Projects

The data analysis team is attempting to extract useful statistics and other data from the data collected during lectures. Currently they are working on cutting down the length of a lecture based on notes that students take during it.

The touchscreen tech team is looking at new and alternative ways to track touch input on flat screen monitors, preferrably pen-based. Their main goals are to find or develop a technology that is both extremely precise and fairly cheap. They are currently working on adapting an existing pen digitization system to work with a monitor.

The lecture UI team is working on designing and coding an easy to use user interface for lecturers to use while giving their lectures. So far there have been three UI iterations, each one using a different UI toolkit. The lecture UI also has a back-end that leaverages GStreamer for multimedia processing, Cairo for annotation rendering, and various other GObject based libraries to capture and save lecture content.

This project entails building a multi-touch surface using a LCD TV. Multi-touch technology allows programmers to create interactive graphical user interfaces that are more natural to use.