IEEEmadC: Where students from all over the world compete to make best mobile applications to impact people's lives.
In this report, along with the introduction of contest, some top highly recognized & appreciated mobile applications designed and published at IEEEmadC have been showcased. Also, their impact along with downloadable link and a YouTube Video Link for demonstration has also been attached.
Back in 1983, Steve Jobs while attending International Design Conference in Aspen anticipated a future where every individual will have amazingly great computer in a book or specifically of the size of hand that they can carry around and learn how to use them in just 20 minutes.
Today, we are in fact surrounded by such amazingly great computers. We’re talking about smart phones and how amazingly people have leveraged the device availability in our pockets to improve our live standards and norms. Nevertheless, what makes a mobile phone “smart” is inclusion of smart applications or shortly termed app. Apps put the smart in smart phones and other electronic devices such as tablets, laptops and etc. that has these smart apps embedded in them. Considering the figurative relationship between electronic devices and smart applications, a rise in smart phones markets naturally led to a growth of app market. Most widely recognized and used is Google Play Store.
The best thing about smart apps is they have literally changed the life style for everyone, from hiring a taxi to ordering clothes and getting our houses repaired & maintained, our life has become much easier than ever before. It might have been an extra few years ago, but now it has become a natural partner and pick for our lives. Features such as promising, rapid and appropriate are what make it truly ubiquitous, making us able to retrieve our data and use it anywhere being at any time.
With such high demanding market, the businesses have shifted from webpages to mobile applications that offers them high growth and fast responsive interaction with people all around. From booking your flights, bus or train tickets, locate nearby restaurants or shopping areas and ordering your meal, the corporate and app entrepreneurs have it covered all.
Very soon, global organizations such as World Bank, United Nations and many others felt the need of time and started promoting their own customized mobile applications development contest for students and young professionals. With the initiation of such competitions, not only these organizations wanted to solicit application ideas but they also wanted to encourage and instill a sense of responsibility among the huge pool of students worldwide studying mobile applications development to utilize their talent and design apps that are smart, useful and socially responsible. Moreover, reputed schools such as MIT, Stanford and others planned their own mobile application development contests to prepare future technology leaders by such exercise.
IEEE is believed to be one of the largest global professional societies with technologists, scientists and inventors around its portfolio and having hundreds of thousands of student members from all over the world, it certainly wasn’t offering any competition in mobile application development field until IEEEmadC came-in 2013 with a mission to educate and encourage students to become MAD (Mobile Application Developers), develop awesome mobile applications, build their engineering, team and entrepreneurial skills, and consequently start their own company or become more competitive in the labor market.
From a huge pool of developed applications, following are some of the mobile apps created by student participants that have been declared winners, or achieved huge popularity or have been downloaded many times to create a significant impact.
Eye-Type The Eye Type application allows users to input text to a mobile device, using only the movements of their eyes. Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile Application Contest) and it won the Computer Society Special Award. The Eye Type application has been developed by students from Greece, Region 8 and has been downloaded more than 5,000 times and has a rating of 3.6/5 from feedback of 40 users.
Downloadable Link to Eye Type:
Collegiate The Collegiate application allows users to learn at world’s most prestigious universities. Join these colleges — view their courses, schedule course alarms, write notes with your lecture. Collegiate has 650+ courses from 5 universities as of now — MIT, Stanford, IIT, Yale, University of California, Berkeley — and many more to come.
Application Contest and it won the Young Professionals Special Award. The Collegiate application has been developed by students from University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany, Region 8 and has been downloaded more than 5,000 times and has a rating of 4.5/5 from feedback of 64 users.
Downloadable Link to Collegiate:
YouTube Video Demonstration:
IEEE Connected Learning IEEE Connected learning provides access to the various IEEE online resources like IEEE Collabratec™, IEEEXplore Digital Library, myIEEE, IEEE Digital Tool Box, Spectrum, Safari and IEEE Computer Society.Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile Application Development Contest) and it won the Best Team Application Award. The IEEE Connected Learning application has been developed by Sangram Chavan from India, Region 10.
