{"id":110,"date":"2016-08-30T21:52:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/?p=110"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:44:04","slug":"project-ideas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/project-ideas-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Idea 1 (Intelligent Personal Assistant for Medicine):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to build a software (potentially mobile application) that acts as an intelligent personal assistant for medical purpose. The inspiration comes from modern programs like Siri, but instead of being a general purpose, I want it to have a narrower focus (i.e. medicine). While I am still working on the details, I envision that you can talk to the app about various things such as diseases, medicines, hospitals and so on. I want the communication style to be as human-like as possible. The app will also do other things like remind you to take your medicine, tell you when it&#8217;s time to go for a regular check-up and so on. I anticipate integrating other 3rd party web services to make some of these functionalities possible. I am also expecting to go through the works of CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) among other resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idea 2 (Optimal Character Recognition):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The process of OCR of converting images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text has always been something I have been interested\/curious about. I want to research on how this process is done and hopefully recreate the technology. For a more personalized experience, I will try to learn the particular user&#8217;s handwriting style better through the app and then hopefully have a higher degree of recognition accuracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idea 3 (Dissecting\/Adding functionality to a machine):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this idea seems increasingly less likely, I thought I would make a note of this regardless. Having had some interest in working with hardware\/circuits, I wanted to open up a machine, learn more about the internal components\/circuits. Along with that, I also wanted to add some other piece of hardware and add functionality to the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idea 1 (Intelligent Personal Assistant for Medicine): I want to build a software (potentially mobile application) that acts as an intelligent personal assistant for medical purpose. The inspiration comes from modern programs like Siri, but instead of being a general purpose, I want it to have a narrower focus (i.e. medicine). While I am still &#8230; <a title=\"Project Ideas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/project-ideas-4\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Project Ideas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-82","category-ashutosh","category-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}