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Summer 2024 Wrap

· 5 min read
Joseph Sweatt
Joseph Sweatt
Engineering Lead
Carlos Valdez
Carlos Valdez
Project Lead

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What Happened?​

Summer Get away

Throughout this summer our members went through many achievements and accomplishments. To begin, our members were able to get accepted into the Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP) and the Summer Undergraduate Research Program fellowship (SURP). Read more about it in our previous news update!

The Ojos Project then worked remotely through the use of Discord and other telenetwork software. With our group of 8 members meeting weekly, we push forward our goal on completing the Iris Software and Palliaview device prototypes. Additionally, it was an opportunity for our members to develop necessary career and research skills in there respective majors.

After, an initial set back in regards for funding for the group, Ojos project spent the next 12 weeks conducting research, designing, and familiarizing with the different technical skills and niches of field.

Also, our Research team began to look into a international completion known as the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) Conference as a viable goal for the Ojos Project and the requirements entailed.

In addition, some of our members began the hand-off of the Undergraduate Research Lab (URL). Prepping to recruit and serve as advisors and resources for new Undergraduate research teams.

Below are more details about each of our teams individual goals and updates.

Iris Development​

The developers finally began the very messy process of programming. We decided to take up the challenge and learn various tools that we're not too familiar with, such as the Rust programming language and NextJS. As well as learning these tools, we also adapted a collaborative workflow with GitHub and started using pull requests to better keep track of our process on specific features.

Iris User Interface Medication log Camera Feature

As of now, there isn't too much to show, as we're still actively working on Iris. As soon as we have more to show, we will immediately display it here.

Until then, the developers are working on a more technical news post to show what we've been doing during the summer, which will be released soon. Stay tuned!

Engineering News​

This summer, Engineers had goals of:

  • Fabricate our prototype Palliaview V0.2 after our initial modeling for deployment.
  • Begin certification and the skill training of many of the members including CAD, Additive Manufacturing, and electrical design.
  • Create and standardize design report for Palliaview.

initial model 1 initial model 2 initial model 3 Fabrication Practice

Fortunately, we were able to achieve most of our goals or make some advancement on every goal. With some goals still being finished this fall quarter.

To begin, our team created a 10 week outline on what we should do. In order to make sure we were set on pace to complete our goals. However, we had to adjust to compensate for summer obligations and personal matters that came up.

These changes include postponing and working asynchronously. And even adjust timelines to focus on different aspect of our Research.

For example conducting more research and improving reference models for our Research while we awaited for parts. Beyond this we began to look for public available design to implement as out mounting system for this iteration of Palliaview.

We have goals of completing our prototype for V0.2 by the end of this quarter to beginning our V0.3 of the process. Beyond this,our deployment of the project.

Research News​

To further our understanding of hospice care and its relationship with technologies, we aim to gather further insights from individuals with experience working in hospice settings. This includes nurses, caregivers, social workers, and volunteers who provide care. By engaging these groups, we seek to explore their perspectives on how various technologies affect the delivery of care, communication with patients and families, and overall workflow efficiency. By collaborating with those who have firsthand experience in hospice care, we hope to uncover valuable insights into how technology can better serve the needs of both caregivers and patients in these emotionally complex environments.

In addition, we have made some have made some achievements already; such as:

  • Outreach potential interviewee like healthcare professionals and caregivers
  • Standardize the research methods

Some Future Goals​

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These goals may just change as the quarter begins and we get things moving. As a baseline, here are some things we have in mind:

  • General
    • Finish IRB Training and Engineering Certifications
    • Finishing UROP symposium proposal
    • begin chasing course for the CHI Competition.
  • Engineering
    • With our preliminary designs being updated and nearly completed, the focus is producing and evaluation our Palliaview V0.2.
    • Begin a deployment in the end of Fall, or beginning of winter quarter.
    • Begin and compact our initial design in the V0.3 and begin incorporating more accessibility technology and biometric data
    • Conduct certifications of several our members to expand skillset
  • Developers
    • Create a beta version by early fall
    • Create a tool to easily install and test Iris on Linux

Thank you!​

Thank you!

As the Ojos Project moves forward, we would like to acknowledge all the contributions many of our members made. In addition, we are grateful the resources many of the supporters of our goal. Please stay tuned as we start our fall research again.

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