Downloadable Link to Connected Learning:
YouTube Video Demonstration:
MooCle The application idea is to make search engine named by “Moocle” like “Google” to help students (under or post graduate) to be opened to the Massive Open Online Courses, where you easily can satisfy your learning needs.
The searching engine will help IEEE in the advertising their “IEEE Academic” program and another Online Courses which is presented by IEEE.org. It provides you searching for Online Courses from A to Z from a bunch of great universities around the world and great websites which provide a large number of courses that help you be Erudite, If you’re a Geek or want to be, then it’s the right place for you.
Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2015 (Mobile Application Development Contest) http://ieeemadc.org/ and it won the Highest Popularity Application Award. The applications were designed by a group of students from Benha University, Egypt, Region 8.
Downloadable Link to MooCle:
Hitch The Hitch application helps the students in making their travel to and from the college convenient. A student can look out for someone who is going to university or coming back home and can get a lift from them. It is a school car-pooling application.
Application was designed for IEEEmadC 2016 contest and won the Computer Society Special Award. It was designed by a group of students from India, Region 10.
Downloadable Link to Hitch:
YouTube Video Demonstration:
Munch The Munch application is an intelligent nutrition tracker that analyses your diet, and gives food suggestions based on micro and macronutrient deficiencies. It utilizes the USDA’s food composition database of over 8,000 food items and tracks 40 different properties about the foods you eat. Your historical nutrition information is checked against the USDA’s “Dietary Reference Intakes” for both “Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range” and “Recommended Daily Intake.” This information is then used in order to determine your best course of action and inform you about how to improve your diet.
This application was developed for the 2015 IEEEmadC and it won the Best Design Award. It was designed by a group of students from Rowan University IEEE Student Branch (R2 — Easter USA).
Downloadable Link to Munch:
YouTube Video Demonstration:
WikiAni The WikiAni application is about providing a Mobile-Cloud service that explains things to non-technical people or technical people with time constraints for understanding them in an intuitive way — Animations. Users take pictures/text inputs from their mobile devices using client software, and send it to a cloud based service. The cloud service identifies the object in the image or extracts the target from text inputs; based on the identified object returns an animation clips that explains how the thing works.
Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2014 (Mobile Application Development Contest) and it won the Computer Society Special Award.
YouTube Video Demonstration:
myIEEE The myIEEE application gives access to its every member to have links to conferences, news, publications and others useful things of the IEEE community. This application simplifies the access to these resources through smartphones. Everyone will have, from their smartphone app, a clean view of IEEE news, upcoming conferences and new publications; there will be also the possibility to view and search others members (like MemberNet) and to see videos from IEEE TV.
Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2014 (Mobile Application Development Contest) it won the Team Winner Award. This application was designed by students of Politecnico di Milano, Italy, Region 8.
Downloadable Link to myIEEE:
Alzheimer Watcher The Alzheimer Watcher is a mobile application that collects Alzheimer patient data (vital signs, fall incidents, physical location, etc…) via mobile phone sensors and additional sensors connected to an Arduino board. In addition, the application checks GPS coordinates in case where the patient leaves the perimeter of the safe zone (another parameter set by the user). Moreover, the collected data is logged on a web-database for data trends reporting.
Application was developed for the IEEEmadC 2014 (Mobile Application Development Contest) by student team from Lebanon, Region 8.
Downloadable Link to Alzheimer Watcher:
IEEEmadC project has positively impacted many people all around the world so far and most of our participants have continue to work in the field of mobile application development, developed new mobile applications and shared the knowledge with other students. We expect that IEEEmadC contest and community will grow and become one of the largest in the world and one of the major online places for the education in a field of mobile applications development.
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This story is compiled together by Sarang Shaikh, Chair for IEEEmadC 2017. At IEEEmadC he is surrounded by Dr. Josip Balen, Founding Father of IEEEmadC and an amazing group of volunteer’s in “Mustache Team”- that’s what IEEEmadC team like to call itself. For viewing and knowing more about team, please visit the link below:
Thank you so much to our Sponsors, Great People who have served as Judges and all the team members.
