Drivr is a rapidly expanding personal chauffeur service which commands a fleet of Tesla Model-S vehicles but previously lacked a consolidated system for logistical planning and execution. To solve this problem, I designed front-end interfaces for both drivers and dispatchers in addition to a back-end database by following the user-centered design process. For drivers, I utilized the Tesla’s 17-inch screen in the dashboard to design a low-cost solution which runs in the vehicles’ browser. For dispatchers, I designed a web interface which provides a number of much needed flexibility options. Testing has proven that this system will not only improve the capacity of Drivr to provide superior service, but because it is so much more efficient, effective, and satisfying to use, stakeholders, dispatchers, and drivers alike expect the new system to make Drivr an even better place to work.

Health care costs are high for both consumers and the organizations that provide health care plans to their employees. Washington Health Alliance (WHA) works with organizations throughout the state of Washington, both private and public, to help reduce the overall cost of health care. Their goals include reducing price, overuse of services, and reducing underuse of effective care. HR representatives from WHA member organizations were surveyed to understand how they create a health care benefit strategy for their organization and how they communicate the strategy and plan with their employees. Among approximately 130 recipients there was a 12% response rate. The survey responses were used to create a sample health care plan purchaser persona, which can be used by WHA to prompt discussions with HR representatives about creating health care strategies and communicating their strategy and plan with their employees.

While cooking we spend a majority of time looking for recipes online and then matching it with our available kitchen inventory. This effort takes significant time and essentially results in cooking the same meals or spending money and eating out at a restaurant. It has become a reoccurring problem and one of the major motivations for our project. InstaCook, suggests recipes to the users based on the items they already have in the kitchen. Novice cooks will be able to use the application while cooking and operate it through voice commands and avoid the hassle of using a smart device with their messy hands. It empowers our users to experiment with new and variety of easy to cook recipes. Not only will this lead to a nutritious diet but will also minimize food wastage, as it effectively maintains a kitchen inventory leading to a decrease in expenditure.

Home automation for years has been the domain of home installers, outfitting wealthy consumers with expensive setups. Now, there are companies like Nest, Hue, Dropcam, Honeywell and Belkin that let people individually control their lights, locks, cameras, garage doors or anything with a plug. The biggest challenge here is the steep learning curve for people to setup and use multiple applications with very different user interfaces. In short, it is a nightmare to make all these devices work as a single unified system. Our project – Grapevine, is a one‐stop solution, which aims to simplify this process of home automation and make your entire apartment building intelligent. Grapevine will allow residents to completely personalize and automate their apartments, while also enabling apartment managers to conveniently manage processes like security, lighting or maintenance for the whole building. Grapevine will offer complete control, convenience and security through a simple, well‐designed mobile application.

A typical grocery store in your neighborhood grapples with the challenges of high operating costs, narrow margins and losses in expired inventory. Achieving incremental gains in optimizing inventory stocking, efficient consumption of utilities and avoiding wastages will result in huge impact on the bottom line of locally operated grocery stores. Our project ventures in this space to provide a facility management platform for store managers to centrally monitor performance of various devices in the store and collect insights for operational intelligence. We have designed a centralized dashboard for store managers to connect, configure and monitor performance of typical devices that you find in a grocery store. The dashboard can be used for fault and configuration management to minimize MTTR (mean time to response). Data is collected by a polling mechanism which queries devices about their statuses. The data collected can be used for rendering trending graphs and generate reports for forecasting and proactively detect issues before they arise.

Photography is a skill that is improved by proper feedback and practice. Most online communities, like Instagram and Flickr, focus more on showcasing photography and not on giving critical feedback to help photographers improve. ISOPRO strives to help the users improve their photography skills by learning through tips and the community's feedback. Through the point system in the commenting section, it will create an incentive for users to give critical feedback. The more points a user has, the higher their reputation will be in the community. When a user is in a rush, they can easily upload their photo and receive generic tips to help them on the spot. Lastly, our drawing tool points out problem areas in a photograph, so the photographer can easily understand what's wrong. We created ISOPRO to help our users share, learn and connect with photographers everywhere.

Jumo: We’ll log your hours Auditing is an important component to UW Athletics because this determines whether or not athletes can compete for their university’s athletic success. The current system is quite complex and inefficient; coaches struggle with logging practice hours for their athletes due to a cluttered interface, poor user experience, and having to deal with a lot of manual inputs. Additionally, the current system does not provide coaches with any sort of review process, which represents a lack of compliance checking. Jumo aims to solve these concerns by utilizing RFID technology to accurately log hours for coaches, reducing manual input and human errors. Simultaneously, Jumo checks for compliance in the back end to ensure NCAA bylaws are met. With Jumo, we do the heavy lifting for the UW Athletics. Team Members Howard Lin | Informatics Kevin Ly | Informatics Tuvshin Tulga | Informatics Kevin Yang | Informatics

KairosPDX Learning Academy (KLA) is a new Portland, Oregon charter school aimed at attacking the racial achievement gap. Curriculum is both designed – based on the Common Core Standards, and emergent – evolving from the interests and curiosity of students. KLA also specifically teaches foundational life skills including: focus and self-control, perspective taking, communicating, making connections, critical thinking, taking on challenges and self-directed engaged learning. Crucial to this process is documentation – capturing and recording activity and behavior of individual children in order to create curriculum for them and track their development. An enormous amount of information – images, text, audio, and video – is generated for and about each student. I modeled for KLA an implementable cloud-based method to organize, store, manage, and retrieve information as needed for curriculum development, reporting, reflection, and longitudinal assessment of student development, particularly as regards social-emotional learning and life skills.