2007 Third Year Project Poster Winners
Overview
February 12th 2007
After a difficult judging session involving Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Len Freeman and Toby Howard – who were all amazed by the extremely high quality of the work they saw – the School can now send its warmest congratulations to third year UG students Haroon Ahmed (CS, project supervisor Alan Williams) and Aloysius Tan (CSwBM, project supervisor Brian Warboys) who have won First Prize in their respective categories for best third year Project Poster. Haroon and Aloysius will soon receive their official certificates and prizes (book tokens), and their posters will be exhibited again for all to admire. Well done Haroon and Aloysius!
Project descriptions: Haroon Ahmed
A web based system which monitors a user's eating habits and exercise regime allowing them to reflect on how much food they are eating and how much exercise they are doing on a daily basis. The system also tracks the daily consumption of water and alcohol. These figures are measured against the user's Daily Calorie Need, and then the system recommends foods/drinks/exercise the user is deficient in.
The objective of the system is to create awareness for the user's diet and offers flexibility by allowing the user to have foods that they enjoy but also have a balanced diet. Users will learn how small changes can lead to big benefits. A poor diet and inactivity can lead to health problems, such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes, but by taking on board the healthy eating advice and physical activity tips that the system will provide, the user will soon see themselves on the way to a healthier lifestyle.
View Haroon's Poster [pdf].
Project descriptions: Aloysius Tan
Process modelling is a technique to model the dynamic behaviour of systems, typically of businesses and governments. These models aid in the design and analysis of its system to understand its behaviour and structure. One of the forms of such models is Process Oriented System Design (POSD), where the dynamic behaviour is represented by the composition of less abstract behaviours. Each composition can be further represented by lesser abstract behaviours till a fractal structure is obtained. This project aims to develop a browser accessible tool, which creates POSD models of systems. This tool provides a mean to create, edit and view such models of dynamic behaviours via a user interface that retrieves the model from a data structure.