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DSC 291:�Thinking about Final Project

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General Information on Final Project

  • Final Project is 30% of the total grade.
  • You can pair up with another fellow student and do the final project together.
  • Deliverables:
    • Project Idea Proposal
    • Two Minute Madness Presentation
    • Informal Progress Report and Initial Demo
    • Project Write-up
    • Working Demo/Promo Video (Bonus)

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Final Project

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  • You will pair up for your final project and propose ideas.
  • Check out the website for details.

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General Information on Final Project

  • Every student individually pitch, as a customer, something they would like someone to build for them that they would personally find useful. Not something they think would be useful for someone else, but for themselves.
  • The class (including the instructor) then votes for top ideas they'd like to work on.
  • Based on the vote, the instructor pick enough customers to match the number of project teams.
  • Each team is assigned a customer to work with. The trick is that the customer is not part of the team and does not work on the project. Unlike the team just coming up with a project themselves, the team actually needs to try to understand what the customer needs and probe them to figure out what is the spec needed to address their needs.

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Brainstorming about Project

George Harry Heilmeier

(May 22, 1936 – April 21, 2014)

was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs)

Heilmeier's Catechism

A set of questions credited to Heilmeier that anyone proposing a research project or product development effort should be able to answer.

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  1. What are you trying to do?
  2. How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?
  3. What's new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
  4. Who cares? If you're successful, what difference will it make to the world? What are the risks and the payoffs?
  5. How long will it take and who will do what?
  6. How would you measure success?

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Ubicomp Tools Covered in Lecture and Laboratory

  1. Accelerometer
  2. Gyroscope
  3. Magnetometer
  4. Microphone
  5. Camera
  6. WIFI
  7. Barometer
  8. Capacitive Sensor
  9. Soft Sensing:
    • Lock/unlock
    • App Usage
    • Text/Call
    • Internet Usage

Android Programming

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Ubicomp Tools Covered in Lecture and Laboratory

  1. Accelerometer
  2. Gyroscope
  3. Magnetometer
  4. Microphone
  5. Camera
  6. WIFI
  7. Barometer
  8. Capacitive Sensor
  9. Soft Sensing:
    • Lock/unlock
    • App Usage
    • Text/Call
    • Internet Usage

Android Programming

Feature Engineering

Modeling

Evaluation

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Ubicomp Tools Covered in Lecture and Laboratory

Arduino meets Wearable

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A few more tools

Bitalino

Affectiva (GSR)

Emotiv (EEG)

Fitbit

Also feel free to propose any new hardware that you may want to use. We will try to buy some hardware for you.