CS 491/492: Senior Design Project

Note: descriptions are copied from student submissions directly.

Fall 2013

• Supervisor:
• Daycept: Daycept is a mobile and social platform. It has a "concept based" principle. Users will share their opinions by brief writings, photos or links (like YouTube) about a pre-determined concept. Daycept will have 3 concepts per day  for 8 hours . Concepts can change momentarily depending on sudden and trending events. Users won't be able to see the content after every concept is expired because feed will be cleared periodically for new concepts. Every user will have a profile page and be able to "up" other user's shares about the current concept. This platform will be a good place to take the pulse of various concepts' effect on people.
  
• My Socio Diary: Our Project is going to be a mobile application for Android users. With this application we will provide a diary and a social networking platform for users. In diary, users can share the important things that they have done on the current day with their photos. Thus, users can bring back their old memories and share nice moments. In addition to, mobile application, web site of our program will be in use for users to access from computers.
  
• Smart-Vote: The project is an electronic voting system for smartphones which will allow users to vote on issues that have been put to vote. The main emphasis of this project is to ensure security and privacy while providing uniqueness, i.e., even the people who can access the database of the system should not be able to see the votes of individual users and the users should be able to vote only once. The initial target user group of this project is Bilkent University members. This project can be used to put lecture related issues to vote by instructors, get feedback from students about the club activities by student clubs or open any Bilkent related issue to discussion by the warden or students. However, as the project develops and becomes mature enough, it is aimed to present this project to government institutions so that the project can be used for country-wide or local referendums. 
  
• Betcha: “Betcha!” is a mobile application which people can mainly interact with their friends by sharing their bets which is about anything they want. Users can also publish their bets by using other social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and invite them in the joyful world of "Betcha!".
• CMPS101: CMPS 101 [abbreviation of CAMPUS 101] is a mobile application that supports the orientation of first-year college students and Erasmus exchange students along with the short time visitors at the Bilkent University. The application provides several features to help the newcomer students to cope with university life. CMPS101 includes information about transportation, sports and social activities, cafes&restaurants and it helps users to plan their time effectively.
  
• Jury Member:
• Plebiscite
• Haberin Olsun
• Techno Analyzer
• SOme

Spring 2013

• Jury Member:
• AcilKan: In the social media, we everyday see the blood need announcements very frequently. AcilKan is an application that simplifies this process. The people who need blood will be able to make an announcement using the application, and the other users who are close to the hospital will be informed by a notification, if their blood type are matching with the patient. In addition to this, the users who want to donate blood will be able to see the closest point they can donate blood. AcilKan will be an Android application and will be integrated to Twitter to search tweets with that purpose automatically.

Fall 2012

• Supervisor:
• chkDNA: Chk-DNA is a multi platform desktop application that analyzes files in a format called VCF (Variant Call Format) that contain genetic variation an individual compared to the reference genome. After parsing the file, annotation of these genetic variants such as their relation to known phenotypes,   prediction of their effects in gene expression and regulation, and drug-gene interactions are displayed. Furthermore haplogroup analysis  is performed to infer ancestry. The purpose of this project is to integrate various kinds of genetic information analyses into a single program. In addition, the smoothness of the user interface will improve the ease of use. It also generates a report of the results at the end of the analysis.