ICTD Capstone Presentations (CSE 482B)

Monday, June 3, 10:30AM- 12:20 PM,  CSE2 371

The ICTD Capstone (CSE 482B) brings together groups of students to work on projects to provide solutions for low resource environments.   Based on an initial project idea,  the students are charged with designing and developing a prototype system .   This quarter,  the projects were drawn from the domain of Global Health, primarily focusing on supporting mobile Apps for clinical support.

Students will give final presentations and project demos on Monday, June 3, 10:30am-12:20pm in CSE2 371.

The projects are:

ODK 1.5: Remaking ODK in the Modern World

Reliable and intuitive platforms for data collection are essential for critical information to be gathered and analyzed effectively. As technology evolves, the tools we rely on must also remain relevant and effective. We see an opportunity to leverage the technologies of today to enhance capabilities, streamline usability, and expand ODK's impact. ODK 1.5 explores a modernization of ODK Collect with the goal of creating a more robust and generalizable data collection platform that targets the niche needs of those in resource-constrained environments. 

A Content Editing Framework for Mobile Applications

The goal of our project was to create a framework for health researchers to be able to edit the content on a multilingual app quickly and easily. The starting point of the project was to replicate the MARA app -- a contraceptive/family planning app -- but our framework can be generalized for any content app.

Decision Tree WebApps for Health Protocols

  We created a web app that takes in decision trees to provide a decision support tool to aid healthcare workers in diagnosis of conditions via medical protocols. We have built a parser that is capable of parsing necessary information utilizing the CSV format of a customizable Excel form representing a decision tree inputted by users of our webapp. We use this parser to then generate various screens (similar to a questionnaire) to help a healthcare professional reach a diagnosis efficiently.

Cold Chain Tracking App

Our app is a mobile app that tracks data related to the status of vaccine storage refrigerators in developing countries. There are two views: a District Manager that updates refrigerator information in a specific district, and a System Administrator that assigns managers to districts. We have offline and online functionality for the District Manager, and a system of data synchronization and conflict resolution.

Referral and the Community Health Toolkit
Our project is centered around the work done through the Community Heath Toolkit. This work specifically is to support women in Kenya after they receive C-Section through 2 way texting since accessing instant medical assistance for check-ups isn’t always a viable option. We focused on creating data visualizations from the received data so that health care providers could better utilize this data to make effective and impactful decisions.