Jeff Terrell: Alright, so stroke of 125 we have very little time to spare so we'll go ahead and get started first person up is amanda brumfield.
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Jeff Terrell: hey everyone thanks so much for having me today, my name is amanda brumfield and i'm a career coach and the honors Carolina Program.
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Jeff Terrell: Try that there we go Thank you no problem and the project that i'm here today to discuss is the honors Carolina database for resumes and beyond.
Jeff Terrell: So here's the problem, as we see it, so an honors Carolina at any one time, we have about 2000 students.
Jeff Terrell: Those students are across tons of different majors and, of course, they also have lots of different experiences and interests that they're bringing to the table as well.
Jeff Terrell: So we know that students really benefit from seeing actual samples to other students create.
Jeff Terrell: or other students have created when students are creating their own resumes cover letters or other application materials like that.
Jeff Terrell: The problem, though, is as soon as sometimes can't find the samples that are most relevant and best meet their needs.
Jeff Terrell: For example, suppose you're in a computer science class and you have a really great project that you've just created but you're not exactly sure how to put on your resume in a way that's most impactful.
Jeff Terrell: It would be really great to see how other students have done that, but maybe you don't know anyone else to ask about that.
Jeff Terrell: So here we also you know you could look online, to see if there's you know, maybe some other resumes that you could find, but how do you know about the quality of what you're finding.
Jeff Terrell: You could ask for samples from a coach like me, but the number of samples that we have is pretty limited, sometimes we can only cover so many different majors experiences things like that.
Jeff Terrell: Also, you can meet with the coach like me one on one to go over your resume and we'd help you tailor it, but we wanted something on the front end that that will empower students before then we help them find the information they need, as quickly as possible.
Jeff Terrell: So here's the solution that we're hoping for we're hoping for an honest Carolina database where students can easily filter vetted resumes.
Jeff Terrell: from other students to find matches to help inspire students, as they create their own materials.
Jeff Terrell: For example, you could go on there and be really inspired by the format of one resume.
Jeff Terrell: And really like how research it's described in another, and like how awards are described in the third and they kind of put it all together make it your own in your own words, and the way that really fits what you want.
Jeff Terrell: That way, instead of you, having someone else's mold based on a stamp random sample that you get you can really make it something that really meets your needs.
Jeff Terrell: So we're envisioning a browser based tool this tool will not store the files, instead, it would be a tagging and filtering interface for existing databases, where the files can be stored anywhere, such as Google drive Microsoft shareholders, etc.
Jeff Terrell: So staff would add the tags and for each document that we receive and then students will search for documents by tags.
Jeff Terrell: And although the initial use case will be for resumes we see this as going beyond that to hopefully that this can be adapted for cover letters personal statements other documents to the sky's the limit.
Jeff Terrell: So here's an example of really simplified version of how the tagging could work so first there would be a tag for the type of document is is such as a resume.
Jeff Terrell: you'd add another tag for Class here and then other tags for different things like if the student has Python or Java or a project experience there be other tags for majors things like that as well.
Jeff Terrell: So this is a show the search relationship diagram I won't spend a lot of time on this, but it kind of works how pretty much any other filtering would work online right you type in maybe.
Jeff Terrell: You want computer science major resumes for class of 2024 and it brings you back results and those results may have additional tags, but those, but they do have those tags that you wanted at a minimum.
Jeff Terrell: So here's also simplified version of our workflow where a student would drop the resume into an accepted location, an admin review of the resume was somehow be triggered.
Jeff Terrell: Then the admin person would review the resume such as taking out the person's name other personally identifiable information fixing any typos and then, of course, adding into the all important tags.
Jeff Terrell: Then the admin would grant permission for the resume to become searchable within the database interface, and then finally users, the students can then search for the resume based on tags.
Jeff Terrell: here's some other features that you'd like to discuss as well with whoever does our project different roles different capacity.
Jeff Terrell: text search capability um you know, although the tags are incredibly important.
Jeff Terrell: We also want to explore the import the possibility for having students, be able to type in keywords like that.
Jeff Terrell: i'm just realizing that these are the texts off the slides here, so my apology um but also of course we want some a user interface to for.
Jeff Terrell: The back end of adding removing tags things like that, but also for students to be able to the ui of course persons to be able to find the resumes themselves.
Jeff Terrell: Then there's other nice to have features from metrics and also quality control as well, so thank you so much for considering this project we really appreciate it until you pick us thank you.
Jeff Terrell: All right next up i'm Clark and.
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Jeff Terrell: hello, my name is Rebecca Clark i'm gonna analytical chemistry graduate student here, and this is that server and use a computer scientist that we collaborate with.
Jeff Terrell: um so I worked in electro chemistry and what we're trying to develop is a universal platform for diagnostic diagnostic monitoring via electrochemical sensors.
Jeff Terrell: And so we work Oh, the animations are gone, but basically I work with electro chemistry, oh no it's all good which provides highly sensitive measurements and is very common in point of care applications for both like medical things.
Jeff Terrell: As well as environmental sensing and it's generally thought to be a pretty expensive platform with instruments running anywhere from 5000 to $10,000.
Jeff Terrell: And so, our goal is to make electro chemistry accessible to everyone so we like to refer to the general population has citizen scientists.
Jeff Terrell: And so we want to develop a platform with a combined mobile APP that makes us accessible to the so called citizen scientists.
Jeff Terrell: And so what we do it all in my lab is called the sweet spot rich makeovers willing, in his hands here, and this is a low cost cost less than $50 per device on electric chemistry platform.
Jeff Terrell: So you can see the pictures here on the screen on the sweet side as well.
Jeff Terrell: As well as the mobile APP that has we've worked with this class before a couple times to get kind of the basic framework for the APP and so we're hoping to be able to finish that up this semester.
Jeff Terrell: And so you can see both the sweet spot, as well as the expensive instrument and the simulated data all match very well, so the instrument itself is up and working as well as the basic framework for an APP so far so initially the softer was made in lab.
Jeff Terrell: And again, we have worked with the class before to make an APP so far and so they've developed an experimental assist as well as being able to show the data once it's completed um.
Jeff Terrell: Now we have the I guess basic framework for communication with bluetooth and we're looking for adding additional functionality to the APP.
Jeff Terrell: And so, our goal is to finish the graphical user interface with improved aesthetics, as well as finish up.
Jeff Terrell: Just some bugs with the bluetooth communication and plotting data in real time, as well as adding in some data processing that can just kind of give us some data.
Jeff Terrell: Information like pk about the data as well as being able to upload to the cloud storage.
Jeff Terrell: and adding in filters that can remove instrumental noise and we want to the team last year developed in a framework, I believe was called fluttered that is able to export to ios and android, and so our goal is to get this on both platforms so it's most accessible to the general public.
Jeff Terrell: And so, some benefits for y'all obviously will get the APP but y'all have the opportunity to not just work with an APP but, as well as the actual hardware.
Jeff Terrell: So you'll get to work with bluetooth as well as hardware interfacing and the design of that and scientific instrument design, this is also a very high impact high visibility project.
Jeff Terrell: We worked with people in education, as well as God agencies, one of these is over, at the secret service right now actually.
