to making its archival material available to the external community.

Since launching in Fall 2015 as the University of Washington Libraries’ main discovery system, Ex Libris Primo has not been subjected to formal usability testing. Additionally, the UW Triennial Survey showed high dissatisfaction and negative feedback from students, faculty, and staff regarding the current library search experience. To improve their experience using the UW Libraries Search, we conducted user testing, analyzed the data, and provided design recommendations for implementation before the release of the newest iteration of Primo (Fall 2017). Our hope is for these recommendations to make a more user-friendly search system for UW library users.