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2012-2013 Winners Announced

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Thanks to everyone who came and participated in today’s event. Your tough questions and votes were very much appreciated. Thanks to everyone who watched us online. Thank you to all of our judges who had the difficult task of evaluating all of the finalists.

Congratulations to all the finalists for making it this far in the competition. Finally, congratulations to our winners!

Winners


Acknowledgements

Once again, we’d like to thank our hosts, UBC IT and Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC) and sponsors, Wavefront AC and Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology for helping organize the 1st Digital *U competition.

We’d like everyone to stay tuned for more news about V.2.0 of the competition coming soon. This first round is focused on mobile apps but in the words of one of our judges, David Vogt:

There are so many dimensions of the future UBC in a digital sense… How we can make UBC the smartest campus in the world; leveraging all the facilities, the multicultural, global community we have here.

Let us know in the comments your response to the question, “what theme should Digital *U tackle next”?


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Attribution

Trophy icon by Pedro Ramalho from the Noun Project.

Connect

A mobile version of Connect


Team Member(s):

  • Aaron Bailey
  • Alex W.
  • Anica Villamayor
  • Elliot M.
  • Hannah Parvizi
  • Mikhail Narva
  • Olivia E.
  • Robert Ragotte
  • Rumbizai Chiwaya
  • Mandy Thiessen
  • Don Reimer
  • Flora Wu

Project Proposal:

A mobile version of Connect that shows all relevant information and performs same functions as though one were accessing Connect on the computer. Some features: calendar syncing of assignment due dates, midterms, exams; push notifications to give reminders of due dates & add/drop course due dates; and more!

Balance Board

Health promotion app


Team Member(s):

  • Joshua Weinstein

Project Proposal:

A lightweight mobile application which empowers a UBC student with knowledge, access, and interactive feedback, to be leveraged as a preventative medicine tool. It will utilize a single login to access the Student Health Centre (appointments, referrals, lab results), gym (personal usage statistics from birdcoop and aquatic centre), AMS Card (meal-plan calorie tracking), UBC Health and Wellness Centre, and will provide an RSS feed of health-related events via UBC Events. Furthermore, it is intended that this application will provide a secure video-conference between the student and a healthcare professional, including therapists. This application will maintain HIPAA compliance, and require minimal setup (student identifies goals (if any), and can set up alerts/reminders.

Clicker++

Mobile clickers


Team Member(s):

  • Junhao Shi
  • Orkhan Muradov

Project Proposal:

The existing popular classroom voting system – i>clicker is powerful considering the fact that it increases the interactivity of the classroom activity, and that it allows students to provide feedback in an efficient way. However, the system requires everyone to buy an i>clicker remote and to bring it to the class, which is inconvenient. Nowadays, mobile devices, such as cell phones and tablets are becoming universal. Our project focuses on how to make use of these devices to support classroom activities, and in a better way if possible. A web-click system will be built, which covers most of the major cell phones or tablets platforms, such as iOS, Android, etc. Also, SMS service will be included to support students who don’t own above devices and are not willing to buy one. By involving these devices, students will have a larger range of choices of which device to choose from for their classroom activity.

HotSpot

Real-time check-in for campus meetings, etc.


Team Member(s):

  • Amy Lee
  • Andres Fajardo
  • Henrique Arrais
  • Alex Nguyen
  • Chris Lee
  • John O’Keane

Project Proposal:

“Hotspot” is a real-time check-in app that allows students to spontaneously create/browse on-campus meetings.

Entourage

Student community engagement


Team Member(s):

  • Rindra Ramamonjison
  • David Lee
  • Jerry Lin
  • Marc-Oliver Gern

Project Proposal:

Mobile app for promoting students’ community engagement on UBC campus.

Live, Learn, Leave

A plan for leaving school


Team Member(s):

  • Jennifer Sawka
  • Gabriel Caldwell

Project Proposal

A plan for leaving school