[Mentor #10] Esther Tham

For more information about Esther, please see: https://bit.ly/30esJp9 (scroll to slide 14)

If you would like Esther to be your mentor, please add a reply below, with the following details:

1. Your team members' names:
2. Your team name:
3. URL of your Liftoff slide:
4. URL of your Liftoff video:
5. Anything you'd like the mentor to know:

1. Team Member's Name: Chia De Xun & Phaedra Tan
2. Team Name: Team Rocket
3. URL of Liftoff Slide: https://i.ibb.co/SrGZ1F5/Orbital-Slide2.jpg
4. URL of Liftoff Video: 41:07 - 42:21 (https://youtu.be/BLp0pBpMlS4?t=2461)

5. Anything you'd like the mentor to know:
   Project Overview
   Our Orbital project is a web-development project titled “DiagNUS”. DiagNUS is a website portal that aims to effectively aggregate the concerns and suggestions of all students in NUS, and channel them through the right medium to be a force for positive change.

   What we need mentorship on
   -Guidance on building an interactive website that can accommodate the mentioned features (Full Stack Development)
   -UI/UX design that is pleasant and engaging for our target audience

1. Team member’s names: Tsai Hsiao-Han, Wang Xueting
2. Team name: 1952
3. Slide URL: https://i.ibb.co/6vX2rFp/Ignition-Presentation.jpg
4. Video URL: 38:18 - 39:38

Hi Ms Tham,
As mentioned above, we are planning to develop a mobile app to encourage sustainable lifestyle among users. The features include basic navigation, tracking user actions, viewing collective results and relevant knowledge, and sharing on social platforms.

We would like to seek some guidance regarding one or more of the following topics:

• Front-end: iOS app development, UI/UX
• Back-end: data visualisation, database management (cloud), game development (for engaging and interactive design)

We would also appreciate it if you could kindly provide suggestions and advice for other areas of development related to our project. Thank you very much.

Dear Ms tham,

Our group was looking to create an outlook application targeted at email marketeers that would be able to help users sort through automatic replies and parse useful information from them. Oftentimes, marketing campaigns result in thousands of bounced emails/automatic replies with useful information, such as the contact information of other people in the same organisation or a notice that someone is leaving his/her company and is being replaced.

Though this information would be valuable to most marketing teams, parsing through thousands of emails manually is extremely slow and tedious work, so we hoped to build an application to fill this gap. At present, we were looking to make use of natural language processing libraries available for python to accomplish this, whilst using react to build the actual application.

Both of us are fairly new to software development in general and were hoping to draw on your expertise with UI/UX in terms of the actual design of the application. Do let us know if you would like to hear more about our project and if you would be interested in mentoring us. We hope to hear from you soon, thank you!

Member 1: Ong Yan Chun
Member 2: Liu Zechu

Team Name: xyz

URL of Liftoff video:

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URL of Liftoff poster: https://i.ibb.co/5rLxygb/first-pitch-130519.jpg

Problem:
People who read text materials cannot conveniently, efficiently, and effectively learn content knowledge from the materials.

Significance:

1. Reading text is a major way of learning, especially for subjects that require a lot of content knowledge.
2. There is such a treasure trove of text materials out there. It is so easy to download free learning materials (e.g. textbooks, articles, research papers) on the internet, but not as easy to make full use of that material. We want to make full use of this potential.
3. Not restricted to students alone, for example learning a new language requires a lot of memorisation of vocabulary, going into a new field, etc.

Problems with current solutions:

1. Reading and re-reading notes: passive and ineffective
2. Making physical flashcards: takes too much time, can’t be done on the go, can’t be reviewed on the go. We asked someone who creates physical flashcards for revision, and they said that the main problem is that they cannot review the cards on the go.
3. Flashcard making apps like Anki: Although Anki is successful and has many many features, the cards can’t be done on the go and disrupt the flow of reading. We interviewed a dedicated user of Anki. He has made 27000 cards and reviews 1500 cards minimum a day. He said that he wanted to make cards while he was reading his textbooks instead of having to switch between multiple apps. He also wished to create cards on his phone instead of only on his laptop, so that he could make and review cards during transit.

Goal:
To make learning content knowledge from text materials convenient, efficient and effective.

Convenient = Accessible from your phone, portable, on-the-go
Efficient = Want to make cards quickly, review cards quickly
Effective = Consistent. Good for memory retention

Our solution:
Phone app. (Primarily android)
Core features:

1. While reading through a PDF document, the user can highlight a sentence/phrase in the PDF, then it’s automatically made into a flashcard. And then the user can write a question to prompt them to answer the highlighted parts.
2. User will be prompted to answer questions at regular intervals based on the Leitner system of spaced repetition.
3. After reviewing a card, you may opt to return to the part of PDF where you made the card.
   Extension features:
4. Can make user-defined cards too.
5. Can use OCR to make notes.
6. Visual representation of the flashcards stored. So I can see how many I’ve done, various stats etc.
7. After you make a card, it is consolidated into your box.
8. Can define multiple shoeboxes (categories to store the cards) and what goes into the boxes.
9. Some sort of gamified score system: how many cards I have graduated from, my streak (current, longest), see statistics of my own progress.
10. Make the app not just limited to PDF, but also other file types such as websites, images etc.

