Tag: Health
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clARify
The Microsoft Hololens is an augmented reality headset that superimposes graphics, animations, and images into the user’s environment. Although the typical Hololens consumer base consists of tech professionals, gamers, and designers; this student team developed a program utilizing the AR capabilities of the Hololens to assist hearing-impaired individuals. By scanning and interpreting the signals in…
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iNViVO
iNViVO is a mobile application and web platform designed to serve as a digital companion for prolonged exposure (PE) therapy, one of the fastest growing treatments for PTSD — an anxiety disorder that affects nearly 7.7 million adults every year in the United States. When paired with weekly in-person sessions, iNViVO creates an immersive digital…
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Ebb: A Capstone Project Goes Global
The adage “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” proved very true for one of our Fall 2016 Capstone teams. When circumstances no longer allowed them to pursue their project, the team was forced to develop a new game plan mid-semester. Within a week of intense brainstorming and heavy collaboration, an ingenious idea was born.…
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Changing the Culture Behind Concussion Reporting
Concussions are a growing problem in athletics across all types of sports, and convincing athletes to report these incidents and symptoms when they occur has proven to be quite the challenge. The NCAA and the Department of Defense recognized this issue and decided to do something about it. Offering a series of eight grants to various…
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Headstrong
The Problem: Sports are the second leading cause of brain-related injuries of people aged 18–24, with roughly 3.8 million sports-related concussions every year in the US. Of the athletes who show signs of a concussion, many are not removed from the game and continue to play with symptoms, or they return to play too soon.…
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The Impact
Currently, only about 50% of an estimated 3.9 million concussions that occur annually are reported. When left untreated, studies show that concussions lead to emotional imbalances, serious depression and the degeneration of motor functions. In response to this, the NCAA, together with the United States Department of Defense, created the Mind Matters challenge, a grant…
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Georgia Radio Reading Service
The Georgia Radio Reading Service is a 24-hour audio programming that serves the blind, visually-impaired, and print-impaired population in Georgia. Our team is designing a modern and interactive website dedicated to providing audio content in a digital, more accessible manner. What is our project? Currently, the GaRRs website is extremely outdated, as shown above.…
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Medicow
Medicow is an application committed to putting antibiotic-free food on your plate. We provide beef farmers with Dr. Brent Credille’s cutting-edge research about the most effective ways to treat sick cattle. Our app lists antibiotic suggestions with dosage and withdrawal times based on the affected body system. This app relieves Dr. Credille, an assistant professor…
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Ebb Hits the App Store
More and more people are struggling with anxiety everyday, but few know how to identify it, much less reduce it. This is where another amazing team of Capstone students saw a problem and devised a clever new media solution to address it. Working together, Madison Hall, Kristyn Hicks, Clarke Modlin, and Joe Reisigl researched anxiety…
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Fit Gym
Fitgym is an iOS fitness app that uses sensor and Internet of Things technology to inform users of the current capacity of the Ramsey Student Center and transforms the gym from a place that prompts excuses not to go, to a place users feel empowered to go. Living a healthy lifestyle is the fad…