1. Project:Possibility

2. presents Orientation January 28, 2009

3. Welcome to the SS12 Orientation Agenda All about SS12 –Purpose –Projects –Judging –Schedule Q&A

4. What is Project:Possibility Our mission is to inspire a community of persons with disabilities and software developers to work together and make a difference by inventing software that will unlock new areas of life for persons with disabilities, giving them access to experiences previously impossible to achieve.

5. The Purpose of SS12 Create empowering software for persons with disabilities –Because technology is powerful –Because there is a need –Because we can Software: Open sourced –Malleable –Knowledge is retained and nurtured within a community –Free to those who need it most – it cannot be sold for profit SS12 is an Extension of Project:Possibility

6. Who is behind SS12? Organizers –Project:Possibility –UCLA Association for Computing Machinery Corporate Sponsors –Mozilla –Cisco –Google –Lockheed

7. Projects 1.Color Identifier 2.Mobile Sound Notifier 3.Handicap Map Annotation Tool 4.Handicap Site Annotation Tool 5.Phonetic Support for Word Predictor 6.AxsJax

8. Project 1: Color Identifier 8% of the male population is affected by color blindness (about 1 in 12). Most graphics and web applications are not developed with this in mind. Challenge: Develop a browser-plugin or a native app that can assist viewability by translating the RGB value to a human- readable color name. Alternatively, let a cell phone take a picture of something, and then identify its color. Mentor: Harold Tan (fasttrackfundraising.com)

9. Original map/graphic, where color information is vital to understanding of information

10. Map viewed by somebody with Deuteronopia (most common form of color blindness)

11. Map viewed by somebody with Tritanopia

12. Commercial device to assist the color blind or sight-impaired

13. Project 2: Mobile Sound Notifier Develop a mobile application that will alert the profoundly or completely deaf of some occurence he or she might not completely be aware of, like a car horn. Mentor: Jeff Wilhelm (Symantec)

14. Project 3: Handicap Map Annotation Tool Develop a Google Maps mapplet that allows users to annotate locations with information like whether handicap parking is available, etc. This idea is from a response to the NYT article. References: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/document ation/mapplets/http://code.google.com/apis/maps/document ation/mapplets/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJukKpQ DVLQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJukKpQ DVLQ Mentor: Ojas Mulay (Amgen)

15. Project 4: Handicap Site Annotation Tool Build a Firefox plug-in that allows users to annotate whether a web site is friendly to a variety of disabilities. This information can be communicated to users of those disabilities when they visit the site. When combined with a hierarchical directory, users with a disability can find web sites on a topic that are usable. Mentor: James Hon (ProsforPros.com)

16. Project 5: Word Prediction Time is money, but what about those who have limited mobility and can’t type quickly? This project is extending work completed in past SS12 and Semester Project This software helps people with limited mobility by predicting the next word to be typed based on past words/characters. Incorporate a phonetic mapping into the word predictor (e.g. where kat and cat are equivalent) to allow for misspellings on behalf of users. Useful Skills: –Data structures –User Interface –Algorithms Mentor: Michael Parker (Google)

17. Project 6: Axsjax There has been no way to report dynamic updates to a website to assistive technology—until now! (WAIARIA) AxsJax: Inject accessibility into existing websites This project will be using AxsJax to make Facebook more accessible Useful Skills –Web development –DOM –Javascript Mentor: Brian D’Souza (Amgen)

18. Exhibition Projects Possible Projects: Speaking Thunderbird –Integrate TTS engine to Thunderbird email client, and make the new module as an extension for thunderbird Games –For the visually impaired and/or hearing impaired Head Tracker –Use a web cam to track head movement and correlate it to mouse movement Web Cam Sign Language Interpreter Mentor: Anthony Aleta (Amgen)

19. Judging Is this something that someone would want to continue work on? This is open source! –Architecture –Code Quality –Documentation Is this an effective way of accomplishing the task? –Ingenuity –Innovation How well did we meet the challenge? –Challenge factor

20. Our Recommendations Divide and Conquer is the name of the game –Break into roles –Paired Programming –Elect a team lead Eat, drink, and be merry –take breaks, have fun! Spend sufficient time on design

21. SS12 Judges Emanuel Lin (Cisco) Gigi Lau (Raytheon) Ely Lerner (Amgen, Project:Possibility)

22. SS12 Mentors Brian D’Souza (Amgen) James Hon (ProsForPros.com) Ojas Mulay (Amgen) Michael Parker (Google) Harold Tan (FastTrackFundraising) Jeff Wilhelm (Symantec)

23. Prizes Grand Prize –$200 to each team member (Thanks Mozilla and Project:Possibility!) Second Place –$50 to each team member (Thanks Google!) Third Place –$20 Best Buy Gift Cards (Thanks Cisco!) Other Prizes –Sony giveaways –SS12 Tshirts

24. Schedule Wednesday – Orientation Students register project preferences Mentors contact team members on Friday Saturday Check in begins 8:30 AM Saturday (BH 4760) –Name tags –Team locations –Updated schedule Opening Remarks/Announcements begin promptly at 9:00 AM Code-A-Thon!!! Sunday Day begins promptly by 9:00 AM Project Presentations –~10 minutes/team at 5:30 PM

25. What to Bring Laptop with Wireless / Network cable AC Adaptor Pillows/blankets Text books/references Power Strip Routers/Hubs Please keep an eye on your stuff so it does not get stolen

26. To Do Vote for your project preferences, due by noon tomorrow. Set up SVN client on your computer Learn how to use wiki When you receive your project/team assignment –Set up relevant development environments –Re-familiarize yourself with your development environments Less fumbling, the better –Feel free to contact your teammates

27. Q&A ? ?

28. Thank You Mozilla Google Project:Possibility ACM Executive Board –Nima Nikzad and Sachin Thakkar You, for being part of SS12 Remember to submit your project preferences tonight!

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