McPeak Designs
Hunter McPeak
McPeak Designs
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GBC Web
Katherine Bartos
A place for members of the Greene Baptist Church to share prayer requests and stay connected throughout the week. The website is targeted specifically to the church and is a place for that community to interact. To make it a private and safe place to share members register for an account to access the site. For deployment the site is advertised on the church's Facebook pages and being announced on Sundays at the services.
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Virtual Fitting Room
Joshua Couturier
This capstone research project started in September 2014. The goal was to create an experience using an Xbox One Kinect that could record measurements in inches across the human body. The point of this experience is to demonstrate that input devices such as the Xbox One can compete with hand taken measurements by tailors in-store, and can assist Kinect owners shopping from online at home. Current studies over the past two years are saying that retail is changing from in store to online purchases more and more frequently. They also state that the future of online retail, like augmented fitting room experiences, and visual try on capabilities are what companies should be aiming for now. The most successful businesses will have incorporated these strategies over the next five years, to sell more product and to assist consumer experience in buying more effectively. Come check out the advancements being made in the new age of retail!
Virtually Fearless
Jacy Quint, Kelsey Philbrick, Kyle Fowlie
The Virtually Fearless research project aims to explore the benefits that may arise when using virtual reality systems in conjunction with - or in place of - exposure therapy (a technique in behavior therapy intended to treat anxiety disorders). It is not a project dedicated to simulating or re-inventing the exposure therapy process, but is purposed to determine if virtual experiences could potentially be used in place of their physical counterparts. For example, if a person is terribly afraid of spiders, traditional exposure therapy may have them gradually work towards a different mind-set by physically exposing them to their fear. The Virtually Fearless project aims to determine if a virtual spider within a virtual world could be used instead.
The participants of this study have the possibility of being exposed to spiders, heights, or enclosed spaces. Their stress levels will be monitored during the entire process with a heart rate monitor attached to their finger. A relaxing environment will serve as a control and gauge participants resting hear-rate. This value will be compared to the other situations. If virtual reality is cabable of aiding the exposure therapy process, their must be a noticable different between the heart monitor data sets. This is how the researchers will determine if virtual reality is capable of creating a stress-inducing environment and possibly aiding the exposure therapy process.
Truth Photo Booth
Joan Oparowski, Pip Kolmar
Big data is a term used for the collection of mass amounts of information about the general public that can be analyzed and potentially used by researchers and organizations to observe trends that could mitigate health risks and raise the efficiency of business models. Although the premise behind big data intends to work toward a human-optimized world, this kind of detailed, structured information about everyone in the world could be easily abused in ways many do not realize. We often consent to the collection and use of our information when using online retailers and social networks and are unaware of who uses that information and for what purpose. In an age of increasingly accessible information, it is important to take control of our own privacy and demand to know how it is used. This capstone creates an isolated scenario intended to raise peopleÃs awareness of privacy issues and strives to understand people's current beliefs and understanding of their privacy rights.
The Photo Truth Booth capstone can be found on display Monday 3/23 through Wednesday 3/25 from 8 am to 4 pm on the first floor of the Memorial Union across from the UCU.
Livin' Easy'
Julianna Vezza, Evan Dechesne
In Orono, Maine, finding an apartment or house to rent is often a challenge for students. Livin’ Easy is a website that helps students locate an apartment or house easily and affordably. Livin’ Easy has pictures of available houses and apartments for rent, geolocation maps and personal reviews. It will allow the user to find or lease an apartment, see reviews on properties and contact landlords within minutes. Livin’ Easy will be a convenient way for students to search for off-campus housing. They will appreciate how much time and effort they will save by using this site and it will make finding a place to live more enjoyable.
Twining Tales
Tyler Beauman
According to Tyler Beauman, “ the digital age is all about customization†and “stories should be just as customizable as anything else.â€
In Beauman’s New Media capstone, users can explore three “experiments†in digital narrative to create their own stories or redesign others to their liking. One experiment teaches children how to structure sentences to create their stories. Another uses the classic fairy tale, “Little Red Riding Hood†in a “Choose-Your-Own-Adventureâ€-like reimagining. The final experiment allows users to create their own coloring book pages based on scenes they create using a list of characters and events.
Epitaph
Leslie Hood
When someone dies, their digitized selves live on. The internet and computers have been around for a long enough time that, inevitably, users are starting to die. When they die, so much about them is stored online, and on hard drives, and in this instance, on floppies. Epitaph is an interactive fiction told in epistolary form – with a twist.
The writings are artifacts stored on floppy disks as a long-secret diary left behind by a girl lost to suicide. The mystery of the reasons for her death, her sister’s grief and redemption, twenty five years later, are tied to these small squares, that may hold the key to healing, and to not repeat the mistakes of the past. Leslie Hood weaves technologies, past and present, with research from an infant field to bring forth a literary experience unlike any other.
