iSchool Capstone

2015

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ISOPRO

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.
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Jumo

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
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Kōjām: A Gateway to eBooks for Marshallese Students

Kōjām is a Marshallese word for a door, doorway, or gate. This project, developed in partnership with the U.S. Embassy Majuro, has resulted in a new virtual portal – a single, straightforward website that directs students and educators in the Republic of the Marshall Islands to thousands of eBooks currently available for free from a variety of online sources. It gathers links to these sources together and describes them in one convenient place. In the future, if additional funding is secured, this portal is poised to link to even more titles available via an OverDrive subscription. The Marshall Islands are extremely geographically isolated, but their relationship to the U.S. remains close and unique. Enhancing educational opportunities available to Marshallese students is a priority for the United States. The U.S. Embassy Majuro seeks to increase student access to eBooks and to encourage digital reading. Kōjām is an important part of this effort.
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lamunity.com - A community for language learners

When searching for opportunities to learn to speak any language, the resources available are scarce, at best. Learning what words mean is one step, but being able to converse in the language is a difficult and crucial task for any language learner. This is something that requires lots and lots of practice, ideally in a face-to-face conversation. This is where Lamunity comes in. We built a website that will enable users to search for other members of their community, meet with them, and practice speaking together.
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Let's Ride! - Top 10 Bike Rides of Seattle iOS App

Let’s Ride! : A Better Riding Experience Chenglu Chai (Full-Time MSIM), Xinwei Liu (Full-Time MSIM), Wenjing Yang (Full-Time MSIM) If you want to find bike rides for sightseeing in Seattle, what would you do? Would you spend time searching the information for bike rides online? If you did, you could end up with incomplete or even incorrect information. You could buy guidebooks, however, you may find them expensive, outdated and heavy to carry. Now, you have a better option: “Let’s Ride!” This iOS app offers comprehensive information of bike rides in Seattle, including attractive images, maps, overall ride difficulties, estimated time, estimated length, terrain and road conditions. “Let’s Ride!” gives you the best riding experience in Seattle directly to you via your iPhone. Great experience and adventure are waiting for you.
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Loop Space

With the onset of near-instant communication via mobile devices, many platforms have been developed to enhance our collaborative abilities. People are able to collaborate with their schoolwork with Google Docs, but there are currently very few platforms that tackle creative collaboration. Loop Space is a mobile application designed for casual musicians to collaborate on a global scale. There is a messaging system that allows users to find local musicians to encourage real-time collaboration as well in order to expand beyond the constraints of our app. Our app is a musical sketchpad for multiple users to be able to collaborate effectively and spontaneously.
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Love and the Laws of Ranganathan

For every book it’s reader, for every online dater their perfect match? More and more people are turning to dating sites and apps to find true love, but finding that match can be incredibly difficult. In 1931, Ranganathan, devised the Five Laws of Library Science, which connect books and readers. Using Ranganathan’s Laws as the theoretical framework, the team tackled these questions: How do people use online dating profiles? What attracts people to certain profiles? How can Ranganathan’s Laws of Library Science be adapted to online dating profiles to help users find each other? By conducting a literature review and interviews, the team delivers the “Five Laws of Online Dating Profiles” and recommendations on getting a profile noticed. This information can help researchers who are interested in studying online dating, developers of online dating apps and websites, and online daters looking to improve their profiles.
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MediSync

MediSync: A Safer Way to Schedule Medicine Nina Dang (Informatics), David Gutierrez (Informatics), Troy Griffiths (Informatics), Brett Yamada (Informatics) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription drug overdose is the leading cause of injury death in the United States. Among them, about 80% are unintentional. When drug overdose occurs, it is typically contributed to a medication regimen with conflicting side effects, insufficient spacing of time in-between consumption, or the addition of over-the-counter drugs. MediSync, a mobile application, helps prevent these situations with careful scheduling and monitoring. With the touch of a button, users are reminded to take their medication at the proper times. Additionally, when adding a new drug to their regimen, the user will be alerted if a harmful interaction is detected against their existing schedule. MediSync’s provided awareness of prescription drug intake is the next step towards healthier habits and saving lives.
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Mobile Application for eSwing Golf Technologies

The eSwing Golf Android Application aims to revolutionize the way golfers practice their game. For an organization that currently supports only laptops for displaying and analyzing swing data, a mobile application will boost the usability of the Swing Analyzer device. The proposed mobile Android application that will connect to the hardware, a device using the patented “Opto-acoustic” technology which precisely measures club head position and movement at impact, in real-time via Bluetooth will increase the worth of the hardware by manifold. The player will be able to create his profile and then evaluate his performance during his training session(s) using interesting visualizations. In today’s age where everything is going mobile, our app will increase the worth of the hardware, manifold. Its ease of use, portability and instant analysis results will surely add to the business of the company and significantly improve sales.
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MuSee

MuSee takes a unique approach to educational interactivity on mobile devices. MuSee uses augmented reality to create an immersive environment filled with multimedia content. This artifact scanner will connect users to new and interactive information about the artifacts at the museum. Augmented reality makes our product unique, easy to use, interactive and fun! MuSee also features custom content for the client museum including event information, exhibit details, accessibility information and a donation feature. MuSee is about telling a story, and the stories at museums are far too complex, colorful, and interesting to be confined solely to text. Most museums either lack mobile applications or have poor quality applications that fail to solve the issue of engaging visitors in an interactive manner. MuSee is revolutionizing the Burke Museum with an application that creates an augmented reality experience, allowing guests to engage and interact with history in ways they never believed were possible.