Pre-defined App Suggestions

For participing teams choosing to approach the 3 problem statements via Option 2 (pre-defined app suggestions), here's the list of 10 suggestions with links to more detailed documentations:

SOCIAL & HUMANITY CAUSES

• SHC 1- Bus Arrival App
  Build a mobile-friendly web-app that makes voice announcements on pending bus arrivals based on bus stop location for the visually impaired.

• SHC 2 - Twitter Feed Narration App
  Build a mobile-friendly web-app that narrates trending twitter feeds to help the visually impaired/illiterate.

• SHC 3 - Image Narration App
  Build a mobile-friendly web-app that can take in an image and generates simple sentences/captions voice narration to help the visually impaired.

COVID-19

• COV1 - COVID-19 Case Extraction App
  Build a web-app to identify/extract number of new COVID-19 cases and location name from a news article.

• COV2 - HDB Block COVID-19 Risk Profiling Dashboard
  Build a web-based dashboard that displays the risk profile of HDB blocks based on proximity to nearest cluster and % of high-risk demographics (>60 years old).

• COV3 - HDB Shop Availability Search App
  Build a web-app that allows the user to search for HDB shops that might be open during the circuit breaker period within the vicinity of a particular HDB block.

PRODUCTIVITY

• PRD1 - Voice-enabled E-shopping App
  Build a web-app that allows English OR Chinese voice searches for your preferred online shopping site

• PRD2 - Visual Product Search App
  Build a web-app that can take in any URL, retrieve all images from that webpage, detects the objects on the page, and conducts a reverse image search for other similar images.

• PRD3 - Photo Album Organiser App
  Build a web-app that would automatically categorise / organise your online photo album.

• PRD4 - News Sentiment Analysis App
  Build a web-app that can take in a news article URL, and returns relevant analysis of the article, including sentiment analysis, named entities type and count, etc.

Alternatively, you may want to go HERE for a more detailed table view of all the suggested apps above.

Registration/Booking for Pre-defined App Suggestions

Kindly note that there is a registration (or "booking") process required if you would like to participate using any of the pre-defined app suggestions above. We are limiting up to 2 teams per pre-defined app suggestions to avoid over-subscription of any particular (pre-defined app) suggestions. Teams are encouraged to register early as allocation is on a first-come-first-served basis.

Registration form HERE

Videos Tutorials

For those of you that missed the pre-hackathon briefing and platform walkthrough, you may view the video recording here.

Github Repositories

All participating teams would need to set up their our Github repositories for their team development work. These Github repositories will have to be shared with us as part of your final submission (see Submission Guide).

Support Team

Throughout this hackathon, you might want to reach out to our friendly Sentient.io team members if you have any specific questions:

• Zi Jian (Professional Services) for questions relating to app development
• KT (Science & Research) for questions relating to Voice, NLP and Computer Vision microservices
• Priya (Engineering) for questions relating to Data and Utility microservices and promo credits
• Wayne (Product Development) for questions relating to usage of the platform

You can reach out to them via email or the Slack support channel. (PREFERRED)

Other Useful Information

• Ideation / Designing / Protoyping - If you need some suggestions on how to kickstart the ideation/brain-storming process with your team, here's a useful sample template from IDEO to get you started.

• Choice of Programming Languages - While we do not restrict participants to any specific programming languages, we do find that there are a lot more helpful libraries and frameworks developed in Python.