Zooey
Zooey is designed to be unique in three area's: accessibility, device orientation and household assistance. First, greater accessibility allows for intriguing social impacts. Through Zooey's voice recognition and text-to-speech abilities, usage is nearly 100 percent hands-free. This could redefine how an individual goes about their routine by organization and minimization of mundane activities. Also, it is important for those that have impairments impacting their mobility. Second, we desired a virtual assistant that would work well on a PC device. While Siri and Cortana dominate the mobile market, they leave a lot to be desired when working on a desktop or laptop. Third, Zooey offers many features aiding individuals with simple, yet important, tasks around the house. Zooey is able to locate any file on your computer, open it, and then close it when specified. Along with this, users are able to access a particular search engine and search a specified topic. Zooey features the ability to turn on and off lights wirelessly by command. Furthermore, Zooey can utilize 36 mathematical calculations, chat locally across a server and schedule, alter and remove appointments in order to keep one's day organized. In order to construct Zooey, a background is necessary with Python/Java/C++, Win32 API, Networking, Cryptography, Raspberry Pi, utlizing libraries and basic Machine Learning concepts. The motivation behind this projects stems from our desire to learn the concepts listed above in greater detail while designing something that would be useful and interesting. With Zooey nearly complete, the results are beyond what we hoped to accomplish. Not only is Zooey a tool we can use daily, but we can be proud of creating something incredibly complex and ranging over a diverse amount of fields. A potential future feature includes the capacity to send commands to any computer on the network.
OcuMaze
The game takes place in a series of tunnels beneath the surface. In these tunnels, the player will have to navigate the maze and the obstacles it holds to successfully escape the mystery below. These obstacles will require a bit of thinking though and will not be all mindless tasks. The game will be played using the Oculus Rift and Razer Hydras (motion sensor controllers). The game will include dynamic puzzle-like features and a plot.
Tank Wars
Task: Further develop a game called "Tank Wars". This has been developed over the last several years. It will be debugged and enhanced by a four person team.
Role: SCRUM Master / Project Manager
Role: SCRUM Master / Project Manager