Jeff Terrell: And it also is a good chance for letters of REC and we get emails from quite literally around the globe about this week that's where people in.
Jeff Terrell: Australia Hungary South Korea vm mar Germany and Japan and we're nearing the public was the opposite will be nearing a publication for the paper which you all, will be able to be on and so hopefully you like this project and we'll see some of y'all later.
Jeff Terrell: right next step maddox.
Jeff Terrell: I am amy medics from the biology department, but i'm here representing a company that I started to market an APP that will help.
Jeff Terrell: Make communities stronger so humans share a deep desire to be part of something larger than themselves whether that's a residential Community religious community or semi religious community.
Jeff Terrell: And so we have this deep impulse to connect as part of the whole.
Jeff Terrell: But that requires that someone is vulnerable and someone is generous and that way we can form important connections.
Jeff Terrell: And you may feel like the kind of connections, you can make on a day to day basis with new person.
Jeff Terrell: are really weak ties Well, we know from human psychology work, especially spearheaded by unc his own Barbara fredrickson.
Jeff Terrell: And from basic biochemistry looking at this sort of like supposed to be a piece of DNA that many, many weak ties can actually make a very strong connection within an organization or or a molecule.
Jeff Terrell: So here we all are individually pursuing our own fulfillment and actualization as well as the good of the organizations were part of what we're craving connection and belonging.
Jeff Terrell: So I created a tool called strengthen which right now is allows an administrator to generate randomly random combinations pairings or larger.
Jeff Terrell: of a group from the list of participants and then send it out to participants and then it's up to them by email or something to work out a time to meet for lunch take a walk or whatever, and then.
Jeff Terrell: After a set time interval like a week or a month or whatever and other combination is generated by that administrator and the key to the algorithm is that avoids previous combination, so you keep making new connections and strengthening the organization.
Jeff Terrell: i've used this in a number of different departments and institute's that i've been part of and colleague even used it for the orchestra that they're a part of and people really just love it they find.
Jeff Terrell: A really profound the fact that it's good for cohesion and sort of friendliness within an organization and that.
Jeff Terrell: meetings and other times that people come together within an organization become more collegial because of those many weak ties.
Jeff Terrell: And I think that's a neat that even these unsolicited feedback that people are able to say that help them see varying perspectives, which I think that's a really big priority too many people these days during this ongoing anti racist.
Jeff Terrell: reckoning So why am I here today it's because over on this side, we have a web based administrator tool, but like I said it's up to participants to.
Jeff Terrell: Do these clunky sometimes 617 emails to make those connections work, and I would love for a smartphone or even.
Jeff Terrell: desktop based APP to be able to facilitate those connections by facilitating scheduling like allowing participants to create like a template availability map that would just generate.
Jeff Terrell: suggestions for scheduling the APP could be a texting platform for people to follow up from conversations they had it could even allow somebody within a certain window of time of their meeting to do location sharing to just facilitate people knowing they're in the right place and.
Jeff Terrell: help those those events be meaningful by even providing conversations are some people have gotten together and they said, what are we supposed to do, what are we supposed to talk about and.
Jeff Terrell: I hope they could come up with something themselves, but maybe an organization, would like to use this like an enhanced version that provided topical sparks and then what I think would be really cool is if participating in this.
Jeff Terrell: activity was slightly game abide by allowing participants to collect some kind of tokens to show their level of participation.
Jeff Terrell: or even visualize the network like if each person started out as an isolated node and then each time they met up, they would find the connections and realize that as a whole, throughout the organization there's really been a lot of.
Jeff Terrell: Weak ties being established so thanks so much for your attention and.
Jeff Terrell: look forward to working with somebody.
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Jeff Terrell: hey guys how's everybody doing um so I um I have founded a volunteer organization called the earth stewards um we have cleaned up over 2 million pieces of litter, and this state and across the country.
Jeff Terrell: We we have primarily just been an organization that's like cleaning up litter and.
Jeff Terrell: and connecting with other people um but we've we are in the process of developing a website with a feature that I think you guys could contribute to and then pretty easy way, but also a really helpful way um, so we are.
Jeff Terrell: we're producing it is the litter map and what we're doing is we are mapping not only places where people clean up litter, but we're mapping places that people report litter.
Jeff Terrell: there's going to be a one button press where people can report, like trash they see on the side of a road, and we are adding functionality that that will automatically notify the local governments of that area and it's so it's.
Jeff Terrell: Live map, much like a Google maps and we'll have Google maps API.
Jeff Terrell: As the world will be using Google tiles are to look like Google as well um so we.
Jeff Terrell: were going to be producing a lot of valuable data for governments and the end is that we're going to be building a predictive map of littering and.
Jeff Terrell: I I personally have been cleaning up litter for 12 years i've cleaned up hundreds of locations and.
Jeff Terrell: This is just an example of locations in this area, so this is Chapel hill Durham raleigh, and this is like a very incomplete map of what we've done locally, but basically these are locations where we actually went and cleaned up places, but the.
Jeff Terrell: we're setting up a um we have like an Amazon RDS and we're going to be using like Amazon, as our cdn and we're doing a lot of.
Jeff Terrell: Back end work to get the website up and running, right now, but um so, but what we want to do is, we want to build this layer on top of our map, so the layer is like.
Jeff Terrell: it's a button, you can press, it will like show you eight.
Jeff Terrell: there's like i'm not sure if you guys are familiar with like layers to like maps or not, but anyway it's like yeah it'll be like an overlay for the map that will show you more data than just the map by itself.
Jeff Terrell: So the end it's going to be somewhat predictive of where litter is and we have, like the logic to go ahead and do that um.
Jeff Terrell: This is just one example and it's that trash begins near populated areas and flows down stream's away from them.
Jeff Terrell: So, like the one one way that we can already predict where litter is going to be is choose a populated area and and unpopulated one and then, just like identified the stream that runs away from that populated area as one that there's likely litter or plastic pollution in it.
Jeff Terrell: And we, you know we've actually eating this area of cleaned up thousands of pieces of trash from streams that run from like Durham, for instance, to Jordan lake.
Jeff Terrell: So the project has three parts you're pulling data you're.
Jeff Terrell: Forming logic and you're outfitting data, you can write in whatever language you want to um I would suggest Python but it's, this is not a program with a ui it's basically like.
Jeff Terrell: you're going to be doing something that we can we can use later on, that we will incorporate into the website and, by the way, like you, guys can get credit on the website to with However, you want to.
Jeff Terrell: This is the kind of an example, we are going to be using open street maps I don't know if you're familiar with that it's Community based mapping project where it's an open library of data.
Jeff Terrell: we're going to be taking key value pairs which are basically tags in the map and you're going to just query with API or download the whole library to get.
Jeff Terrell: All of the all have certain key value pairs that are proximity factors for littering so, for instance, like a convenience store there's more likely to be littered around the convenience store then say.
Jeff Terrell: You know, a restaurant, because the restaurant doesn't keep like give you stuff that people could potentially throw away outside the restaurant so anyway, the.
Jeff Terrell: So you're grabbing the key value pairs you can do it, however, you want to um you can like use the API query for certain amenities, that we will give you the list of amenities.
