eecs 441 team jam xchange final pres
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xChangeEECS 441
Team JAM
Jeremy OuilletteAli Khalil
Michael Bader
11 April 2012
Agenda1. What is the Pain?2. How does xChange solve the pain?3. Demonstration4. What did xChange teach us?5. What features does xChange have?6. What are our next steps?7. Summary/Conclusion
What is the Pain?
Have a handful of coins but don’t know their worth
Use Cases:1. Travelling to new
countries2. Wanting to count coins
without actually counting3. Young children learning
how to count
How does xChange solve the Pain?
What it does: 1. Take a picture of coins
with a smartphone camera
2. xChange adds up the total value of the coins
3. Convert coins to other currencies
Agenda1. What is the Pain?2. How does xChange solve the pain?3. Demonstration4. What did xChange teach us?5. What features does xChange have?6. What are our next steps?7. Summary/Conclusion
1. Snap picture of coins
2. See the results
3. Convert the Currency
What did xChange teach us?We learned that:
1. Image Recognition is HARD
2. We could have gotten more done if we had prior mobile programming experience
3. Three person teams are very effective
4. We need to create features users want instead of features we think are cool
What features does xChange have?Feature xChange Coin Counting
ApplicationsCurrency Converters
Converts Currency
Add individual coins to get total
Count and sum coins by taking a picture
What are the next steps?
1. Already Submitted to Android Market on 09 Apr 12
2. Fine tune image recognition in bad lighting
3. Add image recognition for other currencies
4. Expand xChange technology to other disciplines (eg. education)
Summary/Conclusion
Xchange
1. Count coins without actually counting!
2. All-in-one application to count and convert
3. Has potential in education as well
The Team
1. Had a lot of fun learning mobile
2. Could have done more if we knew Android and iPhone platform
3. Mobile is the future!
Thank you!