Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finalists General Themes Women Innovators on the Rise: Female participation at the Worldwide Finals more than doubled this year, from 30 female students in Poland in 2010 to 65 in New York; additionally, there are four all-women teams competing at the event this year. Playing for the Environment: 24 percent of Worldwide Finalist projects* and 60 percent of Game Design projects address global environmental concerns. Seeing a Better Future: 22 percent of projects* (25 total) address accessibility; of these, almost half (12 total) specifically focus on solutions for visually impaired individuals. Helping address disasters: With the events of this past year as their muse, 23 percent of projects* (26 total) address the various aspects of disaster relief.

Technologies Used It’s Not Just the Phone That’s Smart: Windows Phone 7 is the most commonly used technology, with 48 percent of projects* (54 total) including a smartphone application — with uses ranging from finding the nearest recycling center to helping disaster victims broadcast their location. Head in the Clouds: 32 percent (36 total) of projects* use Windows Azure. Students Take the Lead on New Technologies: 10 projects feature Kinect technology. Projects Don’t Have to Ask for Directions: 30 percent of projects* (34 total) incorporate Bing Maps. Integrating for Success: 16 projects rely on Windows Azure, Bing Maps and Windows Phone 7. * This is a % of development projects and does not include the Digital Media competition and IT Challenge projects

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Imagine Cup 2011 Worldwide Finalist Project Descriptions Software Design Finalists Country

Team Name

School(s)

Project Description SurgeReal helps students and surgeons practice basic surgeries by providing a 3-D organ image and step-by-step learning. With a solution much cheaper than its competitors and other simulators, SurgeReal answers a very critical issue faced by surgeons living in difficult areas around the world.

Epsilon

Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Informatique

Armenia

X-Tech

Yerevan State University, State Engineering University of Armenia

Australia

UCEEG

University of Canberra

Bangladesh

Rapture

American International University-Bangladesh

ThirdEye is a smartphone device for the visually impaired. It has camera assistance, a special user interface with vibration and speech feedback, voice command, and more.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

CPU Team

Slobomir P University

This project addresses people's inability to predict water movement direction or the amount of water on land surfaces in various disaster scenarios, including floods, dam collapses, tsunamis and periods of massive rain.

Brazil

LevelUp

Federal University of Pernambuco

EduAcademy is a cloud computing educational platform that provides teachers services, communication tools and specialized software for the most distinct situations faced within the learning-teaching environment.

Walk2Help

Technical University of Sofia, New Bulgarian University and Sofia University

This project encourages people to limit their carbon footprint, while also supporting good causes around the world. It utilizes multiple Microsoft technologies and the power of social media.

Lifeware S.A.C.

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

LifewareIntegra reduces the impact of living with a disability and allows people to use computers to access education and employment. This software reads and records neuro-signal patterns so that a user could train himself or herself to produce a specific signal pattern when thinking of a specific word.

Algeria

Bulgaria

Chile

Teach Me Now is an interactive process on an educational, group-based exchange platform. The system implies conditions that will apply to everyone interested in delivering trainings on an issue and those interested in acquiring new skills and knowledge. UCEEG provides a faster way for handicapped people to type with the power of thought by using the Emotiv EPOC brain-signal acquisition headset. It can detect mental commands, facial expressions and emotions, which are then translated to text by mapping the eight strokes of digital digits.

Technologies Kinect for Xbox 360, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows Live, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform Internet Explorer 9, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010 Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio, .NET platform Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

China

Care Everyone

Costa Rica

CarPooling Mate Finder

Croatia

Apptenders

City Institute, Dalian University of Technology Universidad de Costa Rica, Tacares Campus Faculty of Electrical Engineering And Computing, University of Zagreb

This project aims to provide a convenient and efficient method for physically disabled people to get access to information without barriers. By combining image and speech recognition, disabled people can use computers to surf online, communicate with others and play games. This solution currently uses Windows Phone 7 and social networks to help individuals find groups for carpooling based on the routes people take every day. KiDnect is a technology to aid in physical therapy for children with cerebral palsy. This software has the ability to monitor a child’s exercises to ensure they are being completed correctly.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7 Kinect, Windows 7, XNA Game Studio, .NET platform

