Awards & Nominations
Alwins has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Hey! What Are You Looking At?
Alwins looking for better manage in use of data
Summary
The project "Alwins looking for better manage of data usage" has as a main objective to create a much more friendly and fun way to share images provided by NASA.Using AR a large application was carried out in which a room is simulated and in the moment when we enter the room it shows multiple images that were captured by HEASARC.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We develop an app that allows the user to enjoy the content, information, photographs etc. that NASA gives us on its page, this app is very easy to use and interactive, the user will feel that it is in space.
As a team We are mainly focused on a way to looking for a better design in the implemented data, this way people feel more comfortable using the data this is why we develop an augmented reality application that can show the images of some stars or planets.
This is really important because the app can bring more people closer to knowing about this area; without requiring individuals to have extraordinary knowledge, we simply want to get more users interested in astronomy and that is the main goal to our app (show everything that space offers and make it clear that apps are not only meaningless entertainment like social media), but you can make the most of it super important, rewarding and interesting.
Being a lot of data, we choose to download some of the images related to it, in this way we hope to make more people have greater access to information and make more people interested in this type of data and realize that it is not as boring as it might seem.
How We Developed This Project
To make this project happen, a new application is requiered, we took the task of doing it directly in Unity with CShark scripts and Android development APIs that generated an application and we also used Vuforia, which was in charge of implementing the augmented reality camera.
Some of the problems we faced was the implementation of the camera; since we could not detect the environment that was needed for the generation of a portal that was the one that could show those images, when we were finally able to fix that great problem that we encountered when performing our project, all that remained was to be fixed for the final delivery of it.
Our team was inspired by being able to use tools, data, images, photos, algorithms that are clearly used only by scientists around the globe, the thrill of feeling part of something that may not change everyone in a second but if you start with one part of it and increase, clearly another thing that prompted us to continue with this project is the satisfaction of being able to give them a more comfortable and easy-to-use option in their day to day life, that's why we focus on the use of mobile tools. One of the group´s achievements is that we used programming tools that some of our peers didn't know how to use, we had to support each other, and everything went better than planned.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
As a fundamental part of our project, the images provided from the Aladin website were used within the section, other resources along with those provided on the Skyview website
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bAGmSKykwzWSngEqqJD2qc2oS8_DF4Qe?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/doc/#API
http://darts.isas.jaxa.jp/astro/akari/cas/tools/explore/obj.php
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/