Computer Science Students Develop Smartphone Apps
From: The Crimson White (AL) - 07/20/2011
By: Jasmine Cannon 

University of Alabama students are creating smartphone applications for use
by people with health issues or physical disabilities. Professor Edward
Sazonov is helping two students develop Diet Diary, an application related to
physical health. "The application that we are developing will be able to
detect food intake, compute caloric content of the meal, and keep track of
daily food intake," Sazonov says. "We use shoe-based sensors that talk to a
cell phone to recognize what the person is doing - for example, sitting,
standing, or walking - at any given moment of time." The shoe sensors also
can be used to predict caloric energy expenditure, which can be combined with
a food intake monitor to track diet and physical activity for body weight
management. Alabama professor Patricia Wood has been working with students on
an application for people with type 2 diabetes. The app has three components
- a reminder system, Diabetes Dictionary, and an interactive DVD. Meanwhile,
four students are working on Digital Eyes, an application designed to assist
those who are visually impaired or blind navigate buildings by providing
information about room locations with an automated voice.  

Read the entire article at:
http://cw.ua.edu/2011/07/20/computer-science-students-develop-smartphone-apps/

Links:
Edward Sazonov 
http://people.clarkson.edu/~esazonov/

SNAapps4Kids
http://snapps4kids.com/

Diet Diary Application for Android
Kyle Redding

Diabetes Self-Management Application for iPod
Michael Robson

Digital Eyes Application for Windows Phone 7