It's time to start thinking about ideas for your semester prototyping
project.
Your project needs to focus on an app or website to help address some
real-world need that requires ease-of-use of a complex system.
You won't need to build a full implementation, but you also cannot have
your prototype rely heavily on black-box technology that does not yet
exist as a mainstream tool.
The following are some possible ideas or inspirations for ideas...
Ford Innovate Mobility Series
http://fordsvl.com/innovatemobility
FIA Seed Grant Kickoff event on September 29, 2014 at 2pm in the
Special Events Room (6173) of the McKeldin Library. Meet other
student participants and mentors, form teams, discuss potential
ideas with FIA partners and staff, hear from past Seed Grant
winners and be inspired to form you own team and compete.
http://www.fia.umd.edu/seedgrants/
Hack for Change's list of challenges in a variety of domains.
http://hackforchange.org/challenges/
Knight News Challenge (for us, what software/website could you design
to transform the role of libraries in the digital age?)
http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2014/8/25/news-challenge-explore-role-libraries-digital-age/
Mobile Health Applications for Consumers
http://www.hfes.org/web/HFESMeetings/2015hcsstudentdesign.html
Airport Cooperative Research Program
http://vsgc.odu.edu/ACRPDesignCompetition/
Citizen Journalist's Toolkit 2.0: A web/app based system to support
event-based team-based citizen journalism. Version 1.0 (PDF) at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~egolub/CJTK/
Code for Community Challenge III - perhaps you might be able to start work
on something for this in our class and then build the full version next
semester as part of this challenge and the DCC capstone...
http://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~achen/cfc/