[Mentor #3] Choo Jia Le

For more information about Jia Le, please see: https://bit.ly/30esJp9 (scroll to slide 7)

If you would like Jia Le 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:

Team members: Wang Yuting, Shi Wen
Team name: Drag&Drop
The URL of our Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/n07b0bn/poster-Design-v2.png
The URL of our Liftoff video (from 51:23):

Hi Jia Le,
As the poster and video shows, we are trying to develop a mobile application to dynamically promote canteen/stall/dishes and provide greater interaction between customers and stall owners.
Therefore, we hope to get some guidance to implement our functions, especially, data collection and data analysis.
Thank you very much!

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 Jia Le,
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 visualization, 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.

Your team members' names: Ernest Chng and Luke Lau
Your team name: Mother & Father
URL of your Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/1dhq0Pp/Luke.png
URL of your Liftoff video: 1:13:25 - 1:14:35

Anything you'd like the mentor to know:
FamlySecure App (Android)
Problem: People generally worry about their loved ones when they are away from each other since they are unable to check on them.
Aim: FamlySecure provides users with the opportunity to check on the safety of their loved ones through location tracking and customisable triggers and alerts.
Target Group: Families, especially those with children and elderly. However, not limited only to families.

Introduction:
Since majority of people use their smartphones all the time, we can identify any risks a user may face based on the behaviour on their smartphone. Based on a user’s custom settings, we can detect any problems a person may face and trigger an appropriate alert. Thus, enhancing the safety of users through FamlySecure.

This application has 2 key features.

Feature 1: Request for location
A user can check on the location of another family member on a map. However, for the person’s privacy, the frequency at which the location of the person is disseminated will be pre-determined and set-up between the users. This feature can be disabled. In turn, the user can opt to send their location the instance there is a request by another family member. Should the family member wish to not send their location, the family member is required to key in a passcode/keyword that would assure the family member that he is doing fine.

Feature 2: Sequence of alerts
Based on certain triggers, a sequence of alerts is broadcasted in the case of an emergency.

Triggers:

1. If a family member has not moved from a location for a certain period (i.e. phone has not moved at all hence indicating an unresponsive family member)
2. If a family member ventures too far from a certain boundary (i.e. outside the country)
3. If the phone has been handling very unusual activity (e.g. repeated failed attempts to unlock the phone)

Alerts:

1. Sending a push notification to other family members.
2. Calling other family members.
3. Enabling the real-time tracking of the smartphone.
4. Taking pictures through the front and back cameras of the smartphone to see the context of the emergency though this is quite limited
5. Calling the police on that location

For each trigger, the alerts to be executed can be customised for a user (i.e. the user can customise which alert is the most appropriate for which situation)

Member 1: Muhammad Khairul Azman
Member 2: Sahil S/O Sanjeev Gathani

Team Name: VuKoh

Liftoff Slide: https://i.ibb.co/KDPmT5v/Orbital-Poster.png

Video url:

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App Name: Edible (Android)

Problem:
As someone with dietary restrictions (vegetarian/ allergies), it is tough to discern immediately whether one can eat a certain food product based on the packaging/ ingredient list alone due to coded food additives (E260 etc). Moreover, health-conscious users might want to find out more details about additives at-a-glance rather than individually figuring out what each coded additive stands for and its relevant details.

Solution/What the app does:
We plan to create an app where a user is able to find out whether a food product meets their dietary restrictions just by taking a photo of the ingredient list. Should it not meet their restrictions, the list of problematic ingredients will be printed out.

Core Features:
Maintain a database of common food ingredients in packaged food as well as coded additives that users can search for in the app
Immediately discern whether the food item meets your dietary restrictions by taking a photo of the ingredients list

Potential Extensions:
Auto-translation of ingredients of food products with packaging in a foreign language so that we can carry out Core Feature 2 for imported products
iOS release
Nutritional checker and tracking
Problem: Doesn’t track everything eg. fresh food so may not have much use
Storing user data (Search history/trends)
If a product does not meet dietary restrictions, suggest similar products

Implementation:
Build a database of commonly coded food additives
Manually input from common databases, manual authentication and checking
Build the photo parsing system (main app)
Build a system to automatically add unknown ingredients not in database
Doable? How to do - Automatically google unknown ingredient and search links and parse info and add? How to ensure reliable/authentic?
Add extensions
Technical details: Flutter for frontend, firebase for backend

What we need help with:
A professional’s opinion on our ideation: Is our solution optimal for solving the issue at hand, is there any other feature we should consider, something we are overlooking?
Roadmapping: Is the path we laid out feasible? Is our timeline appropriate? Should we be prioritising something else?
Dividing the work: Is it advisable to have one person handle the front-end and one person handle the back-end? We want to maximise our learning while also ensuring we have a good development plan in place.
Technical guidance where possible (Although we realise most of this will be self-learning): Database, storage and parsing.

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

Your team members' names: Hew Jian Yiee, Tan Wee Keat
Your team name: Food Hitch
URL of your Liftoff slide: https://i.ibb.co/G5BMDMX/Food-Hitch.jpg
URL of your Liftoff video:

(From 0:00 to 1:05).
Anything you'd like the mentor to know: Hi Jia Le, as shown in the video above and discussed during the matching session, our team is going to develop a food hitch system on a web platform. Our first prototype will be based on a trust-based system. If time permits, we hope to advance our system such that clients will be able to settle their payments on the platform. Therefore, we hope to get guidance and pieces of advice from you regarding the development. The technologies that we would be using are HTML, CSS, Javascript, React and Github.

Team member’s names: Kenneth Lee, Debbie Tan
Team name: FallSafe
Slide URL: https://i.ibb.co/QXGmSzt/Orbital-Ignition.jpg
Video URL: 44:20 - 45:20

Anything you'd like the mentor to know:
Dear Mr Choo,
Our team aims to create an app called FallSafe that will detect falls and send any relevant medical details, their current status, and location, etc. to their next-of-kin and a professional medical team. Our target audience is the elderly and disabled. Through the use of FallSafe, help can be sent on their way with increased efficiency and accuracy. We wish to allow synchronisation between our app and a wearable device (ie wristband) for convenience and increased ease of use towards elderly/disabled. Thus, we are seeking advice and guidance on both IoT and backend
aspects of our project.

We both have little to no experience in software development and would like to draw on your expertise in terms of full stack development, with a greater focus on backend design, to aid our app’s development. Thank You!

Best Regards,
Kenneth and Debbie

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 Mr Song,
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.

Hi everyone,

Thanks for considering me as your mentor for your orbital project. Unfortunately, I only have capacity to take 5 teams this time round.

I'm good with mentoring the following teams:

• Jing Ying
• Kenneth Lee
• Yuting
• Benjaming Fheng
• Tan Wee Keat

I have already set up the slack channel for these teams. Feel free to use them to reach out to me. We should meet in real life sometime soon to work out the details of your projects (I have some feedback for some of your projects).

Having that said, feel free to ping me on slack @jiale if you have any queries for me. I'll try my best to answer your doubts :)

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! :)