Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finalists
Imagine Cup 2012 Worldwide Finalist Projects
Country / Teams / Country / Teams / Country / Teams / Country / Teams / Country / TeamsAlgeria / 2 / Czech Republic / 2 / Italy / 1 / Oman / 1 / Slovenia / 1
Argentina / 1 / Dominica Republic / 1 / Ivory Coast / 1 / Pakistan / 1 / South Africa / 1
Armenia / 1 / Ecuador / 1 / Japan / 3 / Palestinian Authorities / 1 / Spain / 1
Australia / 1 / Egypt / 3 / Jordan / 1 / Peru / 1 / Sri Lanka / 1
Bahrain / 1 / Finland / 2 / Kazakhstan / 1 / Philippines / 1 / Taiwan / 1
Bangladesh / 1 / France / 4 / Korea / 3 / Poland / 3 / Thailand / 2
Belgium / 2 / Georgia / 1 / Kuwait / 1 / Portugal / 2 / Tunisia / 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina / 1 / Germany / 1 / Lebanon / 1 / Puerto Rico / 1 / Turkey / 1
Brazil / 5 / Greece / 1 / Lithuania / 1 / Qatar / 1 / Uganda / 1
Bulgaria / 1 / Hungary / 1 / Malaysia / 1 / Romania / 4 / Ukraine / 3
Canada / 1 / Iceland / 1 / Malta / 1 / Russia / 1 / United Arab Emirates / 1
Chile / 1 / India / 1 / Mexico / 1 / Senegal / 1 / United Kingdom / 1
China / 2 / Indonesia / 2 / Morocco / 1 / Serbia / 1 / United States / 3
Croatia / 1 / Iraq / 1 / New Zealand / 1 / Singapore / 1 / Venezuela / 1
Cyprus / 1 / Ireland / 1 / Nigeria / 1 / Slovakia / 1 / Vietnam / 1
Software Design Finalists
Country / Team Name / School(s) / Project Description / Technologies
Algeria / Team Nakama / Ecole Nationale Superieure En Informatique (Esi), Ensm and USTHB / Brainiac is a hardware and software application that helps simplify technology use for individuals who are physically disabled and unable to use a computer without assistance. / Visual Studio 2010,Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Silverlight, XNA Game Studio
Argentina / Team BoddyMusic / Santa Teresa de Jesús, Instituto San Alberto / BoddyMusic is a virtual classroom application that specializes in music education for people with disabilities, enabling users to play various musical instruments with body movements via Kinect for Xbox 360. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows Phone
Armenia / Team mLab / State Engineering University of Armenia, YSLU / CleanH2O is an app that allows mobile users to assess the quality of drinking water via a water-testing device attached to a smartphone. The software provides statistical data on pollution levels and makes the data available to others worldwide. / Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing
Australia / Team StethoCloud / University of Melbourne / StethoCloud is a cloud-powered, mobile-hybrid stethoscope for early detection of pneumonia. By connecting a custom stethoscope to a Windows Phone, the user is able to transmit diagnostic information into a cloud service, reproducing the diagnostic capability of a trained medical doctor. / Windows Phone, Windows Azure
Bahrain / Team FutureTorch / AMA International University / LED Intensity Grid Highway Tracking and Surveillance System (L.I.G.H.T.S.) is a sensor system to allow streetlights to turn on when motion is detected and turn off accordingly. / .NET Platform, Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010
Bangladesh / Team Engine / BUET, American International University — Bangladesh and NSU / Annapurna is an agricultural resource platform that can increase land productivity and improve cultivation planning with intelligent natural resource management. With the help of database technologies, this system provides personalized cultivation guidelines throughdata mining, as well as GIS-based satellite imaging. / Windows Azure, Bing, Windows 7, Windows Live
Belgium / Team Make A Sign / Haute Ecole Rennequin Sualem, Inpres / Make a Sign is a sign language database for all languages, based on Kinect technology, enabling students of many different languages to learn to sign. / Kinect for Xbox 360,Windows Phone, Windows Azure
Bosnia and Herzegovina / SPU Team / Slobomir P University and Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad / ICU is a software application designed to aid the blind by projecting images and distances of objects onto one's forearm through a matrix of vibrating electro motors. The sense of touch provides a “picture” that can be used as a map. / Windows 7, Kinect for Xbox 360
Brazil / Team Digital Mangue / Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, POLI - UPE / First Care System monitors patients in real time, which can enhance the work of medical teams by using devices that capture and process the vital signs immediately and send the information through a common wireless network. / Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 7
Bulgaria / Team K-Vision / American University in Bulgaria, Sofia University St. Kl. Ohridski / C-Path helps the visually impaired to navigate more easily in their surroundings by safely avoiding obstacles through a Kinect and smartphone navigation system. / Windows Phone, Kinect for Xbox 360
Canada / Team Greeni / Centennial College, George Brown College / Using a Kinect sensor, light sensors, CO2 sensors and code running on Azure, this team created Green Project, a sensor system that will determine when to turn fans and lights on and off. It can also be controlled by voice. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows Azure
Chile / Team Lifeware / Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria / IntegraKinect is a tool for people with cerebral palsy that enables them to interact with a computer through a Kinect sensor and microphones to capture sound and movement. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7
China / Team Xight / Wuhan University / GlazIO is a low-cost system that captures the direction of an individual’s optical focus based on pattern recognition with Kinect, so individuals who are paralyzed or have missing limbs can use a computer. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7
Croatia / Team Spectrum / PMF - Fizički odsjek, University of Zagreb, Edukacijsko Rehabilitacijski Fakultet / Team Spectrum created a navigation system for visually impaired individuals in indoor environments. Through "wall markers," a Windows Phone detects objects in the environment and provides voice directions to aid navigation. / Windows Azure, Windows Phone, Windows 8
Cyprus / Team BrightSight / University of Cyprus / BrightSight is a Braille messenger app for the Windows Phone that enables an eyes-free method for texting. / Windows Phone
Czech Republic / Team JoyMind / Masaryk University, Mendelova University v Brne, Univerzita Hradec / The JoyMind application is a system for teaching English vocabulary based on three pillars: Learn, Speak and Move. Via Web, phone and Kinect-based applications, users have a low-cost and interactive way to learn a new language. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7