Disc Golf
Arthur Olsen
This website is dedicated to the avid Disc Golf players across the country in an attempt to expand the social aspect of the sport. As both a course archive and open ended trading system, this site was designed to broaden the disc golf community by allowing players to connect with each other and explore the courses in thier state while not breaking the bank.
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MMD 206 & 430
These are projects from NMD 206 & IMD 430
Commentrain
Thomas Fouchereaux
Video creation and consumption is quickly becoming the most popular way to communicate one's own ideas and experiences; As our society moves into this new era of content creation and utilization, it's important to take into account not only the ways we consume content, but the ways we communicate it as well. Existing systems of adding contributions to videos are jarringly abrupt, opting to letting users add comments that are only seen below the video. Restricting users contributions to fit this mold, destroys opportunity for creativity in what should be a completely collaborative process. This project seeks to rectify this disconnect by using a non-textual interface that delivers viewers contributions to appear alongside the original video to better balance both group’s saying power.
Caitlin's Catch
Caitlin Trafton
According to NOAA, up to 90% of all seafood consumed in the United States of America is imported from foreign countries. 35% of that seafood was caught in the USA, exported to foreign countries for processing, and re-imported to sell in the USA.
Caitlins Catch is designed to Upstage the [middle] Man and provide the most-direct source of seafood to Consumers. Disrupt bleak Chains of Custody; which drive the price and quality of product down, in order to prevent over-fishing and misunderstandings related to Seafood Freshness. Licensed Seafood Harvesters of Maine have the right to sell their species directly to Seafood Consumers within the state bounds.Fish Drops resolve the issue of Timing Risk, where agreed upon locations facilitate direct Harvester-Consumer sales. Caitlins Catch is the space where transparency of sale is visible to anyone with the link (CaitlinsCatch.com).
Upon purchasing a Shellfish Dealer License, Caitlin Trafton can buy and sell seafood from other Harvesters to build variety for Small-scale Restaurants and Families throughout Maine. Fish Shares would then be labeled CaitlinsCatch and dropped at Fish Drop locations.
Say One Thing
Andrew Heretakis
Say One Thing (SOT) is a social experiment application. At its core SOT is a posting comment system with the added benefit (or detriment) of being completely anonymous. More anonymity than usernames and passwords. SOT has gone all the way to literal nothingness when it comes to the idea of a digital person.
Say One Thing strives to bring people further away while at the same time bringing their ideas together. The only way this can be achieved is through completely taking away outside and inside digital influence. Posters will post and commenters will comment on posts. Any chance of getting closer to anyone is nullified and made impossible.
The importance of this complete anonymity is huge. Any kind of influence such as a post history to read through or a username can have a significant effect on a person before they make a post. SOT is trying to achieve a place where users can solely post exactly what they would post without influence. And to see how people react in an unchained environment.
UAV AcadeMe
Jesse Hinmann
UAV Academy is a website which highlights different projects and applications that use unmanned aerial vehicles. It specifically focuses on High Schools across the nation that have implemented drones into their classes and curriculum. Along with the creation of the website, we’ve partnered with a local Maine High School, Wiscassett High School, to provide and implement a high quality UAV into the lesson plans for the students. This technology can supplement several different fields of study, such as physics, computer programming, tech education, photography, athletics, and more. Wiscasset will be the first High School in Maine to incorporate a drone into their curriculum, paving the way for other schools to follow suit in the future. We plan to advocate for more local schools to adopt this technology in preparation for the boom of commercial use of UAVs in the near future.
Responsive Furniture
Ryan Wahle
Conventional furniture often fails to incorporate portability, versatility and interactivity into a single design. This project designs a piece of furniture that is defined by these three qualities through the use of 3D printers, small motors, sensors and design concepts presented by origami and robotics. These tools were used to build a piece of furniture that lays flat on the floor as a two dimensional hexagon, and through responsive behavior can be transformed into a chair or table with the press of a button. This design provides a portable, versatile and interactive solution for the constraints of common furniture and is significant because it can be applied to settings ranging from a studio apartment where space is limited to remote locations where compactness and portability are top priorities.
Library
Library
Visit our library, which houses a fine collection of Art books.
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MDI Web
Bethany Warnock
This desire to reflect on the past is the sole purpose of the establishments we call historical societies. These organizations make it their duty to collect the written and oral histories of a region, and make it openly available to the public. The Mount Desert Island Historical Society has performed this duty since 1931, and it is time that they take a look to the future, and embrace modern technology.