Jeff Terrell: Or you could even download the whole library um there's other there are also other data sources, if you oh shoot i'm going to slow.
Jeff Terrell: Okay um you can output, that this data is going to be processed with a logic that will give you and then we'll just ask you to output, a data and hopefully we'll be able to render that eventually.
Jeff Terrell: All right, thank you.
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Jeff Terrell: it's also like project a little better what's up guys, my name is Willie this is Ryan, one of my partners, we have a few other people on a project that couldn't be here today, but we are with the next generation of my life.
Jeff Terrell: So i'm sure everybody's been out to bars or something before.
Jeff Terrell: Everybody kind of goes to the same problems every single weekend anywhere anytime you try to go out with friends, you have to individually texts everybody figure out what's going on tonight.
Jeff Terrell: Before sondra go out you're looking around you're like okay what's left tonight what's not texting group chats hey where's everybody going tonight what's going on.
Jeff Terrell: there's really no easy way to go about this, and on the side of the actual bars there's no really easy way to network and to market these things to the consumers.
Jeff Terrell: Most of the bars around here, I know that i've worked with just use instagram stories to let people know what's going on, they post their deals everything every single night.
Jeff Terrell: So we are in development right now have a two sided solution to that right now show you the first part, that is going to be finished in about a week or two, we have a developer on our team is working on it right now.
Jeff Terrell: This is the wave APP it's going to be for the actual borrowers, so all of you.
Jeff Terrell: So, with the way that you're able to see how many people are at any bar and you don't are any given time, so I don't know i'm so nervous right now.
Jeff Terrell: How many of you or any bar at any given time, where all of your friends are at what everybody's doing tonight i'm alive look into the scene and pretty much just seeing what's going on, you can see all the deals that any bar and.
Jeff Terrell: And pretty much sourcing traffic data.
Jeff Terrell: So this is the part of the network that will be developing here with you guys, this is the business profile aside, where a lot of the data can be leveraged to do a lot of different things.
Jeff Terrell: So we're taking that data that's coming from the wave APP we're sourcing it into a back end network, and I should add it's being well done through firebase right now.
Jeff Terrell: For interpretation, we could change things around but right now everything's being code out in firebase and the front end everything was done in switched for the ui.
Jeff Terrell: So we're doing analytics using those data for the bars, to be able to see what's going on with the people that are coming to their bar see what types of bars they go out to how often people are out.
Jeff Terrell: Being able to use that data to do highly demise targeted advertising so retargeting the same people.
Jeff Terrell: so that I can kind of work both ways, you can get targeted by the bars that you like to go to rather than just seeing general ads for all different types of things and obviously very data focused.
Jeff Terrell: So I just I just got into mockups of the front end design for this network.
Jeff Terrell: So we'll be using live data we have pieces of hardware that we've taken care of to see the live data of exactly how many people are there, right now.
Jeff Terrell: i'm using that data you guys will be setting up in the back end doing a little bit more predictive.
Jeff Terrell: predictive numbers based off of historical data on Max capacity will be, it will be provided by all the bars.
Jeff Terrell: over here, we have some of the analytics data same type of concept you're taking a lot of the data that's already sourcing intuitive pulling it from the way that and creating the back end for all of this data.
Jeff Terrell: And then the advertising network which will connect through one APP and source into the other APP so the bars, will be able to put up an advertisement targeting people everything like that.
Jeff Terrell: skip over this part in, so this is just gonna really easy diagram is just showing how the two sides work together.
Jeff Terrell: And skipping all that so just to talk a little bit about the team in general, so we have a lot of pretty like extensive team that's building out more and more.
Jeff Terrell: We have some undergrads we have some recent grads we have people from all over kind of working on this right now, some graduate moved out to Robin they're still working with us.
Jeff Terrell: We have we're sponsored by tito's jemison absolute locally rumble mints a lot of brands right now we're partnering with student ambassadors for natty light right now.
Jeff Terrell: So we're doing like a lot, right now, and this is just kind of a really good opportunity to work on a project that is going to be used by a lot of your peers.
Jeff Terrell: And I know a lot of other students we've talked to you are kind of coming to us now they're like Oh, we want to be a part of this so really good opportunity I know.
Jeff Terrell: outside of the scope of this class, you know we're still going to be looking for more people to stick around, so I know people that do work with us.
Jeff Terrell: definitely want to keep you guys around if you guys are interested so it's just a really good opportunity for everybody here.
Jeff Terrell: On we're also partnering with the town of Chapel hill right now, I have a meeting, right after this and it will be kind of running a lot of events and stuff with them so just a great opportunity here and thank you guys, for your time i'm sorry i'm so shaky.
Jeff Terrell: All right next step, Simon.
Jeff Terrell: Your fingers here.
Jeff Terrell: All right, I gotta go after the bar APP see if I can keep you guys interested alright, so my name is matt Simone I work with North Carolina institute public health.
Jeff Terrell: And we are situated just up the street that gillings school of global public health, and I want to talk to you guys today about an APP that we have developed in beta still called collect smart.
Jeff Terrell: So, to make decisions data driven decisions, we need good data.
Jeff Terrell: To work on reducing the identifying the health disparities and inequities within our communities, we need data on all members of the Community.
Jeff Terrell: Right now, we have a lot of health data that summarize that the state or county level, but even then we don't have those data measures for all counties.
Jeff Terrell: to collect that good data requires sampling expertise, it can be costly, it can be expensive tiring.
Jeff Terrell: And so that's where collect smart comes in, want to jump ahead to a quick application.
Jeff Terrell: One use of this data is two or one use of this APP is to identify.
Jeff Terrell: areas within the Community, that might have lower rates than expected so on the screen here is a 10 mile emergency planning zone for sharing Harris nucular power plant in wake county.
Jeff Terrell: Everybody within 10 miles of the plant should have potassium iodide on hand testing it blocks the radioactive uptake of iodine think into the thyroid.
Jeff Terrell: it's basically table salts very easy cheap public health intervention.
Jeff Terrell: To the only way to figure out, who has potassium iodide on hand it's actually go out and talk to people.
Jeff Terrell: And you have to do that in a rigorous sampling framework you can't just talk to everybody on the street corner or at walmart and come up with an estimate, you need rigorous sampling methodology.
Jeff Terrell: that's not always easy to do that's what collect smart offers so one the output of this was that we found less than 10% of the population has access to it.
Jeff Terrell: So the results we increase the public health messaging to say hey this is pretty this is this is where you get it increased the locations where that's given away.
Jeff Terrell: Let me step back and talk about exactly what collect smart is so collect smart is a survey management system, so it is a.
Jeff Terrell: cost effective solution to collecting this high quality Community level data that we need.
Jeff Terrell: it's been tested in over 3500 different interviews throughout five different states so it's been proven to be to work there's a need for it.
Jeff Terrell: different applications or customers include nonprofit hospitals, who have to do a Community health assessment.
Jeff Terrell: health departments Community based organizations really anyone who wants to collect Community level information on their community or on their or collect Community level data on their community.
Jeff Terrell: So collect smart has two components, the Web application is.
Jeff Terrell: The survey management platform, it is, I believe, written in php i'm not a programmer that's why i'm here.
