HINT

Project Details

HINT is a project that aims to make notification tracking and task learning fun and interactive. With all the “noise” in the modern-day world, notification tracking has become one of technology’s hottest commodities. HINT hosts such notification tracking with the twist of being interactive with the user, primarily children learning chores and organizational tasks. The system will interact with the user in ways that stimulate more of the senses than traditional notification tracking. Sight, touch, and hearing will be triggered beyond the typical stimulation level to produce a more natural response from the user, as if another person is telling them what to do. Such interaction with the senses will make the response more rapid, effective, and pleasant than the trained automatic response of the average notification system on a computer or handheld device. HINT allows the user to set up notifications for a room in the house to trigger alerts at specific times. The project seeks to eliminate, or at least reduce, notification bypassing. This is accomplished by using a sensor module and a small wearable device around the home.

System Block Diagram

Documentation

Conference Paper

Critical Design Review

Senior Design I Report

Senior Design II Report

Final Presentation

Team Members

Mannuel Cortes-Irizzary

is graduating with an Electrical Engineering degree and a Computer Science minor from UCF. He interned for three years with Lockheed Martin Reliability and Electrical Engineering groups. His interests are digital hardware designs and their applications in consumer electronics, like the IoT. He enjoys working with microprocessors, FPGAs, and wireless technologies. He plans on working with Harris Corporation’s digital design group and pursuing his master’s degree in EE with the company.

Maria-Camila Nunez

is graduating with an Electrical Engineering degree from UCF. She interned for 16 months within Lockheed Martin’s Testability and Electrical Engineering departments. Her interests are in analog hardware design and system integration and test. She enjoys working on power systems, motor control solutions and troubleshooting electronic hardware. She currently plans on working with Lockheed Martin full-time post-graduation as an analog hardware design engineer and also plans to pursue her Masters in Electrical Engineering

Ramon Jimenez

is graduating with an Electrical Engineering degree from UCF. He interned for 18 months with Lockheed Martin Systems Engineering and for 4 months at Texas Instruments during a summer internship in Product Marketing and His interests include analog Applications design, consumer electronics, wireless communication technologies, video games, and food. He currently plans on working for Texas Instruments as a Field Applications Engineer post-graduation and will pursue graduate school for his Master in Business administration.