Projects

For more details on the project functionalities, screen shots, and demo video, please check the corresponding website for each project.

Project Name: CLT Assistant
Team Name: The Droid Geeks
Students: Ashok K. Jonnalagadda, Robert J. Lewis III
Overview: Team Droid Geeks has assisted the Old Dominion University (ODU) Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) in achieving a long-desired goal. We have developed a collaborative, mobile-based application centered on the faculty and staff of ODU. The application allows the audience to fully engage CLT tools and resources from a mobile platform. The mobile application we've developed has helped to bring the CLT program into the mobile-age and gives CLT a solid foundation on which to further develop their mobile-accessible package.

Project Name: TV Social
Team Name: The Infinite Loop
Students: Chris Coykendall, Elliott Peay
Overview: TV Social is an Android application that will allow television viewers to participate in an active discussion and socialize about TV shows and channels they enjoy watching. The majority of the user experience will take place within the native Android app. Users will be able to select from a list of television programs being aired, then enter into a conversation module with other viewers. There will also be a server to handle tracking conversations and archiving. As far as content provided, the initial release will primarily focus on nationally-operated, major television channels and broadcasts. There will be basic functionality for handling the "chat-rooms" and managing unique users who participate in the discussions, and tracking others who are watching similar programming.

Project Name: Energy Sniffer
Students: Mostafa Uddin
Overview: EnergySniffer is an home energy usage monitoring application based on smartphone sensors reading. The main objective of this project is to exploit the sensors in smartphones to detect usage of home appliances. From that usage and the detection of machine can help us to measure energy usage by that machine. However, as a part of this project, we have only exploited the Audio and Magnetic sensor for this project. As these sensors in smartphones are not powerful enough to monitor the usage of machine, so we conduct some research to identify the challenges of using the sensors in smartphone for detecting energy usage. During this project we have hacked the Android phone to understand the operation of both Audio and Magnetic sensor. Also the audio processing and machine learning algorithm was implemented in native code C/C++ at Kernel level for better performance.

Project Name: Digi Seeker
Team Name: Team Blizzard
Students: Tony Chiou, Timothy Werner, Jeremiah Dunn
Overview: DigiSeeker is An Android application that uses the GPS and connection to a mySQL database to determine distance and direction to another player (the target). The Player must then decipher the data retrieved to locate this target.

Project Name: Inventory Kit
Students: Minhao Dong
Overview: InventoryKit is a simply and easy to use android application, that could help you do you inventory. You Can scan Serial Numbr from your hardware, modify hardware specs, and upload to your server. You Can also set a location for your hardware based on location service provid by your phone.

Project Name: AppSycos
Team Name: Team AppSycos
Students: Atsuyuki Harada, Sai Chaintanya, Sheekha Khetan, Ujwal Manjunath
Overview: Our app is designed to help and encourage physically challenged people and kids to communicate with other people and to enjoy the basic functionalities of smart devices like healthy people usually do every day. The user interface is adjustable for more than one type of disability by utilizing a verity of triggers and Text-to-Speech (TTS) based audio assist. For example, a combination of a touch screen with the tapping trigger (e.g., double tap, long press) and audio assist allows the user with impaired vision to control her or his smart device without seeing the screen.

Project Name: App Double Screen
Students: Scott Seto, Pierre-Olivier Vanheeckhoet
Overview: Our application has two goals: provide students and university staff outdoor and indoor location by using many localization systems and provide instructions to go to a certain location. The application must be able to provide a precise location in multiple environments by using the available localization sys.

Project Name: Sheet Music
Team Name: ODU Droid
Students: Mike Ruffing
Overview: The Digital Music Stand is a sheet music viewer that allows musicians to organize, edit, and display music for all occasions ranging from practice sessions to concerts. The main objectives of the Digital Music Stand include the following:

Render sheet music on an Android enabled tablet device

Organize sheet music into compositions

Allow users to make musical annotations and notes on the sheet music

Capture and import sheet music into the application

Store and collect a library of sheet music on the Android enabled device

Project Name: Cloud Control for PowerPoint
Team Name: Jocote
Students: Zhonglu Wang
Overview: The Cloud Control for Powerpoint is used to let you use your android phone as a remote control to control your PowerPoint slides that are displayed in the browser.

Project Name: Financial Management
Students: Zac Howland
Overview: Financial Management is a personal financial planning application for the Android platform. It is designed to track simple financial transactions, maintain a current account balance, and monitor various spending categories. Anyone who tracks their finances carefully, or who is looking to manage their expenses would find this application useful.

Project Name: The Safety Button
Team Name: Team Winning
Students: Wayne Stilwell
Overview: The ODU Safety Button gives students a way to contact campus police without having to make a phone call. It specifically targets ODU students, but faculty and staff could also use the app. In the event of an emergency, the student would simply press the phone's power button five times to trigger a request for help. The app then utilizes GPS to locate the student. It pulls the student's name, gender, and picture (if they entered this on the profile screen), and sends this information to campus police. Some dispatch stations are starting to accept SMS messages for emergencies. To take advantage of this, the app first sends an SMS to the police containing their name, gender, and a Google Maps link to their location. It also sends an email with this information, along with the picture the user selected on the profile screen. The app will record audio for two minutes to help with the investigation. When the recording finishes, it too gets emailed to the campus police.