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Mobile Game Application: The Magictale, Lu Cao, Albert Chang, Yetian Mao

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Many smartphone games today consist of players making simple and repetitive actions with their fingers to play the game. Compared to traditional PC Role Playing games (RPG), current mobile games do not provide the same fictional aspects and complex components. Players creativity is almost non-existent in most simple mobile application games. To address this issue, we propose to create a IOS mobile application game which combines the complex components of traditional PC RPGs and touch screen actions of mobile games.

Resilient Families Project Web Application, Stephanie Servi, Patrick Neill

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

In order to help The Resilient Families Project, a stress management course for at-risk families, we have created an online application to allow users to take stress examinations more frequently, and to record their thoughts and interactions pertaining to the project. In this paper, we document our thought process, design rationale and any other relevant information to the web application for the Resilient Families Project.

Divy: A Website For Facilitating The Sharing And Purchasing Of Digital Content, Aidan Crosbie, Lauren Falzarano, Nicole Pal

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

For our senior design project, we designed and built software that allows people to easily sell and share digital content with others. Our system was implemented as a website where users may upload any kind of digital content of their own creation, and specify the price for which other users can download it. A user can upload up to three gigabytes of data for free; however, if they wish to charge money for downloads, our site will take a percentage of the downloads/downloads sale price. A number of technologies were used in order to accomplish this, including PHP, HTML5, CSS, …

Shoutboard : A New Locative Social Network, Evan Havlisch, Ketan Kumar, Tovin Thomas

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

This paper will illustrate the need for a better location based social network that utilizes the latest smartphone features. Over the course of this project, we created ShoutBoard. ShoutBoard is a way for people to share messages with the people geographically close by. We accomplish this by creating a system with a client-server architecture. The user will use the iPhone app or the website to interact with our server. The server will fetch messages that other users have posted and return them to the client. Within this document, we describe in detail the problem we wish to solve, the current …

Mobile Educational Forum, Suzanne Lien, Alexandria Shearer

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Good education is essential for youth around the world. However, many communities in the developing world do not have access to basic knowledge and resources, like HIV prevention, womens rights, and life skills. As a result, the youth in these communities grow up and face difficult substandard lives. The Mobile Educational Forum addresses these issues by enabling a central party to distribute educational information to youth in emerging markets by making use of resources they already have on hand--mobile phones. Through our mobile web application, young people not only receive valuable information, but are also able to engage in discourse …

Project Omoverhi : Low-Cost, Neonatal Incubator, Richard Fong, Guillermo Gallardo, William Jeffery, Danny Maeda, Gabriel Romero

Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses

Project Omoverhi, since its beginning in 2010-2011, has been focused on creating an incubator that has the capability of operating completely off grid. This year the project has been focused on redesigning the original system to reduce the cost to approximately $1000. In addition to this we have designed and implemented a control system that enables the user to set a desired temperature which can be maintained to within 1 degree Celsius. Before the project is able to be completed further work must be done. The thermal storage system that was initially proposed by the original team still needs to …

Kosmos : A Virtual 3-D Universe, John Judnich

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Kosmos is an application enabling interactive visualization of a fictional 3D universe. It offers users the opportunity to explore and experience an aesthetically pleasing virtual environment complete with billions of high-resolution planets and stars. Kosmos integrates several novel 3D rendering techniques in terrain rendering, large-scale particle systems, etc. to make this level of graphical realism and scale possible. The efficiency of the algorithms developed for this project enables average hardware (such as almost any modern laptop) to run Kosmos smoothly. Moreover, through the use of the recent WebGL standard, Kosmos may be viewed online in any modern web browser on …

Wireless Impact Detection System, Shawno Auwae, Kyle Terriere

Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses

Recently, brain trauma caused by multiple concussions has become a pressing issue for contact sports, mainly American football players. The severity of the impacts in these sports have led to discussion concerning the standard safety equipment used, as well as the rules enforcing a certain style of play. Multiple studies have shown that concussions have damaging long-term effects, including dementia and memory loss. The dominant professional football organization, the National Football League (NFL), employs qualified athletic trainers to diagnose and treat players with concussions, but many incidents still go undetected. This problem is magnified at the youth level, where the …

The Blue Plug : A Power Consumption Regulation System, Loquen Jones, Sahil Verma

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Our goal is to develop a system that reduces peak grid loads by 60%, which saves consumers and businesses money as well as protecting the environment by eliminating the use of fast start up generators. We accomplish this by implementing Arduinos --which are versatile microcontrollers-- equipped with networking technology that allows communication between houses in a neighborhood. Through this communication, we can schedule when appliances are used to avoid everyone using their appliances at the same time and we can eliminate the need for such exorbitant energy usage during peak hours. Our work implements ongoing research that is looking into …

