Imagine Cup

My Team



Movement Studio
Mexico
Software Design
We are all Mexican IT students, currently studying the 4th semester at 'Universidad Panamericana' on Mexico City. We formally started developing DYMO, our project for Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition, on January 2009.




The Team
pillifp
Universidad Panamericana
davidctovar
Universidad Panamericana
Adrián
Universidad Panamericana
alexsovich
Universidad Panamericana
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Round Entry
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Education is our world’s future and millions of children don’t have access to it, this has a negative impact on the development of humanity on every level.
It is important to understand that education must reach every single person, and that this education must be of great quality, especially in the subjects of mathematics, reading and writing.
Most of the technologies that are available to solve this problem, don’t take into account that of all the children in the world, 200 million suffer from some kind of disability, and according to the UNO 90% of them don’t have access to education, a universal right to which we are all entitled to. We also have to point out that most of these children suffer from some kind of motor disability.

 

Children with motor disability require constant therapy, which is very painful, unpleasant, and many times monotonous and boring. They attend therapy because their priority is to walk or to move their arms. As a result, education loses importance and in most cases it is nullified.   

 

DYMO is the solution which allows children to have access to education and continue their therapeutic process in a fun way, using technology which provides innovation and quality to their learning process.


Team Questionnaire
Question: Team Members Full Names:
Answer: Claudia Patricia Flores Pérez, David Casillas Tovar, Alejandro Bermúdez Fierro, Adrián Revuelta Cuauhtli.

Question: Mentor:
Answer: PhD candidate Félix Martínez Ríos

Question: Title of Project:
Answer: DYMO

Question: Project Overview:
Answer: Our project is aimed at providing a new way for users to interact with their computers and devices. Through the use of image analysis, color segmentation and artificial intelligence algorithms, DYMO can detect any part of the body the user chooses. DYMO’s cost is very low because we only need a webcam, a processing unit powerful enough to deal with DYMO’s algorithm.

Question: Technology/Software Used:
Answer: DYMO was completely developed on the .Net platform using DirectShow libraries for video stream capture from a webcam and image processing. It has a color segmentation algorithm, used in several applications currently implemented as educational games, all programmed on C#.

Question: Inspiration: What inspired your team to enter the Microsoft Imagine Cup and why did you choose the Software Design competition?
Answer: Our mentor, Felix Martinez, heard of the Imagine Cup competition. It was he who first proposed that we join this competition and get a general idea of what this kind of events are like and how much we are really prepared for this challenge. We are all IT students, so software design was the obvious option to participate in.

Question: Team History: How did your team meet?
Answer: We are all students attending the same university and the same major, and we share the same passion for technology, creativity and innovation.

Question: Team Experience: What experience did your team have with Software Design before competing in the Imagine Cup?
Answer: At our university (Universidad Panamericana) we find ourselves constantly challenged by our teachers with innovative and hard to implement software design projects.

Question: Highlights: What has been the best part of the Imagine Cup competition to date?
Answer: Without a doubt, the day of the local competition. It was great to see all those original projects from different schools all over Mexico. The whole event was exciting throughout the entire day.

Question: Inspiration: How did your team come up with your submission? Include which Millennium Development Goal inspired your solution.
Answer: At the local stage of the competition in Mexico, a requirement was to create software for handicapped children so we visited a rehabilitation center. We saw what the children needed and liked best. That’s how DYMO was born. Primary education and health are the goals our project is aimed at.

Question: Challenges: What personal or technological challenges did your team face while developing your submission?
Answer: Because we have just started studying our major in IT, we didn’t have the necessary knowledge to implement the idea we had chosen. We had to do a LOT of research in the fields of computer vision, image segmentation and artificial intelligence.

Question: Future Plans: What does your team plan on doing after the Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt? Do you plan to use your project to launch a new business?
Answer: We believe our project is unique and has a lot of potential both by improving the users physical and emotional abilities as well as business. In the future we would very much like to start our own enterprise, regardless of our result at Imagine Cup.

Question: Links to more information (i.e. website, blog):
Answer: Our blog: http://twitter.com/movement_studio Our school: www.upmx.mx

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