List of 3rd year student projects supervised by Dr Parisa Eslambolchilar

Parisa is interested in a broad range of scientific and engineering projects from mobile platforms to cars and from digital interaction to safe and resilient interaction. I am quite keen to develop interactive tools on Android phones (smart phones in general) and iPads. The list of projects provided here is a small selection. Please contact me if you have any interesting ideas for the 3rd year project on these platforms.

PE-1 Walk with Android: In an existing android code developed on the CHARM project - bActive lifestyle- the activity is monitored using only the accelerometer on the android phone. An enthusiastic student is needed to look at the patterns of walking, jogging, running and possibility of differentiating them on the phone. Good java/android programming is required.

PE-2 Outdoor fun with Android: In an existing android code developed on the CHARM project - bActive lifestyle - the activity is monitored using only the accelerometer on the android phone. There are other sensors available on the phone to monitor the activity such as GPS. This project will investigate the possibility of using the GPS on the phone for monitoring activities such as cycling or hiking. Good java/android programming is required.

PE-3 Dietary behaviour change: This project involves taking photos of food using a camera on an Android phone. Then these photos will be uploaded to a server automatically and tagged by anonymous people as healthy or unhealthy food. Then the average norm of these tagged data will be sent to individuals phones with appropriate comments about their diet. Good java/android programming is required.

PE-4 Tina the cat with diabetes:This project involves designing a game on an iPod, iPad, iPhone or an android phone. This game is about a pet e.g. a cat called Tina with diabetes who is a special friend for children with diabetes. Tina has patches on her arms, legs, tummy and bottom to help children learn about site rotation. In the application children can even give Tina a pretend injection. Tina also has red patches on both sides of her paws so that a child can pretend to test her blood sugar.

NOTE: The core components to a project are: (a) literature review, (b) development, (c) implementation and, (d) evaluation. Computer Science Department at Swansea University suggests that 300 hours of time is set aside to complete a project with a continuous work rate of at least 10 hours per week. Some students will exceed this in order to produce an excellent body of work.