A Windows Phone 7 application that allows the user to diagnose health-related problems he or she may have. It is integrated with Bing Maps, which provides the user the ability to view a list of doctors that are specialized in the specific area based on the user’s current location. Celebrio is an operating system designed specifically for the elderly. It also helps people with low vision, bad dexterity or technophobia by giving users a natural way to control a computer through touch. Skillbox is an affordable and accessible solution to teach children with disabilities; it aims to improve living conditions for children with hearing loss or motor disabilities by providing a viable solution through stimulating the senses and the ability to learn while playing. Through this online system, patients have the ability to look for a doctor, set an appointment and read about their medical condition in Arabic; doctors can develop electronic medical records for their patients and move away from paper records. Vigilis software is a tool for parents to keep a watchful eye on their children in a world where socializing is done with the press of a button; it provides children with the ability to immediately document any cyberbullying or sexual harassment they experience online or via mobile.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight Windows Azure, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

École Française d’Électronique et d’Informatique

The eBakPak embeds the majority of tools any pupil can have in his or her backpack in a single application.

XNA Game Studio, .NET platform Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight Kinect, Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio, .NET platform

Cyprus

iDoc

Czech Republic

Celebrio Software

Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University

Ecuador

Falcon Dev

Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo

Egypt

Cairo Team 3

Finland

25k

France

Dream'n'Touch

Germany

majiRanger

Dresden University of Technology

MajiSolution is a data-management system that aims to bring efficient drinking water supplies to African countries. It enhances the conception and planning of new installations for better and regular provisions of drinking water.

Epione

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Epione is an integrated system for managing physical and emotional pain. It is an unobtrusive gadget that can detect both pained expressions and a user's psychological condition and then connect a physician to the patient through a mobile device.

Greece

Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight

University of Cyprus

Faculty of Computers And Information, Cairo University Turku University of Applied Sciences

Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7 Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Infiniti

University College of Engineering, Punjabi University

Patiala provides numerous assistive technology features to give disabled people, especially those who are visually impaired, easier access to information on the Internet.

Windows Azure, Internet Explorer 9

Gatotkaca

Telkom Institute Of Technology

Offers a simple solution for malnutrition issues by giving information access and first-stage malnutrition detection to a community through a mobile phone application.

Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010

Iraq

Hawk

American University of Iraq, Sulaimani

The Refugee Welfare project is a secure system for registering refugees and their welfare needs, such as health care monitoring, education and aid distribution. It provides a mobile way for staff and users with little training to enter data relevant to the needs of the refugees.

Windows Phone 7, .NET platform

Ireland

Hermes

Institute of Technology Sligo

This project uses embedded technology, mobile devices and cloud computing technology to change driving habits and reduce road deaths.

Italy

Nea Soft

University Federico Secondo of Naples

OMCR supports users with severe disabilities by enabling them to use a personal computer to communicate, learn and play without relying on traditional interaction devices, such as a mouse and keyboard.

Japan

MI3

Doshisha University

This project helps local residents by harnessing the power of the cloud to solve the problem of doctor shortages in some parts of Africa.

Oasys

German Jordanian University, Petra University, Princess Sumaya University

This affordable and innovative system allows quadriplegic patients to control a computer with their head.

Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows Live, Microsoft Silverlight

Sejong University

DreamHUB enables a child living in poverty to connect with several financial sponsors through a portal that allows constant communication, which can help create a support network.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight

India

Indonesia

Jordan

Korea

Four Leaf Clover

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7 Kinect, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010 Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Kuwait

SWAP Team

American University of Kuwait

Revolutionary Reporting System is image-reporting software that uses geographic location tagging to report accidents, environmental hazards, thefts and medical emergencies.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

Lebanon

D4W

American University of Beirut

Tale of a Tree Wisp was developed for children and aims to raise awareness about the toll that the unchecked growth in developing nations is taking on our planet.

Visual Studio 2010

Malaysia

Team Cyber Knightz

UCTI University, Asia Pacific University

Mexico

Ibero Mexico

Universidad Iberoamericana

Morocco

Whitelight

Netherlands

Olife

École Marocaine des Sciences de l’Ingénieur Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology

New Zealand

OneBuzz

University of Auckland

Nigeria

Nerds Inc.

Federal University of Technology

Oman

Edunology

Sultan Qaboos University

Health3 system helps cancer patients monitor their health, treatment and diets. It also assists patients and their loved ones to reach out to online resources and others in similar situations.

Kinect, Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7,

Brain is a system that brings knowledge, through technology, to children who have interrupted their education due to natural disasters, allowing them to continue their intellectual development. Whitelight is a set of applications to guide visually impaired individuals from Point A to Point B using vocal instructions, while also offering tools to help families and nongovernmental organizations stay connected with them.

