Project deliverables include slides for pitch to potential investors as well as supporting documents including (a) trends analysis supporting plausibility of project; (b) required technological infrastructure; and (c) description of the broader socio-cultural context of the data set.
Introducing a program designed to help undergraduate students identify, set, and reach healthy nutrition goals during this transitional time in their lives. Utilizing specific tools and technologies, such as RFID tags and weight sensors, the program will be supported by existing data from each student's use of the University ID. The Food Coach will accompany students throughout their college careers, supporting and encouraging their healthy eating habits as they make their food choices.
Our project explores UCLA's role as a premier filming location for tv shows and movies. IMBD (the Internet Movie Database) lists 134 titles that use the campus as a backdrop. As members of the UCLA community, we are used to having our routine trips across campus interrupted by rope cordons, studio trucks, and catering tents. We are also used to seeing our campus presented to us, in movies and tv shows, as the generic American learning institution. UCLA's role as a film set both influences our day-to-day interactions on campus and it is the source of a unique relationship with media that is specific to the UCLA community. Our starting point is to take this role seriously - to consider the campus' function as a set and as the background for the movies and shows we love as the principal function of UCLA as an institution. Through this lens, we are rethinking the notion of the campus orientation. Our project consists of a mobile phone app that members of the UCLA community can use to navigate, discover, and engage with the UCLA film set/campus.
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This mobile application will help students maintain high levels of personal success with real-time, real-life, data driven feedback about actual and proven steps towards success when you need it most. Keeping track of your academic progress, Success Tracker will monitor thresholds and provide feedback for improvement based on data mined from the networks of your most accomplished peers. Success tracker will get you the objective information you need, when you need it, to keep yourself on the right track.
An information system that shares emotions within an academic library. Students in the library often feel stressed and isolated. Our revolutionary system measures the location and activity not only of bodies but also of moods. By quantifying and visualizing the academic library's affective dimensions, our system validates and encourages struggling students at the same time that it reveals often-ignored aspects of academic life.
Inspired by current trends in education and the rising popularity of unbundling previously inclusive services, the Edumeter allows university students the ability to select the educational experience that fits their needs and budget by charging them for each individual educational service they choose to take advantage of: classes, conversations with professors, time spent in the library, as well as parking, medical insurance, and other options. The obsolete concept of tenure is replaced by rational metrics for calculating the value of professors' tutelage, and students pay accordingly.
As universities struggle to quantify their impact and students their learning, we find ourselves turning to measurable data for solutions. By utilizing brain wave activity measured with portable, wireless and lightweight EEG devices, students and professors can adjust their habits to facilitate learning, while administrators can utilize the data to make decisions concerning the university.
After realizing the monetary value of rich student information collected on campus, the data-driven research university aimed to ease budget constraints by entering a business partnership with a high-profile search engine company to create BruinWatch, a Digital Student Identity Managment System (DSIMS). BruinWatch is responsible for collecting information, aggregating content, and creating comprehensive student profiles that are accessible by all university personnel for educational, social, and security purposes. In return for providing the funding and infrastructure necessary for BruinWatch, the search-engine company receives a copy of all data collected. Through tracking student location on campus at all times and geo-tagging activity, BruinWatch simplifies all perspectives of student life on campus— from coursework, employment, and event attendance to gaining access to campus buildings and social networking.
Our project explores the relationship between student engagement and technologies designed to monitor and enhance participation. By directing the complicated analytical tools required to handle Big Data at the classroom environment, we propose a future where teachers can post as many readings as they like, student behaviors can be monitored to exacting detail, and students will be able to determine their level of participation based on their own wishes. Through analysis of assigned readings, classroom discussions, and submitted essays across the world the student 10 years into the future will have the opportunity to engage in a vibrant academic environment with the brightest minds of multiple generations regardless of time zone. They will also have the opportunity to allow such analytical tools to do their scholarly heavy lifting for them, subverting the intended use of this technology and allowing them to skate by with an unimpressive GPA. It is our assertation that while new technologies will vastly change the speed and quality of scholarly pursuit, there is no technological fix for disinterested students. In order to successfully implement the collaborative educational environment of the future, UCLA must be actively aware of the habits of its most successful students as well as its least active. Our team has devised a solution that will monetize the sharing of student intellectual materials which in turn will help close UCLA's monstrous budget gap and provide funding for participating students.