Jeff Terrell: It uses the US census bureau is API to come up with the most current set of population estimates and then allows a project manager to perform that random sample either cluster based or simple random, including by geographic unit so census tracts blocks blocks groups.
Jeff Terrell: The project dashboard itself allows the project manager to see where his surveyors or their surveyors are out in the field, what the status of those surveys, are they completed do they still need to be collected.
Jeff Terrell: How many surveys have been completed in each geographic unit for team and then also allows real time analysis so summarizes the results on the fly, so that the project manager can get a sense of how things are going, if adjustments need to be made.
Jeff Terrell: The other aspect of this is that you need the form, you need the data collection form that currently is created in EPI info which is.
Jeff Terrell: CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention Open Source statistical platform so it's the form designer that you can create an xml with push it to the APP to the website, the website pushes it to the APP.
Jeff Terrell: So the APP itself is built on the Open Source framework of that the Info.
Jeff Terrell: As you can see, it looks kind of like Google maps it uses the Google maps API and the project manager is able to push out these predetermine locations where he wants surveys to go to be conducted as well as those boundaries of stay within this boundary when you're conducting surveys.
Jeff Terrell: The APP also helps users get to that point so navigation and then, of course, collect those responses.
Jeff Terrell: of many different applications we've used mostly on health assessments.
Jeff Terrell: So summary it's serving management system it's a way that we can collect high quality information on communities that currently does not exist and.
Jeff Terrell: Yet it's effective cost effective solution for the survey.
Jeff Terrell: Alright next steps.
Jeff Terrell: i'm Jennifer stone i'm a speech language pathologist and i'm a doctoral student here at unc.
Jeff Terrell: And i'm here to tell you about something totally different from anything else, that you've seen in that we're going to focus here.
Jeff Terrell: on changing the world we're going to start where science shows us with an evidence based practice building the innovators of the future one word, at a time.
Jeff Terrell: So the problem that we're addressing here and i'm hoping that you'll all work with me on is the fact that we're facing two big skills gaps in our education system that.
Jeff Terrell: Our customer has billions of dollars and an abundance of brain drain and i'm guessing that a lot of you probably see that, based on the fact that you're in a stem field.
Jeff Terrell: So you're probably closest to it, and the fact that so many freshmen come into college without the skills they need to be able to to take stem type coursework and.
Jeff Terrell: then have to take remedial classes before that this club starts before that it starts at kindergarten and well before we know that at least 60% of students are entering kindergarten considered not ready to learn.
Jeff Terrell: And so what we know we've got abundant science from all different areas that show us that the way to change that is by starting at birth, the quantity and quality of words that children here in the first three years of life actually builds neurological structures.
Jeff Terrell: So how do we get quantity and quality of words in baby sprains.
Jeff Terrell: it's it goes down to reading books allowed so quantity is just pure numbers but quality is about the different kinds of words that kids here.
Jeff Terrell: and also the interactive state that they hear them in so we don't want those Apps that are going to invade families lives families don't want.
Jeff Terrell: Constant monitoring everything that they do, but this is going to help us focus in on the thing that matters most.
Jeff Terrell: And that is that interactive time when they're listening to story books also you should know that picture books contain up to 50% novel language so we're getting quality.
Jeff Terrell: through interaction and through diversity of language that children here.
Jeff Terrell: The other thing that's important for you guys to know is that there are people that have been addressing this for over 30 years, but this is the way they're addressing it.
Jeff Terrell: pediatricians threw out the world are giving people books and information and then holding the paper.
Jeff Terrell: they're way behind the time as far as technology goes, we need a better way to communicate because right now.
Jeff Terrell: More than fewer than 50% of families are reading aloud to their children regularly they're waiting until kids go to school.
Jeff Terrell: So the APP that I have in mind and that we've been working on developing new this there's a team we've been doing a lot of business back end.
Jeff Terrell: Building I have worked with a developer, a little bit, please excuse the visualization stuff i've got better wire frames are just not here yet.
Jeff Terrell: So what the Apps about is I think of it, and a lot of people, the people that i've piloted it with which has several families.
Jeff Terrell: Think of it as a fitbit for words post them recommendations on the side we give families, the number of words that their children are exposed to, then we also give them the big words those novel words that make up the quality component.
Jeff Terrell: Then we give them personalized book recommendations, based on the words that they're exposing their children to because the other thing science shows us.
Jeff Terrell: Is that to really have a word to really understand it, you need 16 exposures in a contextualize setting what better than picture books and what better way to count and know that as family members that you're giving your kids The thing that they need the most.
Jeff Terrell: So the developers i've worked with have given me this language i'm here because i'm not a programmer and so.
Jeff Terrell: If you have any questions you're welcome to email me and or text me and asked what they are, and the thing that's important to me is that I want you to know that i've got a database of over 100 children's books already transcribed.
Jeff Terrell: we're piloting this already there's a potential of it being research based.
Jeff Terrell: there's also when i've worked in the business settings that i'm working in people are pretty excited about it and talking about it, potentially, being the next dual lingo the next Facebook, because we plan to give it to every child born.
Jeff Terrell: And every family member at birth so i'm hoping that you'll join me in first of all, knowing this information, for your own families read to your babies, secondly.
Jeff Terrell: In creating this so that we can change the future.
Jeff Terrell: Next up gretzky.
Jeff Terrell: timers here.
Jeff Terrell: how's everybody doing.
Jeff Terrell: So, my name is Vitaly mean my co founder rocky we're co founders have easy access and basically easy access is a college access organization, we help loving come in first Generation Students access college and careers.
Jeff Terrell: um so what how we do that as we build college church and advising tools that help the students apply and they're all in college and in careers as well.
Jeff Terrell: And our bigger mission is to build digital equity tools that provide opportunities for underserved communities and these can be like even beyond education, but right now we're just starting college search.
Jeff Terrell: So, to get a little specific about what exactly how we do this, we have two products, one is a student APP.
Jeff Terrell: That helps them search for colleges, based on the information that the input about their selectivity affordability where they want to study.
Jeff Terrell: So it's a college search APP that helps them find and build a balanced college list, on the other hand.
Jeff Terrell: We have a counselor portal, which is a case management tool for high school counselors and that helps high school counselors manage their.
Jeff Terrell: caseload it helps them track their students know which students, they talked to the haven't talked to make sure that no students falls through the cracks.
Jeff Terrell: junior and senior year of high school um so mainly this summer I mean mainly this fall we're going to be working more on the console portal side of things, but that also includes like the student college search APP development team so.
Jeff Terrell: The team is mere rocky i'm a PhD student here at unc on the school of education, although we were both former college advisors so we've been working the space for a long time with students.
Jeff Terrell: And we kind of have a different perspective, about how to help students apply to college it's basically mostly focused on low income, students and tearing out affordability of affordability for them.
Jeff Terrell: um, so this is a project we've been working on for a long time so we've had other we started with like CS for social good we've had like for the last two years since i've been here on we've had.
Jeff Terrell: A.
Jeff Terrell: Each semester work on this so you're not going to be starting from scratch on this it's going to be starting from something that's really like you know.