Kinect, Windows Azure, XNA Game Studio, Visual Studio 2010 Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight

The City Cloud is a cloud computing platform that brings together different kinds of data generated by its inhabitants, businesses and government, with the goal of providing the first steps toward a self-regulating city.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform

This project focuses on tackling malaria with sophisticated technology that identifies areas of high risk and provides real-time information to those concerned so they can act accordingly.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight

Project Medicare enables doctors to communicate with patients on the Medicare system and make diagnoses from patient data when they are unable to have physical contact with their patients due to long distances. Project HELP me Educate Others enables donors to participate in educating less fortunate individuals in the world by acting as a hub between the helper, the school and the student being financed.

Bing Maps, XNA Game Studio Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9

Pakistan

V3C

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Islamabad

Palestinian Authorities

Vital Dreams

Palestine Polytechnic University

The project uses a speech-recognition technology to translate the user's questions to text, search for the answer on the Internet and then spell it out to the user. It is designed for people without an education, children and individuals with disabilities.

.NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

Nawy Harkay

Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo

The project enables users to operate Windows 7, with minimal effort, by using their eyes instead of their hands.

Windows 7, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

polymor.ph

Ateneo De Manila University and Del La Salle University

Polymorph makes educational videos in English by using Microsoft Speech API to recognize audio and generate subtitles, which are filtered for keywords and queried in articles. The videos are given to educational institutions around the world, including those without Internet access in remote, non-English-speaking areas.

Windows Azure

Peru

Philippines

Voice Controlled Cellular System for Special Citizen is designed to enable physically handicapped and visually impaired users to operate a computer with voice controls.

Internet Explorer 9

Poland

CodeRaiders

Polytechnika Lodzka

LifeCircle+ aims to minimize the problem of blood shortages in blood centers, which ensures adequate amounts in case of emergency. It also promotes the idea of donating blood via social networks.

Portugal

RescueMe

Instituto Politecnico do Cavado e do Ave

Helps disaster rescue teams coordinate their forces on the ground and provide better distribution of resources.

Team A41

Universidad Metropolitana, Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez

All 4 One Solutions is designed to increase awareness and community participation in addressing environmental and social issues. Medical Interactive Recovery Assistant (MIRA) is an application to enable people suffering from temporary handicaps to recover interactively at a faster pace. It also enables doctors or specialized medical personnel to facilitate the recovery process for their patients.

Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, .NET platform

Romania

Simplex

Babes-Bolyai University, ClujNapoca

Russia

Oriteam

Moscow Aviation Institute

Oricrafter is a multi-touch system that supports creating and exchanging origami.

Senegal

CYAN GIRLS

L’ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar

This project uses the cloud to address agriculture, fishing and breeding and allows all the actors in these sectors to interact to reduce poverty and hunger, enable gender equality, and preserve the environment.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010 Kinect, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010 Kinect, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010 Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010

HAUS project helps consumers manage their monthly energy bills by optimizing their electrical energy and non-replenishable resource consumption

Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, .NET platform

Puerto Rico

Serbia

4K-join

University Of Novi Sad

Singapore

ElderGuardian

Temasek Polytechnic

Slovakia

Zippers

Technicka Univerzita v Kosiciach

Slovenia

2ndsight

University of Maribor, Feri

This software for smartphones is based on the adjusted user interface for blind and partially sighted people so they can easily access various applications and menus on their devices.

South Africa

Komodo1

University of Cape Town

Project HAWK is a crowd-sourced, collaborative information-aggregation, reporting and geo-visualization system geared toward community-centric disaster management and neighborhood improvement.

The Elder Rehabilitation Support System (ERSS) uses Kinect for Xbox 360 to aid in stroke rehabilitation and recovery with exercises specifically designed for stroke patients. Mapz was developed to raise living standards of visually impaired people. It’s integrated into a mobile application with a user interface adapted to the needs of someone who is blind. It also enables a blind user to be guided remotely by another person through use of a crowdsourcing application.

