Undergraduate researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are creating diagnostics to test mosquitos for blood-borne pathogens. These diagnostics will combine a simple mosquito-processing device by Paratus Diagnostics with molecular technology to transduce the presence/absence of pathogens into a chemical signal for reading on a common pregnancy test strip.
While not quite palm-reading, scientists have long correlated behavior with the length of your fingers. In particular how long your pointer finger is relative to your ring finger seems to indicate how much testosterone you were exposed to in utero. There are many conflicting reports on what this ultimately means — but your ratio may be able to predict how well men can communicate with women, likelihood of going prison, sexual orientation, etc.
This app will take a picture of your hand and let you determine your ratio and interpret what this means.
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Authors:
Tim Riedel, Veronica (2015)
This app is designed to aide individuals in a self-examination of their skin. It is primarily aimed towards anyone concerned about cancerous or precancerous lesions. Users should examine their body every month to document possible changes and report to their doctor anything suspicious. The app first educates common users on what to look for on their skin and then begins the actual examination. Each page has specific instructions for which body area to focus on and an example image. An email reminder to examine again in 30 days is offered on the final page of the app. As the user goes through the examination, areas for observations are provided. If any findings seem unusual, users are encouraged to report to their doctor. The main goal of this app is help detect cancerous lesions and encourage the user to seek treatment.
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This app is designed to work on a mobile phone or device. Type this mobile friendly url into your device web browser:
Authors:
Vatsal
Lisa Royter (2014)
The following game aims to determine how perceptive users are of color. Color can be perceived in various degrees across and among species, and with this application, users can test their abilities by selecting the color sample they see as different than the rest, while being educated about human color perception. The application also links users to websites about color perception, and provides a simple score for users calculated by the questions they answer correctly, making users able to compare their score to an average or to that of their friends. This application uses color samples from Find The Data in order to provide a uniformly presented collection of famous colors with verified RGB values, which determine the differences of the colors.
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This app is designed to work on a mobile phone or device. Type this mobile friendly url into your device web browser:
Authors:
Viviana
The DIY mosquito project was written up in the September issue of Austin Monthly!
http://www.austinmonthly.com/AM/September-2015/Getting-Schooled/
This app is designed to let the user listen to the sound of different coughs. By matching the sound to the cough that you or your baby is experiencing, it may aid in diagnosis.
To access the app click here
This app is designed to work on a mobile phone or device. Type this mobile friendly url into your device web browser:
ta.gd/cough
Authors:
Salvador Arellano III (2014)
Tim Riedel
DIY is designing and constructing a “wearable” UV sensor. The goal of this sensor is to track your personal UV exposure amount as you go about your daily activities. The sensor measures the UV index and relays it to the user’s smartphone via Bluetooth.
We envision a lot of uses for this technology including prevention of sunburn and also allowing a user to “calibrate” their vitamin D levels based in real-world sun exposure amount.
Researchers:
Tim Riedel, Alykhan, Saef
Primary Colors can help someone who is colorblind take or upload an image on a phone or computer and view a processed image that is easier for them to see. The app works by taking the color at each pixel and rounding it to the nearest ROYGBIV color (colors of the rainbow). The user can then see the original image and the adjusted image side by side.
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This app is designed to work on a mobile phone or device. Type this mobile friendly url into your device web browser:
Authors:
Tim Riedel
Spring 2015 Students
Viviana
Veronica
Maurya
Vatsal
Hailey
Rachel
