Project deliverables – American sign language interpreter

Report:HHH – Gabellec Geoffroy – final report

Poster: poster

Zero Energy Homes – Final Project Deliverables

Abstract:

Zero Energy Homes is a Survey project conducted and completed as a course requirement of CS 8803 – Happy Healthy Home for the semester of Spring 2010. It analyzes the concept of a ZEH, conducts a survey to take into account people’s opinion. We also include seven easy steps to convert or build a home with zero energy design.

From the analysis of the survey, we draw some useful inferences that are presented in the following sections. ZEH are said to have a considerable impacton the environment and this project survey considers people’s opinion regarding the same. The concept of a zero energy home is now becoming common, and more and more people have started adapting their home amenities / utilities in a way that abide by the Zero Energy Design.

Project Report: HHH_Report_final

Poster: HHH_Poster

Presentation: HHH

Thanks and Regards,

Anuja Chockalingam(902 606 234)

Surabhi Satam

Mood Response Environment

Introduction to a Mood Response Environment

Mood Response Environment

Kitchen Planner

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By:

Bhanupriya Gupta

Shikhar Suri

Improve Interactions & Spatial Recognitions @ Home

Jee Yeon Hwang

Project Idea
Designing interactions between physical and virtual spaces
to improve interactions & spatial recognitions @ home

Link: Presentation Slides

Patient / Elderly care and notification system using indoor localization

Technology behind our project:

Indoor localization has been a popular topic of research in ubiquitous computing.

žOur aim is to use Wi-Fi based indoor localization techniques to locate movement of a person (patient/elderly person) over a period of time inside the house.

Our present design consists of installing 4 wifi routers at four corners of a house. The house can be divided into a virtual grid. Each grid would cover a particular area within the house. For example, grids 4,5,6,7 could be the kitchen or something like this. A mobile device can be used to read the signal strength of each access point in each grid of the house. By building a database of such signal strength values, we can assign signal strength signatures to each grid. Now we can successfully identify each corner of the house and locate our mobile device anywhere within the house.

Use cases for this technology:

1. žUse this technology to determine motion pattern of a patient/elderly over time.

2. žProfile his/her activity data and then use this data in future to find any deviation from normal behavior.

3. Report any abnormalities. Select a threshold value beyond which an activity if repeated or carried out in a way other then normal, will be termed as abnormal and will be reported to the observer. For example, if an elderly person is in the restroom for more than an hour although the usual time taken is just 30 minutes, it could indicate some emergency situation.

Presentation is given below..

Elderly/Patient monitoring system

– Siddharth Gupta

– Ramakrishnan C H

Navigation made Easy

Navigation around the house can be a problem when there is not enough light around like in the middle of the night when you want to use the washroom or the lights suddenly go off. Younger adults are better able to handle these situations because of their sharper senses and cognitive skills. However, older adults may not be as sharp and hence they are the target audience of the project.

The project aims to help these older adults move about the house using visual and light based cues. It can also be extended to finding objects of frequent and everyday use.

The presentation below gives a brief idea about the project:

Happy Healthy Home PPT

Project Ideas – Zero Energy Homes

A ZEH combines state-of-the-art, energy efficient construction techniques and equipment

with renewable energy systems to return as much energy as it takes on an annual basis.

Goal:

•Reduce carbon footprint

•Increase energy efficiency

Steps to a Successful Zero Design Home

1.Decrease the energy requirements for space heating, cooling and water heating.

2.Increase the efficiency of the furnace (or heat pump), and the air-conditioner.

3.Install a solar hot water pre-heat system, an efficient backup water heater, and an efficient distribution system.

4.Install efficient lighting fixtures.

5.Install efficient appliances.

6.Install a properly sized photovoltaic (PV) system.

7.Turn off lights, computers, and appliances when not in use.

Zero Energy Homes

By

Anuja Chockalingam

Surabhi Satam

Happy Healthy Chef!

My idea is to create a virtual cooking tutor. It is well-known that cooking for yourself is much healthier than buying pre-made food. The difficulty is to acquire the recipe, understand it, and possess the skill to recreate the recipe. Making it even more difficult is lack of feedback, until you have the finished product (and then you find out it’s terrible).

The Happy Healthy Chef leverages the rising popularity of touchscreen PC in kitchens and the wealth of self-help videos online. The idea is to create a software application that helps you interpret the recipes, show you videos of cooking techniques, and uses integrated webcam to evaluate your intermediate results. The end result of this, is that user’s perception of cooking becomes much more pleasant and easy to do. Cook Happy! Eat Healthy! Be a Chef!