Maker Space Solution
Reimagining MyPitt.edu
Restaurant wait time estimator
Homework Planner
Connecting Students with Courses
Providing Developing Teachers with Classroom Experience
Art of Making / Maker Space Virtual Assistant
Student-Led Project
We're making a digital assistant program that can find things in a database and tell a user its location within a makerspace.
Initial Team Members: Frank Czura, Ben Desiderato, Amelia Glenn, Warren Lester, Shane Riley
Current methods for cataloging items in makerspaces are inefficient to put together and manage People currently use Amazon’s Alexa to automate solutions in their daily lives. Items in the Art of Making makerspace are too difficult to find. How might we improve the ease of use of makerspace catalogues? ISSUE: wasted time A few seconds on a small scale, hours on a large scale STAKEHOLDERS: Students Professors Swanson School of Engineering If we don’t do anything, time continues to be wasted ASSOCIATED COSTS: Amazon Alexa platform Wiring Employee compensation Routine maintenance Action should be taken on this issue in order to maximize the time spent in the creative process. Using Amazon’s Alexa, we can automate a database for the makerspace. In order to do this, we plan on creating a prototype using AWS and Python Testing Usability of this method on actual users of the makerspace
Reimagining the potential of MyPitt.edu
Student-Led Project
The my.pitt rework team has designed a test tool using Adobe XD in order to simulate a potential redesign for the website. Our purpose is to gain feedback about user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). The design is a functional network of UI and graphical content, however it is not implemented in Hypertext Markup Language (html) with Pitt systems is a deeply involved process and would require significant investment of time and cooperation with University of Pittsburgh employees and leadership. At the current stage of testing, it is desirable to gain feedback on the most basic aspects of UX: is it easily navigable? Does the layout make sense? What improvements need to be made? Is it visually appealing? Once those aspects have gained sufficient feedback and the design has incorporated the results, further work for a more comprehensive testing system would be advisable. We are looking for test users to interact with our deliverable to offer us insights towards improving the UI design.
Restaurant wait time estimator
Student-Led Project
The Oakland Can’t Wait restaurant time reference web app builds a database of references based on consumer feedback. It was built to combat the unnecessary need of waiting in long lines at some of the more popular restaurants in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh PA. Along with combating waiting, Oakland Can’t Wait has the potential to help local businesses by helping the stress of workers serving extremely long lines. The main purpose of the project is to display accurate wait times based on user input. Not only were we able to successfully implement this feature, we also gained experience in a highly useful scripting language. Other than learning php, our entire group, made up of Computer Science majors, already knew HTML and JavaScript. Since our group was already familiar with those two things, it allowed us to develop our project/database much quicker instead of spending time learning.
Homework Planner
Student-Led Project
We created the SchoolGuru homework tracker for students who have trouble with time management. The web-based application arranges user-input assignments onto a weekly calendar, displaying the assignment on multiple days before the due date to serve as reminders to complete the assignment. Many homework trackers only display assignments on the date they are due, but SchoolGuru calculates the amount of time that needs to be spent on the assignment each day up until the day it is due. The weekly calendar view sits at the top of the web page, with a navigation bar along the top border with buttons that allow the user to jump straight to the bottom of the web page to input their assignments. The navigation bar also includes a link to the About and Frequently Asked Questions page, which provides more detailed instructions and explanations of the product. By breaking down assignments and displaying them as smaller assignments, this web page will hopefully help students by providing a better visual representation of all of their upcoming work.
Connecting Students with Possibilities
Student-Led Project
Students can become confused with major requirements or with what classes would best fit their goals - advising appointments are not efficiant for quick answers or to answer concerns. The virtual Advisor allows PPW students access to advising when necessary - Clear description of PPW classes - Straight forward layout of graduation requirements. Can be displayed on touch screens around PPW department (accessible and convenient) - Possible for use in other departments as well. We broke into teams of two in order to start tackling the first major 3 parts of the project: Home/Sample Schedule section, Requirement section, and Recommended Courses section. Our goal is to get content together and start playing around with the styling. The design came from a Bootstrap template that we simplified for this project. We wanted it to be basic to not distract from the content.
Providing Developing Teachers with Experience
Student-Led Project
Beginning teachers often need help navigating situations that could potentially emerge in the classroom. The Pedagogy Kiosk is a student-built system designed to help graduate student educators prepare for these situations. It provides 360 degree videos that allow emersion into the classroom environment.
The goal of this project is to think about how virtual reality can be used to help new teachers become effective teachers in the classroom. Each subsequent addition to this project should build on the knowledge gained from earlier versions. This could include the addition of new technologies, as well as new strategies to facilitate a given situation.
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