Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

Lyraquist: Language Learning Via Music App, Vivian D'Souza, Siri Avula, Mahi Patel, Tanvi Singh, Ashley Bickham

Senior Theses

Lyraquist is a new language learning mobile app that encourages the practice of a foreign language through music. Language learners can connect their Spotify Premium account to Lyraquist to listen to music in their target languages and utilize tools such as translation and vocabulary lists to facilitate language practice. Through integration with Spotify, users can import and create Spotify playlists and search the service’s entire catalog. By combining daily listening habits with several tasks associated with language learning in one place, Lyraquist hopes to be a useful language learning tool.

Elevating Academic Administration: A Comprehensive Faculty Dashboard For Tracking Student Evaluations And Research, Musa M. Azeem

Senior Theses

The USC Faculty Dashboard is a web application designed to revolutionize how department heads, professors, and instructors monitor progress and make decisions, providing a centralized hub for efficient data storage and analysis. Currently, there’s a gap in tools tailored for department heads to concisely manage the performance of their department, which our platform aims to fill. The USC Faculty Dashboard offers easy access to upload and view student evaluation and research information, empowering department heads to evaluate the performance of faculty members and seamlessly track their research grants, publications, and expenditures. Furthermore, professors and instructors gain personalized performance analysis tools, …

Making Music Social: Creating A Spotify-Based Social Media Platform, Dalton J. Craven

Senior Theses

DKMS is a new type of social media platform for music lovers and groups of friends. It integrates tightly with Spotify, one of the largest music streaming services in the world. Users of DKMS can see what their friends are listening to, receive recommendations of new songs to listen to, and analyze their several key numerical metrics (happiness, danceability, loudness, and energy) of their top songs.

DKMS was built as part of the year-long Capstone senior design course at the University of South Carolina. A deployed app is visible at https://dkms.vercel.app, and the open-source code is visible at https://github.com/SCCapstone/DKMS.

Cook-It!: A Web Application For Easy Meal Planning, Carol Juneau

Senior Theses

Cook-it! is a web application for meal planning based on the Django framework and deployed on the Heroku platform. This application has an intuitive interface to make it easy to use. The project has been developed over two semesters, roughly separated into a planning phase and an implementation phase. Cook-it! incorporates a robust feature set and an attractive design. Its core purpose is to make it easy for users to plan meals, interact with other users, and keep track of user information such as a grocery list.

Interactive Sc Historical Map Application By Capistonsker, Joseph Cammarata, James Davis, Matt Duggan, Lauren Hodges, Ian Urton

Senior Theses

The Interactive SC Historical Map Application by CapiStonsker, hereby known as CapiStonsker, is an android application that creates a comprehensive user experience for individuals and groups to engage with their local Columbia history. Users of this application can discover local historical landmarks by scrolling through the interactive map on the home screen, searching for markers by name using the search bar, filtering by county, or scrolling through a list of markers sorted by proximity. If a marker catches a user's attention, he or she can tap it to learn more information, get directions, or save it for later by adding …

Proximity-Based Video Communication With Cocktailparty, Addison Fabry, William Heffernan, Andrew Shroyer

Senior Theses

CocktailParty is a video communication application designed to uniquely and efficiently solve the problems faced by traditional online video communication. The proposal for this start-up project was accepted in August 2020. CocktailParty enables users to join a video chat room overlayed on top of a virtual house, in which each user can move their own video feed around the house. Each room in each house layout hosts a different video call, allowing users to easily host large virtual gatherings that facilitate multiple conversations taking place simultaneously. This functionality makes important steps towards effective simulation of the real-life gathering experience.

The Adoption Of Cryptocurrency Technology Into The Us Banking Infrastructure, Trevor Melito

Senior Theses

This thesis examines the possibility of using Blockchain technology to permanently change the payment structure of the US banking system. First, I examine the current technology that dominates the banking sector. I introduce the most frequently used payments methods including Automatic Clearing House transfers and wire transfers, both domestically and internationally. In addition, I highlight the major players controlling these transactions. Under the current system, frictions between senders and receivers cause billions of dollars in losses each year.

Next, I examine Blockchain’s roots along with some similar cryptocurrency technology, namely Distributed Ledger Technology and Smart Contracts. The transparency, security, and …

Preparing For The Future: The Effects Of Financial Literacy On Financial Planning For Young Professionals, Tanay Singh

Senior Theses

Purpose – Many people between the age of 20 and 34 have not considered planning financially for the future in any significant capacity and in doing so, they limit their potential savings. The purpose of this study is to examine what financial expectations are for people in the early stages of their career and determine if improving financial literacy and revealing financial realities helps to produce more accurate or realistic expectations. Ultimately, the goal is to better prepare participants in the study for the working world and increased responsibilities outside of the college/university environment by getting them to start thinking …

Lablineup: An Intuitive Web Application For Queueing Help Requests In Academic Labs, Graham Mcdonald

Senior Theses

LabLineup is a start-up project designed to address the needs of large, lab-based classes, where teaching assistants (TAs) struggle to assist students in the order in which they request help. LabLineup is a lightweight web application that allows TAs and professors to accept requests for help in order. LabLineup allows professors to view the requests for a lab and see frequently asked questions that can be addressed en masse rather than individually. LabLineup also allows students to provide TA feedback. LabLineup addresses issues arising from requesting help in large, lab-based classes in the most efficient manner possible.

Estimating And Visualizing Debt Using Debt Calculator, Donald E. Landrum Jr., Caleb D.H. Parks

Senior Theses

Debt Calculator is a web application that our team developed this year to assist users in understanding and visualizing both their current debt sources, such as student loans, car loans, and credit card debt, and the impact that upcoming career choices, such as where they attend graduate school or which job offer they accept, will have on their standards of living and savings accounts. All of the data that our application bases its analysis upon is entered by the user, and none of the algorithms that our application performs are particularly unique or proprietary; rather, the value that our application …

Google Street View As A Medium For Social Gaming, Steven Dao, Tien Ho, Austin Pahl

Senior Theses

safehouse is a head-to-head Street View game drawing inspiration from GeoGuessr and Pursued. It will be available to play in a web browser on our website, http://thesafe.house. The game aims to let players discover new places in the world in a uniquely competitive way. At the start of each match, players will find themselves in a random Street View location in an unknown area, pitted against each other with one of two tasks: the pursued must locate a safe house somewhere in the city, and the pursuer must catch the pursued. Each player will have to rely on quick …

The Nano-Adventures Of Gold And Silver: An Ios Game, Elizabeth Pruett

Senior Theses

The Nano-Adventures of Gold and Silver is an iOS game intended for young students to learn about nanoscience and the benefits and harms of various nanoparticles in the environment, originally created by the Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk. This project exists as the first iteration of a game about two superheroes, Nano-Gold and Nano-Silver, who invite players along as they use their powers to deal with different scenarios. Over the course of a year, the game was designed, developed, and tested; the resulting application includes user authentication capabilities, an origin story detailing the Nano-Girls narrative, and a complete level, …