Eventify : An Android-Based Planning Application, Bryson Lam, Jeff Matsunaga, Matt Tu

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

One of the common problems with social networking is the ability to plan out an event. Many applications available today simply provide for a broad or narrow audience of invitees. These tools also have the additional problem of being flooded with spam, and content with little interest to its users. To remedy this issue, we devised a new tool, Eventify. Eventify is an Android based application that potentially will make creating events and bringing groups of people together more feasible. We built this application with two main design constraints in mind: The application runs solely via text messaging, without a …

Muve : A Web Tool To Digitize Books, Elysia Chu, Victoria Hall, Maya Hough, Urvashi Urvashi

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Many Santa Clara University students have the luxury of having access to devices such as iPads and eBook readers which support many applications that make our lives easier. The numerous ways to read digital books today has significantly lowered the cost of gaining access to educational material. However, in rural developing communities in countries like India, this is not the case. Currently in India, people in some developing communities have basic mobile phones called feature phones which can perform basic functionalities such as texting, calling, and browsing the web. Feature phones are affordable and very popular in developing communities. There …

Mylife, Lauren Furumoto, Will Truettner

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

As we continue to utilize the web to manage organizations and institutions such as Santa Clara University Law School, we are challenged with the problem of keeping all of the different services in concise, cohesive interfaces. myLife attempts to consolidate currently scattered services relevant to SCU Law students and faculty into one dashboard for easy access and utilization. myLife requires only one set of credentials and displays the relevant mail, news, events, and course information for a given user on one userfriendly page.

Dynamic Poverty Heat Map, Jonathan Ahumada, Kurt Jurgens, Jasmine Farias

Computer Science and Engineering Senior Theses

Data management and analysis can become an overwhelming task when having to deal with large amounts of data. Fundación Paraguaya (FP), an organization that aims at reducing poverty in Paraguay, currently has been facing this data readability issue. The data from electronic surveys conducted by FP to measure poverty levels in different areas of Paraguay are currently presented in a complex and overwhelming manner via Excel spreadsheet. This method of data representation increases the risk of committing errors, as well as slows down the process of efficiently locating the areas of greatest needs and allocating the resources to these areas. …

Navigation & Control Of An Automated Swath Surface Vessel For Bathymetric Mapping, Ketan Rasal

Mechanical Engineering Master's Theses

With the abundant amount of water on the earth, the study of underwater terrain plays an important role in the use and sustainability of marine resources. A wide variety of technical systems are used to collect such bathymetric data, and autonomous vehicles are being explored as a manner in which to make this process more cost-effective. Students in Santa Clara University's Robotic Systems Laboratory are contributing to this effort through the development of an autonomous SWATH boat that can create such maps. As part of this thesis work, the navigation and control system of this SWATH boat has been significantly …

Pc-Based Automated Control System For Jordan Northern Grain Silo, Salem Al-Agtash

Computer Science and Engineering

This paper presents a PC-based automated control system operation of the Northern Grain Silo of Jordan. The system connects to a PLC (programmable logic controller) device, and combines operator interface, PLC programming and monitoring functions into one platform. The PLC portion handles direct operations control, while the PC portion handles interfacing and data intensive functions. A simulation package is developed. The package generates a graphical user interface for real-time graphic animations of the Grain Silo operation. We discuss anticipated benefits of such a system and phases of implementation.

Extension Of Model-Based Fault Diagnosis Techniques For Network Systems, Ahmed Naail Abeer

Computer Science and Engineering Master's Theses

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Integrated Home Server, Santiago John Rose

Computer Science and Engineering Master's Theses

Since the advent of the microprocessor in the 1970s, the market for consumer electronics has exploded with new devices changing the way we live and do business. Today, mobile phones, cameras, PCs, iPads, mp3 players, network media players, security systems, automation and IT systems, all have common functionality and there is an increasing need for unification of access to all these devices around a common server based architecture to unlock the benefits of smart integration and to simplify access for the end user.

IHS project is designed to provide to its business and home owners a unified network for all …

Toward A Fair Transactive Energy Market: A Deeplearning Based Energy Consumption Prediction Model, Yuka Hatori

Computer Science and Engineering Master's Theses

The application of machine learning is vast and quickly spreading across disciplines because of its versatile utility. By nature, machine learning implementations can quickly be obfuscated and ultimately introduce and perpetuate discriminatory practices, which leads to the issue of fairness. Transactive energy and the distribution of energy management technologies allow for new participants, meaning individual households and entities smaller than large energy providers, to enter the market to buy and sell energy. Machine learning has potential for meaningful use in many aspects of the transactive energy market process, and we focus on the specific aspect of how individual households can …