MIMS Final Projects: 2011

Track 1: Analysis of Information Systems

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Heart-Focus Game Development for Kids
Daniel Perry
CritterQuest is an interactive biofeedback game to help the 8% of kids with ADD and ADHD focus and self-regulate.
Advisor: Nancy Van House
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Manufactured Serendipity: Facilitating Accidental Innovation through a web application
Julián Limón Núñez
Development of a new web app, smartSparq, that provides a platform where breakthrough ideas and "happy accidents" can happen more often.
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
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Mobile Loyalty for Local Businesses
Jackson Hull
Development of a loyalty program for local businesses, like frequent flyer miles, but social and fun.
Advisor: Morten Hansen
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Notivate!
Advisor: Jenna Burrell
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The Digital Companion Project (for KQED)
Advisor: Yale Braunstein
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Visualizing Mental Maps of San Francisco
A qualitative study and series of visualizations that tap into people’s perceptions their own neighborhoods.
Advisor: Ray Larson

Track 2: Design of Information Systems

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BioGraph
Advisor: Ray Larson
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Community Based Design with Youth Radio
A user-centered design process involving Oakland youth, to develop a mobile application to improve interactions with police.
Advisor: Tapan Parikh
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iBear
Prateek Kakirwar
Advisor: Erik Wilde
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MeetMarket
Dan Byler
Designed for conference attendees who feel lost in a sea of unknown faces, MeetMarket lowers the barriers to networking and increases the likelihood of...
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
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NextDrop
NextDrop provides reliable, near real-time information about water arrival to households in developing countries with unreliable piped water.
Advisor: Tapan Parikh
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Picatcha: An Image Based CAPTCHA
Dhawal Mujumdar
A system of image-based CAPTCHAs, providing improved usability for mobile devices and an opportunity for online advertising.
Advisor: Robert Glushko
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trailmix: Curating Rich Media for Online Education
Alison Meier
A system for instructors to easily create educational narratives of online resources — videos, images, and text.
Advisor: Brian Carver

Track 3: Information Research

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Enterprise Social Software: Addressing Barriers to Adoption
How do — or should — companies use social software to encourage internal collaboration?
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
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Finding Skilled and Cohesive Teams in Large Scale Social Networks
Development of an algorithm for forming a socially cohesive skill-based team, based on both explicit and implicit interpersonal connections.
Advisor: Doug Tygar
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Making Metadata: The Case of MusicBrainz
An exploration of music metadata crowdsourcing, including understanding participation incentives, community norms, and official guidelines and standards.
Advisor: Brian Carver
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Masks: Designing for Privacy in Education
An examination of how privacy and identity impact education, and how we might support individual privacy and the communal learning experience online
Advisor: Brian Carver, Deirdre Mulligan
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metaPlay: Heroes. Monsters. Project Managers.
Advisor: Coye Cheshire
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Personal Primetime
How do Americans watch television in the age of DVRs, OnDemand, Netflix, iTunes, and Hulu? And how do we talk about TV in the age of Twitter and Facebook?
Advisor: Jenna Burrell

Programs