Jeff Terrell: has a lot of code base on there, so that is a little challenge but it's also like you get to move it forward a little bit and we try to break things up into like small tasks that we can actually accomplish in a semester.
Jeff Terrell: So what's already there is counselors can already create an account they can create multiple cohorts for cancer, you can upload and download the data.
Jeff Terrell: there's a cool data display with different students.
Jeff Terrell: That you can filter and sort um it's integrated with stripe so you know counselors when they get to use it, they can actually pay for it um.
Jeff Terrell: And then, this summer we started connecting with the student out so when the students search for their colleges.
Jeff Terrell: They can kind of send a college list to their counselors in the college counselors can like add colleges to that list and send those suggestions back to the students.
Jeff Terrell: So that's kind of we started working at the summary on and we're probably going to most of the fall we're going to continue working on that this fall.
Jeff Terrell: So kind of the goals for what we would want to accomplish in this fall.
Jeff Terrell: Is is basically just continue that integration of allowing students to send information to the counselors unconscious to kind of interact with their students in addition to that.
Jeff Terrell: We want to allow multiple counselors to view and Edit like a cohort of students, right now, only one counter can have you know work with a cohort of students.
Jeff Terrell: The College search view, which is part of this going back and forth between the counselor and the student on and then improving data upload and download.
Jeff Terrell: um you guys can probably just look over this on your own, but this is kind of like how we build it so far on it's all in react.
Jeff Terrell: and
Jeff Terrell: firebase as the database for both student accounts their accounts.
Jeff Terrell: and
Jeff Terrell: yeah that's about it.
Jeff Terrell: Okay next up on.
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Jeff Terrell: hi my name is Peter helping i'm an associate professor in the school of ED which is just across the parking lot there.
Jeff Terrell: A lot of my research focuses on online peer learning, which is how students can kind of use the Internet to score working together, my teaching is mainly an intro stats at the Grad level for kind of applied researchers, so this project brings together those two topics.
Jeff Terrell: So the main issue here so i'm just going to take this off because in a hyperventilate I try and keep it going.
Jeff Terrell: But um so peer interactions are really, really important for learning, and this is true across the lifespan so let me give you a cute example.
Jeff Terrell: of a one year old and a three year old at home, my one year old is currently learning a lot of fine motor skills like instagram and manual dexterity from playing Lego with the three year old.
Jeff Terrell: One year old isn't learning fine motor skills from watching the type because typing isn't something a one year old.
Jeff Terrell: One year old to do the kinds of things that three year olds do can so interacting with the three year old is a good way for the one year old to learn.
Jeff Terrell: And that general idea is called the zone of proximal development so that's kind of the theory underline this peer interaction with your learning.
Jeff Terrell: perspective, you may have noticed say last year that remote learning really interrupts opportunities for peer interactions in the classroom and trump's a lot of our life but that's one of the things is probably hardest hit last year, I would say.
Jeff Terrell: And even when you are co located in the classroom it's non trivial to figure out how to design, you know, the equivalent of.
Jeff Terrell: Playing Lego together for graduate level statistics now there's a lot of work that has to go into thinking about how to implement that, and so the general kind of issue is well, how can we support online peer learning in intro Stat that's my thing, but more generally.
Jeff Terrell: And the basic clan.
Jeff Terrell: break it down into kind of two software solutions and i'm not a programmer, like many of the people here but.
Jeff Terrell: When i'm already using to develop web content for my stats classes is called are shiny are is a statistical software shiny basically will wrap that up in html and turn it into a web APP for you and i'm pretty comfortable using that I already developed content that way.
Jeff Terrell: This isn't maybe the greatest example, but you know this content is usually pretty interactive like pick a data set pick what you want to look at it, the data set you got lots of interesting graphs and things for students to do.
Jeff Terrell: I want them to be able to do that together, not just one, at a time, but work together, one of the solutions, I found it's called convergence.
Jeff Terrell: it's an open source javascript library that basically supports things like you know you can see your partner's mouse on the screen, you can see who's online, you can have a chat box of stuff.
Jeff Terrell: I don't really know too much about convergence previously, I used a firefox of.
Jeff Terrell: javascript library that was called together js step located it's not really supported anymore convergence is maybe a better shot but i'm not wedded to like how we collaborate five the online content, but I am building my content with our shiny so that's kind of a fixed piece for me.
Jeff Terrell: So what am I really looking for the overall idea of convergence, or something like convergence, something that can collaborate fi my existing web content to play nicely with our shiny.
Jeff Terrell: And from an instructor's perspective, what I want to do is basically takes up.
Jeff Terrell: lightweight javascript commands and clicking edit the html headers and the content, I already have that would be pretty ideal not sure if it's possible but there's an idea how it could work for me.
Jeff Terrell: As a student, I want to be able to go online do the things i'm already doing for this class but do them with one or more collaborators from the classroom so that I can benefit from this zone of proximal development stuff.
Jeff Terrell: And as a researcher, I want to be able to use some of the data from students working together to figure out how to build better online activities to help students learn.
Jeff Terrell: And I also want to know what students are doing when I asked them to work together, they doing with the theory says they should be doing they're doing something new and interesting and.
Jeff Terrell: Different it's a great learning opportunity for learning scientists that's really my pitch, and I have 40 seconds left so i'll take any questions.
Jeff Terrell: I didn't think so.
Jeff Terrell: Anyway, that's me working in our shiny that's me trying to figure out how to get students to collaborate on.
Jeff Terrell: Thanks very much everybody.
Jeff Terrell: next step with Daniel at all.
Jeff Terrell: To.
Jeff Terrell: Take this off, so you can hear me damn co founder and CEO of clinics brain health, and this is my partner groom.
Jeff Terrell: And so what does klinsmann he'll do so, we are a company that is focused on diversifying clinical trials.
Jeff Terrell: What that actually means is that there are three particular groups that are left out a clinical trials that we want to get more involved that's people of color.
Jeff Terrell: Women and people in rural areas, so our goal is to help people of color women and people in rural areas access clinical trials.
Jeff Terrell: The reason that is is because it creates more efficient medicines when they're when when those groups are involved in the research that means that the medicine that has been.
Jeff Terrell: rolled out on the market is more efficient for that group of people and they won't see any governance side effects and take him proper dosage amounts, as a result.
Jeff Terrell: we're currently actually working on a our third covert study, so we have a heavy focus, as you can imagine, on covert research right now we've helped with the Madonna vaccine study and the novavax vaccine study.
Jeff Terrell: we're currently helping with a third coven study that's actually not for a vaccine before protein based alternative for people who might be at high risk for Kobe so that brings me to what you all, will have an impact on.
Jeff Terrell: You will be a healthcare hero, and you will help us create more efficient vaccines.
Jeff Terrell: The work that you will do on this software will actually we will really roll it out as soon as it might be done and start getting our users converted over to this software versus the software that we use now um so you actually like I said, be able to help us.
Jeff Terrell: Create access to the vaccine studies and other studies for people of color women and people in rural areas, so i'll see that it's hugely impactful and something that you really can start to see the impact on right now versus later down the road.
Jeff Terrell: Again, as I say, you will save lives, if you think about your grandmother your mother other people in your life, who may be at high risk for coven.