Kinect, Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010 Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

Spain

Sri Lanka

Software4life

Pera Soft

Sweden

Life Map

Switzerland

Texting4All

Taiwan

Miner

Thailand

NewKrean

Trinidad & Tobago

Codec

Tunisia

Sight Browser

University of Castilla, La Mancha

WaterSense aims to bring drinkable water to the poorest areas of the world with a three-layer structure that gives support to the volunteers of the area. NGOs manage projects and get donations and a social media component allows citizens to give donations.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight

University of Peradeniya

Project Hear Through Eyes is a communication tool that helps to achieve two-way communications for hearing-impaired people in the world using sign language. A voice is translated into sign Language and then sign language is translated into voice in real time.

Kinect

Life Map helps make the world a better place by making it easier for people to donate money to charitable organizations.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight

Uppsala Universitet

Hendrik Knoch Taipei University Chulalongkorn University University of the Southern Caribbean Engineering School of Gabes

The EasySMS application empowers illiterate people to read, compose and send text messages to their contacts through text-to-speech solutions. Adeona aims to aid in the search for missing children and aged persons during search and rescue missions through innovative visual data-mining and informationextraction techniques. Terra allows disaster victims to broadcast their location through social networks in the event of a disaster to alert rescue workers, friends and family to the victims’ exact location. Education Elevated through Technology enhances the motivation and communication level of the three major stakeholders in education — teachers, parents and students — in an effort to address school dropout rates, poor personal development and illiteracy skills. Sight Browser targets people with visual impairments; achieving a tool tailored to meet their stringent criteria is necessary to ensure that blind and partially sighted people can benefit from access to the Internet.

Windows Phone 7, Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio 2010 Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010 Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Visual Studio 2010 Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight

Co2ncerned

Bahcesehir University

Co2ncerned created a system where individuals and corporations calculate their CO2 emissions and balance it by donating to environmental projects. CO2ncerned is a common platform for environmental sustainability and social responsibility.

Uganda (East & South Africa)

Quest-0

Makerere University College of Science, Makerere University School of Computing and Informatics

Crimex, a desktop-, mobile- and Web-based system, focuses on crime pattern analysis in developing countries. Its capabilities range from crime pattern recognition to facial recognition capabilities in hopes that a decrease in crime will result in a decrease in poverty.

Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Ukraine

DashPoint

Computer Academy Step, Odessa

Enables people who are both deaf and blind to communicate with the world through the use of a special vibration device connected to their computer.

Windows Phone 7, .NET platform

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

The Hex Pistols

United Kingdom

Project OVE

University of Manchester

United States

Note-Taker

Arizona State University

Venezuela

UCV-Ideas

Universidad Central de Venezuela

MIGI

Hanoi University of Technology

Vietnam

University of Wollongong in Dubai

MomEcare is a mobile application that assists medical staff in giving quality medical assistance to pregnant women by guiding them through the steps of performing a self-checkup if they are unable to go to a hospital. Project OVE (Open Volunteer Exchange) is a distributed platform enabling volunteering organizations to exchange volunteers. This project aims to help people quickly organize events requiring a workforce of volunteers with specific skills. A portable device that helps visually impaired students by utilizing a touch-based tablet connected to a camera that shows a whiteboard on one half of the screen and allows notes to be taken on the other half. Interactive Whiteboard and Table Revolution are devices made of low cost elements that allow classrooms to be dynamic and fun for students; they create a collaborative atmosphere that inspires students to learn and teach each other. Migi is an online community website to share used items. Migi makes giving, receiving and using second-hand and brand-new items simple, fun and accessible to everyone.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight

.NET platform Windows 7, Windows Touch XNA Game Studio Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, .NET platform, Visual Studio 2010

Embedded Development Finalists Country

Team Name

School(s)

Algeria

Green Schtroumpfs

Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Informatique

I'm Powering gives companies and green installations opportunities to do something for the planet by reducing or cutting off their electricity bill, thus improving their image by being labeled green and ecofriendly.

Brazil

Embedded Brain

UFPE, Universidade de Pernambuco, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco

China

Harmonicare

1stCareTaker is a monitoring system for patients that implements low-cost hardware integrated into an embedded platform. Patients’ vitals are monitored automatically, which eliminates feelings of abandonment and makes service prioritization more effective. Harmonicare is lung-training equipment based on a harmonica. This device converts boring respiratory training into entertainment by improving a user’s health situation and bringing a sense of achievement.

Colombia

Freakin' Mind

Tsinghua University

Universidad Icesi

Project Description

S8VER is a technological tool that aims to address the high mortality rates when natural disasters occur by flying over the areas affected by natural disasters and identifying survivors that need to be rescued.

