PathoPal

Pathopal is an app and website created with the goal to provide awareness and education to people with disorders that affect facial and emotional recognition.

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What it does

In the beginning portion of the development of our project, we planned to create a multi-platform application that would specifically target helping people with difficulty in being able to recognize faces or emotions. Our original idea was to create an app that takes a picture and sends it to a server which contains an algorithm to detect the emotion of the person in the picture. This could be used to assist people with disorders such as Alexithymia by teaching them tactics to better recognize emotions.

How we built it

We split up and each tackled a different aspect of the project. Finn tackled the facial recognition API and did all the Python programming that was intended to be the core of our design. Clayton was in charge of the website and web host that would receive and send information between the app and facial recognition program. Meanwhile, Andrew and Alyssa did the Android Studio and app building.

Challenges we faced

One of the biggest challenges we faced early on was getting the camera to work in our app as none of us had prior experience with it, but after 5 grueling hours Alyssa managed to have a breakthrough and we now understand how to use the camera in an android app. By far the biggest challenge we faced was getting everything to integrate with each other. While unfortunately due to our limited time we couldn't get everything integrated how we wanted today, we hope to eventually get this working with the knowledge we've gained from this experience.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

By far the thing we are the proudest of would have to be the image recognition framework, closely followed by the camera and website as this was each of our first times doing our respective part.

What we learned

We all learned many new skills including things not directly related to the programming, such as time management as well as team communication. On top of that, we all learned how to do many things that will be used for PathoPal moving forward as well as stuff that will be applicable for future projects.

What's next for PathoPal

Moving forward we want to get everything fully integrated as well as adding more features and making everything look way nicer.

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