Dominican Republic / Team Fellowship of the Ring / Universidad Acción Pro-Educación y Cultura / The Statistics of Health and Economy by Location project is an application that provides a way to measure air quality at a given site. / Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing, Windows 7
Ecuador / Team Kany Warmys / Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo / Team Kany Warmys has created a mobile phone app called Cyclops.Users tell the phone where they would like to go via a voice command, and then the Cyclops app provides voice directions to the location with route details for the visually impaired. / Windows Phone, .Net and Bing Maps
Egypt / Team Level Up / Mansoura University / Level Up allows disabled persons who cannot use their hands to control their PC to receive the benefits of computer services such as writing, reading, learning and working. / Windows 7, Kinect for Xbox 360
Finland / Team Matalapaine / Turku University of applied sciences, Turun Yliopisto / Pregnancy 2 Baby is a system for pregnant mothers called a Mobile Maternity Card. It’s an application to track and store data relating to a pregnancy. The program allows the user to take notes each day on the status of the pregnancy, including weight, status and health checks. / Windows Azure, Windows Phone
France / Team CapStreet / ISCOM Toulouse, Ingesup, SUPINFO Toulouse / CapStreet consists of a website and application designed to map out accessible routes for people with disabilities. CapStreet will suggest differing routes for those in wheelchairs and on crutches,all according to the profile the user creates. It also allows user-generated updates to routes. / Bing Maps, Windows Phone
Georgia / Team Green Bytes / Tbilisi State University, International Black Sea University, Georgian Technical University / Green Bytes’ project focuses on environmental protection by helping users manage large volumes of garbage and waste. / Windows 8, Windows Phone, Bing Maps
Germany / Team Greenway / Universität Bielefeld, FH Hannover, Leibniz Universität Hannover / Greenway is a navigation system with the potential to reduce the CO2 emissions of cars by preventing traffic congestion. The system proactively routes city traffic by calculating the best route for each car and communicating that information to each driver. / Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Bing Maps, Windows 7, Windows 8
Greece / Team Symbiosis / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Symbiosis provides therapy for Alzheimer’s patients through augmented reality (AR) and provides support to all people affected by Alzheimer’s, such as caregivers and doctors. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows 7, Windows 8
India / Team D Labs / BIT Mesra Ranchi / D Labs allows tutors to understand the behavioral patterns of children with dyslexia by using games to assist them in alphabet identification and movement recognition. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Azure, XNA Game Studio, Windows 8
Indonesia / Team Malabar / Institut Teknologi Telkom / BrainStat is an application used to monitor the condition of drivers on the road,including levels of fatigue and loss of concentration and stress. BrainStat will give an early warning to the driver to prevent car accidents that may occur because of driver error. / Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7
Iraq / Team Mirage Tech / American University of Iraq - Sulaimani / EasyRoute is a traffic reporting system designed to prevent car accidents and traffic jams. This system can be leveraged in a variety of ways, such as allowing companies to track their deliveries and giving city officials useful data on traffic congestion. / Windows Phone, Bing, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio 2010
Ireland / Team docTek / National University of Ireland Maynooth / docTek Systems is a cloud-based healthcare management system designed for patients with multiple sclerosis. The application allows patients to manage their medication and symptoms using their mobile phones or the Internet and gives doctors access to patient data. / Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows 8
Italy / Team Italian Ingenium / Seconda Università di Napoli Ingegneria, Università del Salento, Università di Roma Tre, Politecnico di Milano / The Fifth Element Project gives autistic children the opportunity to learn and develop their intellectual skills through play and movement.It features voice recognition and motion detection and can be used in rehabilitation centers or remotely. / Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows Azure, Windows 7, Windows 8
Ivory Coast / Team E-Soft / Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët Boigny de Yamoussoukro / Evolve Safely enables real-time monitoring of the environmental settings in industrial areas to help maintain an adequate living environment for local populations and help administrative authorities address environmental threats. / Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Windows 7, Bing, .NET Platform, Visual Studio 2010
Japan / Team Coccolo / Tokyo National College of Technology / All Lights is a system that enables LED lamps to communicate with each other and automatically dim if there is more light in the room than needed, which allows the user to save on energy costs. / Windows Azure, Windows 7
Jordan / Team Dancing Pillow / Yarmouk University, Jordan University of Science and Technology / The dancing pillow is an electronic pillow that wakes hearing-impaired individuals and those with sleep disorders by employing multiple methods such as light, vibration, sound and smell. / Windows Phone
Kazakhstan / Team Etzoockee / Kazakh-British Technical University / Archangel is a cloud-based management system designed for people who are in emergency situations. It’s an extensible software-hardware system consisting of mobile and desktop applications and a drone, which can be used to deliver first-aid kits, medicines or other necessities. / Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 7
Korea / Team Let IT Bee / Kookmin University, Sangmyung University, Sungkonghoe University, 이화여자대학교 / Let IT Bee is designed to support the bee farming business by aiding farmers and local companies.This app records inspections, treatments and feedings; tracks colony temperament; and records honey harvest, using cloud, Web and mobile platforms. / Windows Azure, Bing, Windows Phone, Windows 8