Technologies Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Embedded

Windows Embedded XNA Game Studio, Windows Embedded Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Embedded

Ain Shams University, Computer and Systems Engineering École Française d’Électronique et d’Informatique

Now I See is a system that serves as an extra set of eyes for someone who is visually impaired. Rather than relying on someone else to describe objects and colors, this device is able to do that. LinkTV is a project that aims to help elderly or isolated people connect with others thanks to the realization of four modules: Messaging, Video and Photo, Videoconferencing, and social activities.

JOFNET

Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg

JOFNET is an automatic job adviser for day laborers specifically designed for the poorest people in developing countries.

Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Embedded

India

Drushti

V.E.S. Institute of Technology

This project provides visually impaired users a natural way of interacting with a computing device via a proposed tactile grid. Drushti means “sight” in Hindi, one of India’s most-used languages.

Windows Embedded

Indonesia

MACARA

University of Indonesia

The goal of EDCOS is to reduce the energy crisis and malnutrition through the breeding of algae to help reduce the effects of global warming.

Internet Explorer 9, Windows Embedded

This new donation system utilizes touch display and digital signage to enable residents to donate to charities by watching an advertisement rather than giving money out of pocket.

Windows Azure, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Embedded

Egypt

ideas 4 u

France

Give Me 4

Germany

Windows Embedded .NET platform, Windows Embedded

Japan

SunDonation

Kyoto University Graduate School, Osaka Municipal College of Design, Institute of Information Security

Korea

Link Your Passion

National University

Know Your Water system is composed of three modules that aim to monitor water quality, inform people of water location and sanitation level, and educate people on necessary hygiene in an effort to reduce child mortality.

Pakistan

The Pioneers

Lahore University Of Management Sciences

Project CleverGrid enables better power distribution and management for the developing world by using smart-meters and an embedded supplier powermonitoring system.

Poland

WCY_TEAM

Wojskowa Akademia Technicza

COP4CE combines a portable device and a central command center system to enable police and rescue unit coordination and support.

Windows 7, Windows Embedded

Romania

Endeavour_De sign

“Gh. Asachi” Technical University of Iasi

An intelligent robotic system designed to automatically avoid obstacles and find its way back to its control signal when it loses contact with its human operator.

Windows 7, Windows Embedded

Russia

Calvus

Visual Studio 2010, Windows Embedded

Singapore

Skynet

Spain

Argitech

An embedded device to automatically control the very specific environmental conditions for the breeding and rearing of larval axolotl, a kind of animal used in stem cell research. L.O.C.U.S is a low-cost system for retrieving and collating data in post-disaster situations. Intelligent Lighting System (Smart Light) is a public-street-lighting management system that collects data from the status of the street and lights them according to their specific needs rather than by the time of day, which results in a reduction of power consumption.

Saratov State Technical University Nanyang Polytechnic Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Bing Maps, Windows Embedded

Windows Embedded

Windows Embedded

Windows Embedded

Taiwan

NTHUCS

United Kingdom

Cycling into Trees

USA

Syntax Errors

National Tsing Hua University

University of York

Santiago Canyon College

This project is intended to save lives in the event of a fire emergency. By connecting a network of wireless sensors to a well-designed e-box, the e-box can plan a safe escape route for all residents of a building using the most up-to-date information to guide them to safe exits using signals and laser beams. Child Sleep Safe uses a mixture of embedded hardware, software and home automation systems to reduce crib death numbers by monitoring a baby while sleeping. This self-contained mobile workstation based on an embedded RTOS platform and managed code application allows emergency workers to track assets, such as medical suppliers, water, food, and personnel, in real time during emergency relief efforts.

Windows Embedded Windows Phone 7, .NET platform, Windows Embedded Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Embedded

Game Design (Mobile) Finalists Country

Team Name

School(s)

France

Close World Mobile

Epitech

France

Geekologic

Ingesup, Supinfogame

Mexico

Fomis Phone Team

Russia

CRS

USA

Team Dragon

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Yaroslavl State University Rice University

Project Description In this game, Hilomi is a little child living alongside many other species, one of which doesn't pay attention to the planet. She cannot accept it and thus decides to change their behavior. “Brainergy” is a Windows Phone 7 Puzzle Game in which the player has to solve different challenges based on renewable energy. From the beginning of the adventure, players are confronted by a polluted world and will need to use renewable energy to clean it.

Technologies Windows Phone 7, XNA Game Studio Windows Phone 7, XNA Game Studio

“The Chronicles of Balam” is a 3-D adventure game where players assume the role of a young jaguar who must improve the world to earn Millennium Insignias.

