iSchool Capstone

2023

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Pallet Shelter: Collecting Data To Enhance Village Models Aimed At Addressing Homelessness

Pallet Shelter addresses unsheltered homelessness by constructing transitional shelter villages. To gather data on their impact, we developed a solution for collecting anonymized information from village residents. This measures the effectiveness of non-congregate village models in addressing residents' health, well-being, and homelessness journey. Google Forms surveys capture resident and service partner experiences, while a staff dashboard enables data analysis. Our solution provides insights into non-congregate villages' effectiveness by gathering data from residents and staff, enhancing our understanding. A project proposal was created to ensure Pallet is on the right track to obtaining constant data they want to enhance our solution.
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Pantry Pals

Pantry Pals is a mobile app addressing the pressing issue of food waste and its impact on the environment. The app enables users to effortlessly build personalized meal plans, keep track of their pantry inventory, and provide valuable information on sustainable eating in order to reduce food waste. Through extensive data analysis, Pantry Pals also provides personalized tips, such as meal planning suggestions based on preferences and waste reduction tips, empowering individuals to reduce their environmental impact while improving their overall health. PantryPals promotes responsible consumption, fosters a sustainable food system, and contributes to a greener future for our planet.
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Plating Diversity: Plate of Nations' Website Redesign Celebrates South Seattle's Multicultural Food Scene

Plate of Nations is an annual event that celebrates the culinary diversity of minority ethnic groups in South Seattle. Our project's aim was to improve the event's online presence by revamping its design. We focused on better showcasing participating restaurants and their cultural backgrounds, adding detailed event information and a searchable restaurant directory. At their request, we also implemented a Digital Passport, enabling attendees to collect stamps and explore the event’s diverse cuisine. This proof of concept represents a significant step towards creating a more engaging and accessible Plate of Nations website, benefiting both attendees and local minority-owned businesses.
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PRODigy: Simplifying Microsoft’s BCDR workflows with ServiceNow Integration.

Team PRODigy conducted a comprehensive comparative analysis between Microsoft's current BCDR Manager and ServiceNow's BCDR platform. The analysis identified gaps in ServiceNow's out-of-the-box solution and provided recommendations to bridge these gaps. Additionally, the project highlighted additional functionality available in ServiceNow that could enhance Microsoft's BCDR workstreams. The deliverable was a comprehensive gap analysis report outlining the identified gaps, recommendations, and proposed enhancements. This project makes a difference by providing Microsoft with valuable insights into the potential benefits of adopting ServiceNow's platform, ultimately improving the efficiency and effectiveness of its BCDR process, increasing team productivity, and enhancing disaster recovery capabilities.
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Project Anemone

Starfish Space worked with our team to redesign their data platform. Starfish Space engineers and analysts interact with hundreds of files with many different data visualizations every day without a modern, easy-to-use platform to organize and navigate their data. Anemone is an updated data visualization platform enabling Starfish Space employees to read and analyze satellite mission data faster to support future satellite missions with more efficiency and customizability.
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Prompty: Bridging Intergenerational Gaps One Prompt at a Time

Prompty is a platform designed to bridge the gap between generations of immigrant families who have become disconnected due to distance. It simplifies long-distance communication by offering prompts for sharing personal experiences, language, and traditions, thereby facilitating stronger connections between distant relatives. The platform serves as a central hub for storing family photos and videos, while also enabling the exchange of cherished memories, recipes, and songs. Prompty is user-friendly and intuitive, designed to be accessible even to those who are not tech-savvy. Through Prompty, families can effortlessly bridge the gap and nurture their relationships, regardless of the distance separating them.
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Psycare: Cultural Approach to Manage ADHD Symptoms

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common yet underdiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders in the US. Research suggests that more than a million people are undiagnosed and untreated because of constraints such as time and money. Psycare provides free support to both diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD patients by providing non-pharmaceutical interventions to improve anxiety, concentration, and restlessness. It adds a unique angle to the market by drawing upon traditional wisdoms of several Asian cultures and introduces these ancestral practices to a wider audience.
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Puyallup Public Library Historic Project

The project's goal is to digitize all the physical records, documents, artifacts, photos, that have originated from and around the Puyallup area. These digitized objects will then be uploaded onto the Puyallup Public Library website for local use.
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RDA/RDF Application Profile Design

The library cataloging communities are transitioning to the official Resource Description and Access (RDA) as their new standard for resource description. This project addresses the need for application profiles to facilitate the creation of well-formed RDA metadata. The focus is on designing a profile for describing print monographs and implementing new data models, entities, and elements introduced in the official RDA. The result is eight Sinopia resource templates and accompanying HTML guidance documents. This pioneering work will enable libraries to start creating RDA/RDF description sets and is expected to promote wider adoption of the official RDA.
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Real-time Speech Emotion Detection

This project focuses on the development of conversational analytics and AI solutions for Seasalt.ai, aimed at analyzing real-world speech data for insights. Multiple Machine Learning models were implemented, with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) demonstrating the highest accuracy improvement of approximately 67%. The CNN model effectively identifies emotions from audio data clips, enhancing conversational analytics within Seasalt.ai's product SeaMeet. Extensive experiments and evaluations have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of the CNN-based approach, showcasing its potential for real-time applications such as affective computing, virtual assistants, and emotion-aware human-computer interaction.