Jeff Terrell: who may have had issues with coding themselves, you might have had issues with Kobe on the work that you'll be doing on this software project will help us help you and your family and the people in your life.
Jeff Terrell: On, so this is just a quick show the wireframe that my partner, Graham here built so eloquently.
Jeff Terrell: So you can take a look, this is the homepage, and this is the study page and we can talk more about what that actually consist of later, I just wanted to really give you insights to let you know that we kind of have a vision for what we want.
Jeff Terrell: But we also are looking to collaborate, so we would want insights from you asked perspective of the team working on this, of what you think.
Jeff Terrell: would be you know good features that we should have built into this and you know different changes that we're making the user interface, we want to hear your feedback on that and are open to that.
Jeff Terrell: This is just another show the wireframe Rao studies page and the studies for you um you really can think of is like a marketplace two sided marketplace so.
Jeff Terrell: There will be consumers more potential study volunteers on one side, who will be searching through our studies.
Jeff Terrell: and trying to refer themselves and learn more about the studies on the other side, it would be the former companies who are putting their studies on our site.
Jeff Terrell: They want to go and be able to look through all of their studies that they have up and see who has been referred and be able to reach out to them.
Jeff Terrell: um so the current software that we have, I would say is limiting really on the back end so that will probably be the.
Jeff Terrell: biggest focus for us on the project is that we want to build out some of the backend communication features.
Jeff Terrell: to optimize our user experience so right now we have to pair our current software with things like hubspot and other communication tools, because we can't do the communication within.
Jeff Terrell: The software solution that we already currently have, so we want this to be a fully integrated piece of software where it's not just part of what we need, but holistically what we need, we can also do the communication automated communication through this software as well.
Jeff Terrell: So I thought that you might recognize this we want you to help us build a software solution and create a more efficient Kobe vaccine and more efficient medicines in general, so that we can save lives and I have 50 seconds left, if anyone happens to have a question.
Jeff Terrell: i'm gonna say something i'm just I did a user experience like design thinking process of summer and got a lot of feedback and so.
Jeff Terrell: You know you're walking in with a complete wireframe of what needs to be built out the main thing is coming in helping us with the back end features.
Jeff Terrell: But you have the design elements kind of already done with users that have told us what they want so we're excited about getting that done and just need your expertise and making it happen.
Jeff Terrell: yeah and one last thing we have lily users in like London in the UK, I mean Kenya Africa um so we have users all over the world, so again you'll be able to you know kind of be created a software solution that people will use internationally.
Jeff Terrell: And now we're going to switch to video.
Jeff Terrell: We have a few people who can't join us in person, and so we have videos recorded of them for those of you who are remotes if this does not come across well then just know that the videos are linked on the web page and we'll just do videos from here on out.
Jeff Terrell: hi my name is Brian Hughes and i'm the senior RD, and here I can work today i'd like to pitch our project on explainable a token or.
Jeff Terrell: First, I want to a little bit of okay we're we're an open source software R amp D company and we work on various different domains, including.
Jeff Terrell: Medical computing scientific computing visualization data analytics as well as computer vision which is the group that i'm a part of we have offices, both in Chapel hill North Carolina as well as Virginia and other locations.
Jeff Terrell: And, most of our work is government contracts will be also have side of our company which works on commercial contracts as well if you're interested in learning more about kickboard encourage you to visit our website to learn.
Jeff Terrell: So the project that we're pinching is related to explainable Ai or ex CIA and I want to spend a little bit of time just introduced this idea to.
Jeff Terrell: Nowadays, we have access to large amounts of data and we can use this data to essentially training.
Jeff Terrell: machine learning algorithms so one use case might be for image classification, so in this case, you may.
Jeff Terrell: have an image of a cat you have your trained model which is developing your network and it makes a prediction that this is a cat with probability of 93%.
Jeff Terrell: But the issue is that now, when the end user comes to use this model he doesn't really understand why the model predicts this account.
Jeff Terrell: For example, he may ask why did you predict that this is okay, and why did you know that it was something else, and because of this, the user may not know when or what not to trust the model and wonder why the model might or might not feel.
Jeff Terrell: So the field of explainable Ai or SCI fi 60 developed tools and resources to help interpret and understand these put them both black box machine learning models.
Jeff Terrell: So in this case in this new paradigm now given the same image of a cat and a more explainable model or a model that has the ability to explain this prediction.
Jeff Terrell: Only do you get the prediction of the model that this is a cat but you also.
Jeff Terrell: Get explanation of why he thinks it's a cat so, for example, it has for whiskers and claws and it might have this feature of pointy ears near the top of the animal.
Jeff Terrell: So this explanation, along with the prediction is given to the user and hopefully this facilitates the users understanding of the model and a better.
Jeff Terrell: means to know when and when not to trust the model, and so, if you're interested to learn more about the DARPA program which supported this explainable Ai research or encourage you to visit this website.
Jeff Terrell: So, towards the end we're developing an open source explainable Ai tool kit or SCI tk.
Jeff Terrell: We have a website, which I encourage you to visit it's located at X API tk.org here's the landing page of the website introduces the two interests of the program which were related to analytics and autonomy.
Jeff Terrell: And then inside the this website you'll find various fca tours and contributions from different teams.
Jeff Terrell: And we have a template here are each team summits and it includes relevant information about their contribution, including the intended use case.
Jeff Terrell: limitations of their approach and then there's also links to essentially all of the resources, whether their software papers Center so again if you're interested to learn more encourage you to visit our website.
Jeff Terrell: Alongside the website we've also created this.
Jeff Terrell: package it's Python package which computes saliency maps here CC maps are former visual explanation which can show what an algorithm pays attention to.
Jeff Terrell: During its prediction process, so if you're like a case of a dog, you might see the dog is highlighted in red and when it predicts the cat you can see the kind of highlighted.
Jeff Terrell: So here we support various image understand has you have a swamp of all interface, which allows for.
Jeff Terrell: Easy configuration extension of algorithms and then we've also included several Jupiter notebooks to showcase if you are these.
Jeff Terrell: Inside the package, and so, if you're interested in learning more we encourage you to visit our github repository as well as the different examples that are there.
Jeff Terrell: So here, the goal of our project is to essentially extend this Python package and develop a containerized service that provides a restful API.
Jeff Terrell: For image based in DC algorithm consideration and invocation using the package next at casing package.
Jeff Terrell: There are a couple of clips requirements so first services in House a separate repository and be relatively, why should.
Jeff Terrell: We were like you to use established mature dependencies for the components of the system, including fast or faster API or the server component and then we're also want to create a containerized environment using tools such as doctor appointment.
Jeff Terrell: So we're happy to discuss morning if people are interested in pursuing this project so yeah again to summarize to learn more you can find more information about this Toolkit to cater if you would like to contact us, you can reach us at.
Jeff Terrell: A tip were calm all right, thank you.
Jeff Terrell: hey.
Jeff Terrell: Everyone how's it going.
Jeff Terrell: To do and unc.
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Jeff Terrell: returned by faculty at Duke and unc is one of the most promising startups in the Elder care industry today.