Windows Phone 7, XNA Game Studio

“Cleaney: Smiley Who Saved the Earth” is a game for kids ages 2 to 5 years old to learn about the world around them and how to treat the environment.

Windows Phone 7, XNA Game Studio Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, XNA Game Studio

“Azmo the Dragon” is a game that helps children to learn about asthma through the role of a dragon that destroys civilizations.

Game Design (Windows/Xbox) Finalists Country

Team Name

Belgium

Crash Games

School Campus Graaf Karel de Goedelaan, Howest

Project Description “Global Green” helps players learn about many global problems while having a lot of fun trying to achieve the highest score for saving the world.

Technologies XNA Game Studio

Brazil

Replay

Federal University of Pernambuco

Brazil

Signum Games

Universidade Positivo

Czech Republic

WickedTeam

Brno University of Technology

Thailand

JubJub

Mahidol University

“HopeBlocks” allows the player to take steps toward changing the world by putting the player in charge of organizing people so that they work together and improve their surroundings. In “UCan,” players create strategies to find the best way to help the world. Their resources are volunteers and money, and players must manage them intelligently. In “Firefighters: Whatever It Takes,” players must find ways to evacuate civilians in danger and extinguish fires as fast as they can in order to save the largest area of forest possible. “Junk Master: The Journey to Junk Lord” is a challenging and innovative game that can educate the player about garbage classification and the three “Rs” (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle).

XNA Game Studio Windows 7, XNA Game Studio Windows 7, XNA Game Studio XNA Game Studio

Game Design (Web) Finalists Country

Team Name

Bulgaria

GreenWorld

Philippines

Signum Fidei

School Sofia University, University of Hertfordshire

Project Description “GreenWorld” is an online multiplayer game concerning the world's biggest ecological and health problems; this game was developed on a Microsoft Silverlight platform.

De La Salle University

“Conjunct!” was developed using HTML 5 and represents social issues and problems as puzzles in different locations around the world.

Cellardoor

Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza

Slovakia

Quegee Team

Slovak University of Technology

USA

ICsquared

Poland

Ithaca College

“The Book of Elm” illustrates the importance of taking care of the environment in everyday life through the interactive story of Elm, a creature on a quest to fix the mistakes done by people around the world. This game was developed using Microsoft Silverlight. Developed on a Microsoft Silverlight platform, “The Green Game” challenges players to solve common environmental issues using new and exciting technologies, intelligent devices and unusual ideas. Developed on an HTML 5 platform, “Embryonic” is a combination of arcadestyle games to promote awareness and education of maternal health and an awareness of rudimentary genetics.

Technologies Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight Internet Explorer 9, HTML 5 Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Silverlight Internet Explorer 9, HTML 5

Digital Media Finalists Country

Team Name

Brazil

Quarentaedois

India

Green Uno

School Universidade Estadual Paulista Madurai Kamaraj University, University of Birmingham

Project Description Dream is a short video that expresses the team's hope that people never stop dreaming for a better world — the team believes it is through dreams that technology expands and gives people a better world. This project proposes to implant individual sensors with the aid of robots as a fool-proof mechanism against man’s aggression toward trees. Under this unique id system, every tree can reclaim to its right to grow, mature and blossom.

Oman

Brothers Forever

Romania

M.N.A.

Taiwan

Cottoncandy

Sultan Qaboos University NW College London, Universitatea Bucuresti National Taipei University of Technology

The video, narrated by a man from the future, shows a better future with a great invention that can help reduce pollution by filtering smoke and toxins from the air. This team asks, “What if technology suddenly became available to those less fortunate? What if technology could offer the ones without food or shelter a new chance to a better life?” This team tells the story of how many species are becoming extinct because of the “HIPPO dilemma” and shows viewers how they can help with animal conservation.

Windows Phone 7 Finalists Country

Team Name

School

Belgium

Digitron-WP7

Campus Graaf Karel de Goedelaan, Howest

Korea

HOMERUN

Dongguk University, Samg Myung University

Korea

Singapore

USA

Zipi Zigi

Code Instincts

LifeLens

Project Description “Dregon” is a game where players combat widespread disease by going on a quest to find a potion that will cure the sick to save themselves and their fellow “Dregons.” “Peekaboo” enables members to communicate efficiently without limits of space and time with a system that combines a treasure-hunt game with a private network dedicated to family.

