The first phase of the capstone experience is the selection of a project and the creation of teams. To help in this process, this page includes a list of some brief summaries of potential project ideas, although this list is by no means exhaustive. We very much welcome project ideas that stem from the team.
You may also wish to take a look at past project descriptions that have been selected in recent years. Those are not meant as future projects, but instead as a demonstration of the range and scope of capstone projects.
Organization: SLU Physicians
Potential Client: Dawn Hui, MD
Potential Supervisor: tbd
Description:
The goal is to develop a system that allows for medical remote
evaluation of patients using biometric data (e.g. heart rate,
activity, sleep) from existing commercially available wearable
devices (e.g., a Fitbit). The system will rely upon a patient's
mobile phone for the communication link from the device to the
remote electronic medical records, and will allow physicians to
remotely monitor and communicate with patients. The system may
also calculate additional variables derived from the primary
data such as variability of heart rate and activity and to alert a
physician to detection of critical levels.
Currently, students in these classes submit hard copies of hand-drawn diagrams, and if making later refinements of those models, they create and submit a new hard copy. The goal of this project would be to develop web-based tools that would provide convenient and uniform support for (a) students' creation, revision, and submission of such diagrams, and (b) instructors review, grading and providing feedback to learners. Additional goals would be to support educational research by doing downstream data analysis of aspects of the full collection of student-generated diagrams.
Organization: SLU CS
Potential Client: Dr. Kevin Scannell
Potential Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Scannell
Description: The goal is to mine the changelog history on
Wikipedia for your chosen language to try and extract the most
frequent spelling and grammatical errors.
Then, (1) turn this into a proofing tool to avoid the same
errors in the future, and (2) analyze and publish the results to
help language teachers focus on the most common mistakes.
Could also potentially
try this with source repositories for open source software
translations.
Organization: SLU CS
Potential Client: Dr. Kevin Scannell
Potential Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Scannell
Description:
The goal is to write a Firefox addon that allows a language
learner to click on any word on a web page, stem the word for
your chosen language, look up the result on an appropriate
dictionary web site, and display the result in a little js
popup. Things like this exist for a fixed language/dictionary
site - would want flexibility/generality.
Organization: SLU CS
Potential Client: Dr. Michael Goldwasser
Potential Supervisor: Dr. Michael Goldwasser
Description:
In a past project, a wonderful interactive tool was developed
allowing Computer Science students explore the topic of Huffman
encoding. Unfortunately, that software was developed as a Java applet
(available
here), and its accessiblity has been greatly hampered in
recent years by the lack of primary support for running Java in browsers.
The goal of this project would be to: (1) redevelop a similar
application in JavaScript for greater accessibility, and (2) look for additional ways
to extend or improve the functionality of the original tool.
Organization: SLU Sustainability
Potential Client: Allison Davis and Charlie Garavaglia
Potential Supervisor: tbd
Description:
The goal is to create a tool for urban study that would overlay
shapefiles regarding MetroBus routes and stops in St. Louis
County with Google Maps and street view, allowing researchers to
study the condition of the bus stops. Extended project goals may
be to provide further tools to facilitate the aggregation of data.
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