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Projects

Projects for 2013 will be listed here after the proposal presentation class. The following projects are from the Spring 2012 class:

HuddleUp
HuddleUp allows people to form dynamic groups focused on activities that require a sufficient number of participants. We connect people with people based on interest in initiating an activity, as well as people with events that require more participants.

Vowch.It
vowch.it is a mobile and web-based application that uses social pressure to help individuals achieve goals and stick with routines. Users are held accountable for the things they set out to do - members of the community need to vowch for a user's actions in order for them to count as valid. "Vowching" is done in the form of validation of text, pictures, videos, and other media that the user can provide as evidence for their actions. More reputable members of the community have a bigger say in whether a piece of evidence is valid or not. Members become more reputable by vowching fairly and accomplishing goals. The deep social integration creates appraisal for a user's accomplishments and disincentivizes failing to follow through.

Re-Run
We created an Android application that expands the capabilities of re-use mailing lists by providing users with a live stream of reuse posts, including user generated posts, to their smartphones, which, in conjunction with location-awareness provided by Android devices, will then direct them to the items the items they are seeking. The application is comprised of list, map, and post item activities supported by a back end database which will handle item categorization and incoming posts.

Food.hack
Food.hack helps users choose restaurants based on recommendations by their peers, post their own dish suggestions, and select dishes once they are at a specific restaurant. The goal of our application is to increase socialization among the MIT community regarding food recommendations.

Lovely
Lovely is based on the idea that people want to know and use the same apps that their friends are using. Today, Facebook is the center of social interactions on the web, and applications built on top of Facebook are able to leverage the social connections it holds. Lovely aims to approach the problem of finding new apps from both the developer and the user side. It will provide an SDK for developers to integrate Lovely into their apps which will allow users to share their app downloads through Facebook. Lovely will provide a new way to share app preferences and will harness the wide social networks of users to spread interests for new apps. Lovely will change the way people discover new apps.

Memories
Taking the best from both worlds, Memories combines audio clips and photos (with a touch of filtering) to provide users the ability to record, share, and view memories with ease and efficiency. This new medium takes advantage of the hardware capabilities of modern smartphones to optimize the amount of data users are sharing.

NapTime
NapTime is an Android application that integrates generic alarm clock features with GPS technology. The application is aimed mainly at users who are required to commute locally and extremely often, with secondary uses falling under the category of location-based reminders. In integrating the alarm clock with GPS technology, we have envisioned a system that will ring an alarm based on proximity to a location rather than to a specific time.

Alarms with Friends
Alarms with Friends is an easy way to ensure that you and your friends wake up on time. For example, you can set a group alarm for your friends to wake up in time for soccer practice. On the other hand, a preselected list of friends can be notified if you don't get out of bed when your alarm goes off.

BrainWars
BrainWars is an app that keeps tracks of how much you study weekly and encourages people to not only study more, but to study socially! BrainWars provides the facility of the users to see when and where people are studying at MIT, and connects students that are working for the same class at the same time! You can share with your friends how your studying is going and you get points when you study at special MIT Community's "Hotspots"!

ScreenSquared
The ScreenSquared app allows groups of smartphone users to expand web content over multiple smartphone screens. This will allow friends to collectively view Facebook photos, YouTube videos, Wikipedia articles, and other web content more easily.

Spacehold
Spacehold is an app that plans to revolutionize managing shared spaces for clubs. Using state of the art technologies like geolocation and triangulation, it automatically updates the club's status when users visit and leave the club's common area.

Zephyr Mobile
Zephyr Mobile provides a modern, mobile interface to MIT's Zephyr messaging system. It consists of an Android app paired withck-It aims to provide a scheduling platform that can support tasks in real life - which are often flexible, splittable, or sometimes, even skippable. To do so with minimum input from the user, Dock-it uses a genetic algorithm to create optimized schedules, which incorporate user location, preferences, and available time - effectively converting a to-do list into an ideal schedule!

ScriptMe
ScriptMe is an application to simplify the daily routines of your life. Users create Scripts of tasks that they often complete through ScriptMe's simple and straightforward interface. Once Scripts have been recorded, they can be played back by both voice commands and shortcuts, which means they can be ran directly from the home screen without having to open ScriptMe, and thus making the process simple, and quick.

Hangout
At its core, Hangout provides its users the ability to quickly see which of their friends are free and nearby. Avoiding cumbersome manual input, each user’s calendar and geographic location are used to automatically determine their availability. Developed for Android, Hangout is meant to be used in daily life as an unobtrusive, helpful tool which enables people to more easily meet up in person.

Bump Into Me
Bump Into Me—making location sharing more social. The goal of this project is to create new opportunities for people, college students in particular, to bump into their friends and share their experiences on social networking platforms."

Virtual Tours
Virtual Tours aims to be a dynamic, smart-routed tourism application. Virtual Tours provides users with a tour tailored to their interest and the ability to add and remove attractions from the tour. For institutions, Virtual Tours hopes to eliminate the need for a custom-built tour application by providing the application and a framework for creating a tour within it.

GetList
GetList is an icebreaker app that makes meeting new people fun. While earning points for Bumping phones with other conference/event goers makes GetList entertaining, having the names and faces of people you've met automatically loaded onto your mobile device makes GetList helpful well after the conference/event has ended. We are currently prepping iPhone and Android versions for a short trial during CPW; we’ll then test GetList in a professional setting at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Gathering in Germany this summer; after that, well--you’ll help us figure that one out!

BeiRoute
BeiRoute is a time management application that helps people stay on schedule, especially when traveling between locations. Users can record useful data about the routes that they take most often (e.g. from home to work); this data includes the duration of the trip and the path taken. Users can then set alarms that will take into account travel time and alert them when it is time to leave one location in order to get to the next on time.

Shopaholics
Our application provides a platform for users to record and share their preferences on grocery goods. By allowing users to view their own preferences, their family's preferences, and global ratings, Shopaholics enables better decision making at the grocery store.

FriendFindr
FriendFindr is a mobile application that promotes social interactions by allowing users to easily find their friends on a map and send out a group message to selected friends. Our application uses geolocation to pinpoint the GPS coordinate of people on the user’s friends list and status updates to let users know what their friends are doing. We facilitate social interactions by allowing users to easily find out where and when friends are available.

Kaana
Kaana is a mobile application that facilitates collaborative production of photo albums for specific events. Kaana creates a new sense of engagement for the event participants, while simultaneously producing a diverse stock of photos for event organizers (and attendees) to keep. At any event, which can range from weddings, concerts, and company dinners, to less formal events or even casual photo sharing among friends, Kaana provides a mechanism for creating photo albums that is more collaborative, centralized, and convenient than any other existing method.

HuddleUp
HuddleUp allows people to form dynamic groups focused on activities that require a sufficient number of participants. We connect people with people based on interest in initiating an activity, as well as people with events that require more participants.