Technologies Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, XNA Game Studio Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, XNA Game Studio

Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Soongsil University, Korea University of Technology and Education, Ewha Women's University

Hot Potato fights indifference by showing users where and when local problems are happening through Bing Maps. As more and more people look into the matter, the spot gets bigger, suggesting the importance of the event and increasing public awareness.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7

Temasek Polytechnic

The Recyclocator mobile application makes recycling more convenient by enabling users to locate the nearest recycling bin using a Windows Phone 7 device.

Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, .Net platform, Visual Studio 2010

University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management; University of California, Davis; Harvard Business School; University of Central Florida

Lifelens is an innovative point-of-care tool to diagnose malaria using an augmented mobile smartphone application. The project addresses the unacceptably high child mortality rates caused by the lack of detection and availability of treatment of malarial diseases.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Interoperability Challenge Finalists Country

Team Name

School

Brazil

Bells Team

Federal University of Pernambuco

Project Description #ProDeaf is a mobile application that aims to allow a fluent, real-time communication between deaf and non-deaf people by converting any speech sounds into sign language and vice versa.

Technologies Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Windows 7, Microsoft Silverlight

Greece

Poland

Alaniarides

Athens University of Economics and Business

Touring Machine is an innovative platform designed to offer a new kind of experience in culture for adults and children. It is a personalized, highly customizable tour guide that conforms to the visitor’s characteristics and demands.

DemosceneSpirit

Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

This project helps prevent and respond to devastating floods. The system’s probes can pinpoint dykes that may fail, a simulation module allows virtual flooding of large areas to assess potential impact, and an online solution helps establish contact between flood victims, charitable organizations and volunteers willing to help.

Bing Maps, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio, .NET platform Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Microsoft Silverlight

Windows Touch Challenge Finalists — Only the first-place team will attend the Worldwide Finals in New York. Place

Country

Team Name

France

India Rose

Indonesia

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Telkom Institute of Technology

IUVO

Senior High School at Komaba, University of Tsukuba

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Japan

School University of Orleans

Project Description The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) helps in developing relationships with autistic people and children, in particular. The advent of computer science and touch-screen technology will make this method more accessible to children. Sparkins is a touch-based solution to help visually impaired children learn the Perkins Brailler. It works exactly like the Perkins Brailler, but uses a multi-touch-support tablet PC powered by Windows Touch. Scriboo is a touch-based application for tablet PCs that helps hearingimpaired people communicate with others. It behaves like a touch- and mobile-suited intelligent paper, providing a completely new writing-based communication method.

Technologies Windows Touch

Windows Touch

Windows Touch

IT Challenge Finalists The IT Challenge looks to see if competitors have the brain power and the intimate knowledge of massive enterprise infrastructures for managing diverse customer needs and scenarios. Country China France Germany Poland Romania Singapore

Team Name Xuewen Tian Jean-Sebastien Duchene Alexander Wachtel Blazej Matuszyk Sinescu Ionut Yunheng Mong

School Huazhong University of Science and Technology SUPINFO International University Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Poznan University of Technology Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Nanyang Polytechnic

Project Description In Round 1, each competitor passed a timed, online quiz that was offered at different times to move to Round 2. Competitors could take as many quizzes as they liked. They had to score 15 or higher on one quiz to automatically advance to Round 2. In Round 2, each competitor received the IT Challenge case study. They evaluated it and sent their Round 2 submission based on this unique casestudy scenario.

Orchard Challenge Winners Orchard is an up-and-coming open-source CMS platform based on ASP.NET MVC that is designed from the ground up to support modular extensibility. Challenge competitors were asked to change the world, one website at a time. Only the first-place team will attend the Worldwide Finals in New York. Place st

1 place

Country

Team Name

Denmark

MP Brun

Brazil

Virtual Dreams - Orchard

Serbia

Zveen Zveen Team

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3 place

School Aarhus University

Project Description This project creates a way for website administrators to make content more accessible on any Internet browser.

Technologies Orchard Platform

Escola Politecnica da Universidade de Sao Paulo and Universidade Estadual de Campinas

This solution aims to help blog readers take an immediate call to action, rather than just reading information about a particular issue.

Orchard Platform

Metropolitian University and Tehnicki Fakultet Mihajlo Pupin

Project eSchool enables fast and effective publishing of learning materials online, which helps teachers be more productive by giving students access to learning materials at school and at home.

Orchard Platform