This capstone is about bringing a modern look and functionality to the technology that the historical society already has. Their website has been migrated to Wordpress, and given a custom theme. The goal of their new website is to improve ease of use by inquirers, begin a more efficient exchange of information with other societies, and expand on their accumulated knowledge.
Crowdcast: eBroadcasting Live
Brandon Poli
CrowdCast is an online community for those who want to get started in e-sports broadcasting, or “shoutcasting” by providing them a space to post content and get feedback, as well as some “raw material” to broadcast over. They will learn and grow through their experiences providing content for the subreddit while also getting tips and tricks from those who have more experience in broadcasting (like myself).
This capstone project is currently live at reddit.com/r/Crowd_Cast and my capstone blog can be found at policapstone.wordpress.com.
Mainestream
Kristen Douglas, Abbey Gutowski
MaineStream LLC Productions, is a student organized film company, dedicated to promoting the various types of student excellence, clubs, events, and student life experiences that occur at the University of Maine. Our business specializes in video, photography and advertising. We have a full crew that consists of production managers, cinematographers, editors, designers, and audio engineers. We work with our clients all the way through the video planning process, to sketching out beginning ideas, drawing out storyboards and creating an invoice that fits the clients vision and needs.
Mainestream LLC is up for hire, and while one of our main goals is to better the University of Maine marketing and community, we are continually working with outside clients as well and can be reached at mainestream04469@gmail.com.
Nomophobia
Kelly Rowan, Abigail Bailey
Nomophobia actively demonstrates the recent surge in mobile phone attachment through biofeedback devices. When the body is under stress, it reacts through a spike in one's heart rate and perspiration level increase. Using a heart rate monitor and a Galvanic Skin Response sensor, users will be exposed to a situation where cell phone attachment will be evaluated. Through live interpretation of the data, attachment can be determined by physical changes in one's body as the result of being under stress.
Alphabet Reveal
Elise Galgagno
Technology is changing the way children learn. We live in a world where children can easily engage in technology before they can create full sentences. This capstone explores the idea of using technology to educate, without requiring the child physically touch any of the technology. This is explored through a game for children aged three to four, that helps teach the alphabet. This game consists of a plush dog (that's equipped with a webcam), a computer screen, and "magic" alphabet wands for the children to wave. As children show the toy dog their wand, an image will pop up on the screen. The image contains hidden objects that start with the letter on the wand. As the child waves their wand around, they will see that they are now controlling that letter on the screen. They can then find the hidden objects by waving their wand over it. Through this game children can practice letter recognition, begin linking letters with words, and practice their fine motor skills.
Ramp
Ramp
Maybe Logan will be here during the celebration? Logan...?
Fab Lab
Fab Lab
Come back sometime to see our Fab Lab in action!
Conference
Conference
This is our Conference Room
Animal Collision
Sara Webber
The animal-crossing warning signs that are currently posted along major roadways are incapable of alerting drivers with real-time tracking data of animal activity, rendering them static and minimally effective. Animal Collision Prevention will attempt to reduce the number of fatal accidents that drivers and large wildlife undergo every year in Maine. There needs to a proactive system that will prevent these situations before they happen. Using infrared technology to detect animals near the roadway, drivers can be warned of the potential danger ahead and protect themselves from injury and financial crisis.
FDD: Fall Detection Device
Heather Anderson, Ben Herold-Porter
Fall Detection Device or F.D.D. is exactly as the title claims. This is a wearable device that will detect a fall and automatically contact a preset phone number. This device was originally created in mind to replace systems such as LifeAlert. LifeAlert requires a button to be pressed, this device will do the work for you, especially if you fall and are unresponsive. Our device will be deployed at Maine free skate.
Fitzpatrick
Andrew Fitzpatrick
Interactive user generated video.
GeoTrails
Zach Marvin
This app is designed to help you find trails across Maine.
NMD website
NMD 206 class
Prototype of New Media Department website. Please add your comments!
Tiny Tactics
Scott Forand
Tiny Tactics is a mobile game about beings and their influence on the environment around them. Mobile games as a whole are quick and, for the most part, only superficially interactive. Through the use of the turn-based strategy format, Tiny Tactics tests not only creative problem solving but probes the limits of the mobile multiplayer experience, within an environment full of different characters and methods of play. The players, both working toward a common goal and contesting for territory with opposing factions, will shape not only their own game experience but that of every other player in the game.
Forest Finder
Ben Brown
Forestry Finder is a piece of software available online for anyone, but particularly loggers, to use as a way to save a gps location in order to orient yourself or find it later. Using this online app one can easily mark and remember the exact position of biomass, yourself, or the boundaries on a job site. The simple design and incredibly low barrier to entry means that even the most technologically challenged logger can join.