U-M Mobile Apps Center

Winners in Fall 2010 U-M Mobile Apps Challenge

The Fall 2010 Mobile Apps Challenge promoted entrepreneurial thinking and encouraged the U-M community to develop innovative mobile applications. U-M students, faculty, and staff entered more than 20 apps in four platform categories: iPhone, Android, Windows, and web applications.

Winning App - HiJack

Ye-sheng Kuo, a Graduate Student Instructor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his colleagues developed HiJack. It's a hardware/software platform for creating cubic-inch sensor peripherals for the mobile phone. HiJack devices harvest power and use bandwidth from the mobile phone's headset interface. The HiJack platform enables the development of a new class of small and inexpensive phone-centric, sensor-based peripherals that support plug-and-play operation.

The winning device has three sensor boards: 1) a simple demo board with temperature/humidity sensors, PIR motion sensor, and potentiometer, 2) a 3-lead EKG sensor, and 3) a basic soil moisture sensor. Potentially, the platform could include a broad range of sensor boards, such as ozone, carbon monoxide, DVM, blood pressure, blood glucose, and more. 

 Contest Results

Winner - Overall App Demo & Description Platform & Category

Ye-sheng Kuo

HiJack

  • Hardware/software platform for creating cubic-inch sensor peripherals for the mobile phone
  • Visit  Project HiJack for more information

iOS

Productivity/Usability/Business Applications/Education
Winner - Android App Demo & Description Platform & Category

Dhineshkumar N Muthu

In collaboration with Adam Kelly and Yumin Pan

Arbor Park

  • Guide to the parking lots on the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor campus
  • Input your permit type and day/time to find an appropriate lot
  • Find handicapped and motorcycle parking
  • Read more or install app

Android

News/Sports/Weather/Travel
 1st Runner-Up App Demo & Description  Platform & Category
Hung Truong

Checkmate for Foursquare

  • Check in automatically to your favorite venues
  • Maintain control by only choosing venues you want to check in to
  • Share auto-check ins with Twitter, Facebook,friends, or check in off the grid
  • Read more or download from iTunes Peview

iOS

Entertainment/Social Networking/Media/Games
 Runners-Up App Demos & Descriptions  Platforms & Categories

Mike Kelley

In collaboration with Nikhil Sharma, Danny Hyon, and Otto Almeyda

friendFM

  • Fill gaps in current social networking sites like Facebook and Foursquare
  • Uses location and some background information about your intereststo suggest new people nearby to meet
  • Meeting only takes place if both parties are interested and available

Android

Entertainment/Social Networking/Media/Games

Chris Augustyniak

In collaboration with Nicholas Peters

PressBox

  • Create digital copies of tickets for various U-M sporting events that can be scanned at the gate
  • Stadium navigation shows where restrooms, concessions, and points of interests are relative to your position
  • Display the rules and regulations for the venue, such as prohibited items

iOS

News/Sports/Weather/Travel
 Alexander Itkan

Tadpole

Micro-event management app that’s a real-time bulletin board for sharing local events and happenings

Android

Entertainment/Social Networking/Media/Games

 Pei-Yao Hung

In collaboration with Ying-Yu Chen

  Emotioner
  • Express your emotions, share them with others at UM, and reflect on yourself
  • Share your emotion with your reason, see emotions of others around you, and compare them visually

Android

Entertainment/Social Networking/Media/Games

 Peter Ludwig

Task Maestro

Easily keep track of the things you need to do

Windows 7

Productivity/Usability/Business Applications/Education

Sponsors

The competition was sponsored by Apple Inc., Computer Science and Engineering - CoE, Information and Technology Services, Google, and Technology Transfer.