Reach - people who want to learn from text materials (esp. students studying content heavy subjects, people entering into a new field, picking up a new skill)
Impact - depends. An average student studying a content heavy subject will be affected very often - every day they learn something new as their learning is broken down into feasible steps
Confidence - scientific evidence from Ebbinghaus that spaced repetition works. And we have conducted interviews on our target audience and understood how they learn and interact with text materials.
Effort - a lot.

What we need help with:

1. Integration of PDF into our app
2. UX design - how to make this flashcard making process as smooth, efficient, and fun as possible

1. Team Member's Name: Bryan Lim & Joel Loong
2. Team Name: Team MediHealth
3. URL of Liftoff Slide: https://i.ibb.co/t2D2yc6/Medi-Health.png
4. URL of Liftoff Video:

Anything you'd like the mentor to know:
Project Overview:
Hi Ms Tham,
Our project is a medical tracker mobile application.

The app aims to track and remind users with regards to their:
Biomarkers, Medicine/Supplement Consumption, Rehabilitation/Lifestyle Habits, Appointments/Checkups

—–Main Features—–
Track:

• Biomarkers
• Consumption Status of medicine/ supplements
• Action Accountability (Rehabilitation / Lifestyle habit)
• Appointment Dates

Remind user to:

• Assess biomarkers
• Consume medicine / supplement
• Carry out Action (Rehabilitation / Lifestyle habit)
• Attend Appointments / Checkups

We have other features in mind to extend the project however we have decided to minimize the scope for now to ensure the deliverability of the project

What we need mentorship on:

• UI/UX design that is pleasant and user-friendly for our target audience (Youths to Elderly with physical illnesses / ailments)
• Guidance on Software Engineering Principles
• Refining our ideas

Best Regards,
Bryan and Joel

1. Team members: Charmaine Koh & Qiu Jing Ying
2. Team Name: Katz
3. Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/H4v4Jw5/Katz.jpg
4. Liftoff video:

Project:
We plan to design a game, SoCiety, set in the campus of SoC in order to create a unique and fun way to introduce and integrate freshmen into SoC. We will be using Unity to design the environment of the game and we would like to seek some guidance regarding the backend developments for the game such as a leaderboard and multiplayer functionalities.

Your team members' names: Ho Chinn Fang and Damien Tan
Your team name: Cash Me Outside
URL of your Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/rmh0YH6/lift-off.png
URL of your Liftoff video:

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Anything you'd like the mentor to know:

Hi Esther,

Our app is based on the idea of helping people earn money without working, which will be useful for people who are looking to earn some side cash but are unable to commit to a real job for any reason. Users can complete surveys and give feedback to companies for some cash out. This will benefit companies by helping them learn more about consumer preferences/knowledge. Companies will also be able to use our app to pull off viral marketing stunts, such as through the hosting of live giveaways or live activities.

Since our project revolves around mainly around the user, good UI/UX design is integral to attracting and retaining our user base. We do sincerely want users to have an effortless and enjoyable experience on our app, and hope to be able to get more advice from you in this area. During the mentor matching session, another mentor also mentioned that UI/UX will be a huge focus for our project to succeed. Hence, we felt that it would be a great help if you were willing to mentor us!

We would love to work with you and learn more from you.
Thank you!

Sincerely,
Chinn Fang and Damien

Your team members' names: Sabrina Hung Xiang Yin and Zeng Daize
Your team name: GoGreenLah!
URL of your Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/fkWtKc9/Ignition.jpg
URL of your Liftoff video: 45:30 - 46:30

Dear Esther,

Our group is looking to create a mobile app for everyday use called NapMap.
The purpose of this app is to wake commuters up when they are nearing their location. It uses geolocation to track where they are and their target location. We will be adding features such as :

1. Setting multiple alarms and multiple geo tags
2. Customisable geofence
3. Customisable alarms
4. Social Media linking
5. User Accounts
6. Integrated map/routes

We are looking for a mentor that will be able to guide us with the development of this mobile app.

Your team members' names: Lim Shi Chen Kerwin and Koh Hui Hui Elizabeth
Your team name: Sloths
URL of your Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/Tbz3R7z/Screenshot-2019-05-22-at-11-32-24-PM.png

Your team members' names: Lee Wei Gen, Mavis Kwa Rui Lin
Your team name: bacon udon
URL of your Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/w49TBnd/IGNITION.png
URL of your Liftoff video: 02:40 - 03:40

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Anything you'd like the mentor to know:
Hi! We are embarking on a journey to create a mobile app to improve everyone's productivity in whatever they are doing, and most importantly is to make everything a fun process! I hope you can consider to help us along!

Thank you very much for your time and consideration! :)