Jeff Terrell: And i'm here to tell you about an amazing innovation project that we'd love to work with you on.
Jeff Terrell: A get started let's get a show of hands, how many of you here have a elderly person in your life such as a grandparent that you really care about.
Jeff Terrell: Well, our mission and carry out is to develop constant innovations to improve the quality of life for the elderly, our communities, I personally think elder care technology is a major opportunity for innovation and to make a social impact and develop the start of a future.
Jeff Terrell: America is aging very random there's over 70 million baby boomers that are reaching old age and they're going to need a lot of help with care.
Jeff Terrell: Some people even say that the tesla or airbnb of the future is being developed in the Elder care industry today Eric area and speaking of how many of you have ever dreamed of being one of the first 10 people airbnb or tesla being there from the early days and making innovations.
Jeff Terrell: Well, this is your opportunity come join us on this project to develop an innovative personalized reminiscence therapy APP.
Jeff Terrell: And you can have a direct impact on building the future, and if you do a great job you can have the opportunity to join our survey afterwards.
Jeff Terrell: Now i'll turn it over to my colleague autumn cons to tell you more about the Jesus i'm not a CEO of karissa.
Jeff Terrell: I also worked in clinical practice I do for ology where I see interesting elderly patients with memory loss and neurodegenerative disorders.
Jeff Terrell: In that role, I can push drive them drugs, but the one thing I can't prescribe he's better at home.
Jeff Terrell: I can we die, we have an interdisciplinary team right and passionate people with backgrounds with venture capital neuro science computer science and psychology.
Jeff Terrell: or work in both neuroscience and mental health justice highly therapeutic and the elderly to engage in our innocence about their past life and experiences.
Jeff Terrell: Many of them really want to share these experiences pass on the wisdom that comes with age and connect with others on a social and emotional level.
Jeff Terrell: We can structure reminiscence therapy for an APP to create a valuable method of engaging senior citizens helping reduce feelings of isolation and depression and life satisfaction URL.
Jeff Terrell: That actually create can be utilized by curiosity rivers know the seniors homes and take care of them during the day, we have some great caregivers including some of your fellow unc students that are in nursing or pre MED.
Jeff Terrell: And they're going into senior citizens homes all across the triangle of we didn't hear them during the day as caregivers and engage the elderly person with the remnants zap enjoy enjoy thinking about their life and develop a personal connection over time, as they learn their life stories.
Jeff Terrell: We design it well and store the data from the reminiscences others my family can enjoy learning things about their parents or grandparents that they didn't even know.
Jeff Terrell: The memories can be preserved for the future in a journal electronically, that the family can keep them look back.
Jeff Terrell: A real new chocolate depending on your skills and how we develop this creating a digital story the person's like they can live on TV and after one day the elderly person passes away.
Jeff Terrell: So, family and have something to remember the by now i'll turn it over to gallery for quality they'll just guess the features of the APP but i'm not really I should see to Korea.
Jeff Terrell: Just a year ago I was in your seat and worked on the initial APP project, you know it went really well I love the team and I love the work.
Jeff Terrell: And they asked me to join, to help build the startup after graduation, we spent a lot of time building our matching Sir.
Jeff Terrell: And the innovations, we made again massive momentum in the past few months we now serve clients all over the triangle.
Jeff Terrell: And within the past few weeks, actually we serve a Duke Professor who love the care and love to start with so much that he joined our advisory board.
Jeff Terrell: Now i'm excited to spend some time on major tech innovations, they can actually improve the quality of the care experience itself.
Jeff Terrell: that's where reminisces there becomes the play to be a big innovation, so what features would be like to design.
Jeff Terrell: For starters, who would be mobile APP so our caregivers can you sell their phones initially, we can use photos from the time of year, where the elderly person was young.
Jeff Terrell: to serve as a starting point for them to tell stories about their life like what concerts did you go to in a 60s.
Jeff Terrell: we'd encourage the caregiver through the APP task created open ended questions we've created to bring out the best reminiscences things like, who was the most influential person in your life.
Jeff Terrell: If there's time we transcribed speech to text through the phone right, so the conversation to be Journal and stored for later.
Jeff Terrell: We can even make it social asking family members to submit props for the caregiver dad's like today, can you please ask her what his favorite movies, are there's so much we can do with this personalized reminisces there yeah and i'm excited to see what we built and.
Jeff Terrell: Everyone thanks for taking the time today to review my product concept concept that I want to share with you today is mobile application called Holland.
Jeff Terrell: So Holland is a mobile APP used by therapists and patients so physical occupational feeling speech therapy and patients to be used, both in a clinical at home, setting.
Jeff Terrell: concept is that therapist will update and individualized exercises activities for patients patients and execute at home.
Jeff Terrell: And input their data to this APP that they have and share with a therapist to speed up progress little background on me.
Jeff Terrell: So I it's my Barber and an MBA i'm a sales and marketing finance background experience working with entrepreneurs and investors.
Jeff Terrell: My husband and proud father was a special little boy introduced me to this is my son when he was little over a year and a half, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy so use the motivation behind this application and.
Jeff Terrell: Certainly it's gonna be a lot of first hand experience on why this would be valuable.
Jeff Terrell: So just to give you an idea market sizes that 61 million adults and 3 million children in the US are currently living with disabilities.
Jeff Terrell: Patient costs are around 75 to $150 per visit there are visits are covered by insurance, but once those visits are typically exhausted patients in and out of pocket.
Jeff Terrell: So federal funding state funding is available to assist sometimes those channels can be hard to navigate so it will with this product is to help reduce the number of clinical appointments that are needed in a clinical setting by making progress in sending.
Jeff Terrell: This is attractive to both insurance companies and patients insurance companies generally will limit the number of therapy appointments that a patient has.
Jeff Terrell: For non chronic patients there's benefit reducing to try to reduce the number of.
Jeff Terrell: Appointments they have there's a cost savings that comes along with that, for the ensures patients, this is an opportunity to avoid going to the clinical setting.
Jeff Terrell: making great progress in the home, setting and even, I would say, given the current situation with Kobe for those patients with chronic conditions, the ability to reduce the number of critical points that they have is all the better.
Jeff Terrell: So again, what is Holland all into the mobile APP my vision for this is it's going to be apple and android compatible.
Jeff Terrell: Easy use for the therapist easy input data for patients.
Jeff Terrell: Ultimately, improving patient outcomes, by improving activities and exercises they're able to do and hope setting update with their best on that progress, and they can have a streamline communication.
Jeff Terrell: And then down the road, ultimately, you know citizens potentially being a resource as well, but for accessing programs that are available through state and federal funding.
Jeff Terrell: So what I need help, I need help with developing wire frames and producing an mvp as you saw I do not have a technical background, I have a general business background.
Jeff Terrell: So i'm relying on your expertise to help me pull this product together that I can then take out for cover customer discovery with insurance companies and therapists and also down the road.
Jeff Terrell: us to showcase to investors.
Jeff Terrell: Revenue model, right now, I see this being sold to insurance companies and healthcare clinics and, ultimately, this would be a service that patients receive with no cost.
Jeff Terrell: And the provider that they're seeing would be the one fronting the cost and they would simply be able to use use the patient, that is so.
