Category: Angela’s Status Report

This week, I was able to re-design our front-end as well as figure out the mobile vs. desktop versions. Here is a prelim screenshop of the desktop design: 

and it zooms in and out a lot better than before. This is already implemented and included in the final website.

I was able to change the theme and improve the mapping a lot more while maintaining the integrity of the sensors.

 

The mobile version would look more like this: 

which is more of a mockup but not hard to implement for this week.

We are also, as a group, making sure our final presentation is sound before Monday, including all our last minute changes.

This week, I spent the first half working mostly on the ethics assignment. However, due to illness related difficulties, I was unable to make it to the ethics lecture on Wednesday. From the rundown I got from my groupmates, I was able to agree with their proposed ethical concerns on our project, which was mostly centered around the user’s privacy as well as potential use cases that are outside of our planned use-case scenarios. This would include having a person with ill intent planning to use the number of students in the UC for non-intended purposes. Users also cannot opt out of having their occupancy tracked, even if it’s anonymous.

I also made advancements with developing with Django. Currently, I have the web app set up on my local machine with skeletal code, using a python virtual environment.

This week, I was feeling really sick up until Friday night and was unable to stay up enough to make significant progress. However, I was able to finalize plans for frontend to make it a little bit more accessible and streamlined.

Next plans are to fully integrate Django and MySQL with AWS and finish the integration process.

The beginning of this week was mostly spent on the design review and the design review report. The AWS credits were not rewarded until later in the week, so I used some time to review the hardware aspects of the project, since I am more software focused. I also made very minor changes to the first panel of the UI. This was just to show the baseline statistics of the area of the UC that’s displayed.

Now that I have access to the AWS credits, I should be able to start connecting a Django app to a MySQL database. I also want to finalize the UI and study more on how to make the UI more aesthetically pleasing and accessible. Currently, my progress is on schedule, as I have plenty of time to develop this UI. I hope to show a more refined UI as well as show that I have done AWS work.