mobile applications

COSI JBS Product Showcase: Mobile Voice Applications

August 5, 2014 By division-of-science

Mobile Voice Applications
JBS Product Showcase

Thursday 8/7/2014
2:00-3:30
Olin Sang Auditorium

Please join us at the culmination of the Summer 2014 CoSi JBS on building mobile voice applications. Five groups will demonstrate their products described below.

B-improved will improve the quality of life on campus. With B-improved, any Brandeis student, faculty member or administrator can file an improvement and it will be recorded. With the speech feature, filing an improvement is quick and convenient. Then, facilities will review what needs fixing and take action. Members of the Brandeis community will have confidence that their voices are being heard.

Fridgebay is a website created to give students on various campuses a platform to buy and sell their items to other students on a simple, clean interface. As a part of our innovative interface, students can use our virtual speech assistant to navigate and browse our site. Our website has been created to be used on chrome browsers across all platforms using responsive web design and speech recognition native to the chrome browser.

Jeeves is a voice-powered personal assistant designed to help optimize your time by allowing you to listen to the news, email, or weather through a conversational dialogue. Jeeves is designed for “hands-busy, eyes-busy” environments. Forget about finding 20 minutes to shut yourself away to face your ever-increasing mountain of email. With Jeeves, simply listen to them on your morning commute!

The Rose Art Museum App (or RAMA) allows visitors of the Rose Art Museum an opportunity to learn more about the art and artists without disrupting the intended experience of a museum by seamlessly integrating speech commands to play audio. This ensures that the visitor is able to focus on the art!

YoWakeUp! is a social, interactive alarm clock which sends a text message to your friend when you snooze or miss an alarm. By alerting your friends, they can take action to ensure you wake up!!

Filed Under: Computer Science, events, Undergrads Tagged With: computer science, Justice Brandeis semester, mobile applications, summer course, undergrads

JBS Computer Science Product Showcase 2012

August 1, 2012 By division-of-science

The JBS Computer Science Product Showcase will take place on Thursday 8/2/2012 in the main Auditorium of the Mandel Center from 2:00-4:00

Tim Hickey and Pito Salas will present a short overview of this year’s Justice Brandeis Semester in Web Applications and Social Networks, and then each of four student groups will present the product they created this summer. There are four products that involve a database-backed web application and possibly a mobile component as well. The products are listed below, with a little suggestion of their purpose:

Spy Game: a new genre of Augmented Reality phone games

WikiWitness: an archive for first person reports of historical events

Volunteerhours.org: LinkedIn for volunteers

Where’s My Lane: civic hacking for Boston bike commuters

The JBS program covered not only the technical aspects of how to create a database backed website that could efficiently handle hundreds of millions of records, but also covered the practice of computer science and software entrepreneurship. The students will give 10-15 minute presentations with 5-10 minutes of discussion.

Followup: story at BrandeisNOW

Filed Under: Computer Science, Undergrads Tagged With: classes, computer science, database backed applications, Justice Brandeis semester, mobile applications, software, undergrads

Justice Brandeis Semester Lecture Series on Mobile Apps and Game Design

June 28, 2011 By tjhickey

Rob Lindeman ’87 (Assoc Prof of CS at WPI) gave a great talk to the Justice Brandeis Semester Mobile Apps and Game Design program students a week ago. He talked about his work in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. This is part of a series of lectures on Mobile Apps and Game Design. You can see the rest of the series at this link: https://sites.google.com/site/jbs2011mobile/info-pages/classroom-work/speakers including videos of past lectures and info about future lectures. Feel free to stop by if you are in the neighborhood. Lectures are Mondays 1-2 in Lemberg 55. We’ve also had talks by the CTO of the One Laptop Per Child program (Ed McNierny) and CTOs of a few mobile startups in the area. In two weeks, we’ll have Haggai Goldfarb ’85 talking about his Mobile Game company LiquidBits. These lectures are open to everyone and will be followed by demonstrations of the mobile app projects of the Justice Brandeis Semester students which all are invited to attend.

VIDEO: Rob Lindeman ’85 on “Virtual and Augmented Reality”

Filed Under: Computer Science, seminars Tagged With: computer science, game design, lecture series, mobile applications