Jeff Terrell: that's my products concept in a nutshell, thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you my contact information is on the slide Thank you.
Jeff Terrell: Well hello, Peter science.
absolutely delighted to be yours today.
Jeff Terrell: on creating an APP that makes making phone calls on traditional cell phones straightforward for people who otherwise have difficulty navigating a smartphone.
Jeff Terrell: There are many types of rates.
Jeff Terrell: here's an image on Google maps which we all know and love and it has amazing power.
Jeff Terrell: But another kind of breed software is software that's simple and elegant and easy to use and maybe does just one thing extremely well and that's The goal of this project.
Jeff Terrell: To create a simple embracing phone APP for those who needed we all probably know people or have people in our family, with whom we want to communicate.
Jeff Terrell: And for whom the one we want to make it possible for them to make calls and to communicate with who have trouble with a traditional cell phone.
Jeff Terrell: In my own case my mom needs New York Times or graciously she asked me questions about the mmr vaccines and she's a big fan but she's 18 years old, and she experiences some Emily challenges and she cannot easily use traditional cell phone or cell phone.
Jeff Terrell: And, most of us are in this situation, we know something we want to be able to communicate the most trouble using a cell phone.
Jeff Terrell: and addressing this need is the goal embrace come back or.
Jeff Terrell: If you want to convince yourself there's an enormous need for this kind of cell phones and cell phones.
Jeff Terrell: Go to Amazon in the search bar enter easy to use cell phone you'll find a bunch of entries and here are too easy phone crime unlock senior flip phone big buttons compatible easy to use and on the right, the Ram memory phone for dementia or alzheimers seniors.
Jeff Terrell: If you look at the entries carefully, you find that they share one important feature, and that is their ratings are not very good he many the reviews are skating one star the phone is a piece of nonsense two stars battery life is terrible one this far worse ever.
Jeff Terrell: These don't need current these.
Jeff Terrell: What we want to create is a simple embracing phone to be used by our loved ones with dignity, it would have essentially two screens.
Jeff Terrell: person the phone the phone is lifted out it wakes on raise it comes automatically on it would display and it's simplified venue of the key contacts and family members likely with their images.
Jeff Terrell: The person would just push these buttons no swiping no alternative screens and the phone would have a clear battery indicator.
Jeff Terrell: On pressing the right button, the person will be able to talk with or decision or other important person in this case there's Kevin and right and maybe access to transportation shuttle.
Jeff Terrell: Second screen will be the screen that will come up when there is an incoming call again simple controls clear by the collar.
Jeff Terrell: just push no swiping in this case we get a picture and a label that says what Williams, is calling so of course we would push the answer one.
Jeff Terrell: In addition, we know that people who have trouble with electronics often have trouble keeping the charge so a key part of the software will be outstanding power management.
Jeff Terrell: want the phone to be able to last at least a week between jarvis and when the battery went down, maybe the phone and send emails to a third party toward them.
Jeff Terrell: I think this would be a high impact piece of software, but if you really want to have an impact, often that means making a product.
Jeff Terrell: And I am also committed if we can create a good prototype to try to find the right way to get this software and this idea out to people who need it, and whether that means.
Jeff Terrell: Creating a phone it has this APP automatically loaded or putting the APP together from the Google play store i'm open to sit i'm open to how we do that, I want to emphasize that I do have significant experience in creating companies.
Jeff Terrell: i'm a professor in the US Department i'm the founder of a company called rotor metrics.
Jeff Terrell: which has about 50 employees currently and i'm an advisor to multiple other startup and early phase and link based companies, I know how to start companies, I know how to raise money to get those companies going.
Jeff Terrell: The point is that I don't directly know how to do software, I need your help, we need to be a team, but if we couldn't create a prototype.
Jeff Terrell: That meaningfully addresses the question of allowing everyone to successfully make calls and communicate with a cell phone and also committed to help in finding helping the team find the right mechanism to making that product available commercialized.
Jeff Terrell: So thank you for listening to this pitch, I hope, several of you.
Jeff Terrell: Consider race phone.org as your project it's a great project for an exceptionally high and motivated students would really like to have make an impact.
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Jeff Terrell: hello, and thank you for the opportunity to pitch our ideas your class, my name is Alexis Kelly and i'm the senior director of research at the usc film school of global public health, today I want to talk to you about an idea for software that can help them straight in research, the world's.
Jeff Terrell: First, I would like to tell you a little bit about your.
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Jeff Terrell: indicate that you were here, and then, if if you want to stick around this as a three minute video little over three minutes so it'll go a little bit over into class time.
Jeff Terrell: But if you need to run that's fine, which is the top School of Public health and public institution in the country.
Jeff Terrell: We have over 200 faculty members for joining research all over the State, a country in the world.
Jeff Terrell: They are located eight departments that includes epidemiology and biostatistics nutrition environmental sciences and engineering health behavior health policy and management and maternal and child health.
Jeff Terrell: Public health as a field has a direct impact on the health of all of us, the work we do healings ranges from vaccine development and hesitancy to environmental justice we address every scope of public health and our motto is we're on it.
Jeff Terrell: As a result, we have a lot of experts to produce a lot of these in science, or researchers produced over 1600 publications in 2020 we are unable, however, to rapidly identify killings expert researchers and their science, we need a tool to showcase our science our experts and our students.
Jeff Terrell: we're currently trying to find research publications are curated abstracts and sanitation database called scopus However, this database is limited to search searching at a certain point in time and doing small batch searches.
Jeff Terrell: Well we're hoping to work with you on the development of a tool that would allow us to easily search our research publications.
Jeff Terrell: We envision that this tool would be located on our school's website, which is currently created through wordpress.
Jeff Terrell: We would love to have some sort of dashboard that would allow us and others where our research publications for more information about our researchers and the science, that they do.
Jeff Terrell: We think that the audience for this tool would be quite broad including current and prospective students university leaders other scientists donors and even state legislators.
Jeff Terrell: As I mentioned earlier you're starting to do some initial testing of the scope is database, we think, an API or other programming toolkit might be useful, we are very much open to whatever ideas you might have we want to welcome you to.
Jeff Terrell: We envision that this tool would help us better tell the story of why gillings research is so important.
Jeff Terrell: will help improve our Community and policy impact it has the potential to help students connect with faculty research and finally we think this tool would be of interest to other schools and units around campus so that they could incorporate this into their research areas as well.
Jeff Terrell: So why should you pick our project public health is at the top of everyone's minds, right now, as a year and.
Jeff Terrell: They want us to be a part of the solution and we want to benefit each.
Jeff Terrell: Day, additionally, we are excited to learn from you we're flexible and fun and collaborative team, you can see these photos here, because then you are interested in working with us and, again, thank you so much for the opportunity to to.
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Jeff Terrell: there's definitely a lot of.
Jeff Terrell: That being said, I don't think there's any projects.
Jeff Terrell: The task on exactly.
Jeff Terrell: yeah well the way it'll work you'll see your.
Jeff Terrell: progress.
Jeff Terrell: or whatever, and so far the other two times we've gotten nowhere near enough reference.
Jeff Terrell: So.
Jeff Terrell: that's awesome.