{"176351":{"#nid":"176351","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computing Students Develop \u0027Bin There\u0027 Recycling App","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThis semester, a group of students in the College of Comuting worked with Tech\u0027s Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling (OSWM\u0026amp;R) to develop a\u0026nbsp;recycling app for Georgia Tech. Kyle Kukshtel, Madhura Bhave and Clay Garrett created \u201cBin\u0026nbsp;There\u201d as part of their senior design course Computing for Good.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETell us about the project you are working on and what the goals are.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0022Bin There\u0022 attempts to increase overall awareness of recycling across campus\u0026nbsp;by challenging students to locate the recycling bins\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech. Each time a user finds a bin and \u0022tags\u0022\u0026nbsp;it via our app, he will gain points.\u0026nbsp;Participants also earn points by answering recycling\u0026nbsp;trivia questions. The goal is to hold a contest every\u0026nbsp;semester where students try to get the highest\u0026nbsp;score in the app by tagging the most bins.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhy did your team decide to work with the\u0026nbsp;OSWM\u0026amp;R?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWe all liked the idea of making an\u0026nbsp;impact right here on campus. We knew that Tech\u0026nbsp;was well recognized for its green initiatives and\u0026nbsp;focus on sustainability, and being able to contribute\u0026nbsp;to those types of initiatives really intrigued us. The\u0026nbsp;solution we came up with was also derived from a\u0026nbsp;relatively open-ended premise, so we got to engage\u0026nbsp;many of the skills we learned at Tech to arrive at an\u0026nbsp;appropriate solution and then implement it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are your team\u2019s accomplishments this semester and what are the future plans for this project?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThis semester we were able to develop the app as well as get some initial tagging of bins done. The\u0026nbsp;app works: Users are able to sign in with their GTID, go to the bins that we have stored in our\u0026nbsp;database and receive points for tagging them. The next step will be to get GPS locations of all the\u0026nbsp;bins on campus (of which there are more than 200) and adhere a code to them, that way students will\u0026nbsp;potentially be able to learn where every bin is on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWas there anything that surprised you while working on this project?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWe were surprised to find out\u0026nbsp;how well it worked! We did a large scale user test among the other students in Computing for Good\u0026nbsp;where they were tasked to find all the bins in either the Klaus Advanced Computing Building or Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, and more than half of the\u0026nbsp;students reported knowing where the bins were after the test was over. This is very much in line with\u0026nbsp;our original goal, so we were all very pleased.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior design project lets students compete by locating recyling bins around campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Senior design project lets students compete by locating recyling bins around campus."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-12-10 12:18:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:22","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"176361":{"id":"176361","type":"image","title":"\u0027Bin There\u0027 Map","body":null,"created":"1449179022","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:43:42","changed":"1475894819","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:59","alt":"\u0027Bin There\u0027 Map","file":{"fid":"195873","name":"screen_shot_2012-12-10_at_11.18.39_am.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2012-12-10_at_11.18.39_am_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2012-12-10_at_11.18.39_am_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":272976,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2012-12-10_at_11.18.39_am_0.png?itok=26I0JWcn"}},"112181":{"id":"112181","type":"image","title":"Recycling Buzz","body":null,"created":"1449178213","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:13","changed":"1475894731","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:31","alt":"Recycling Buzz","file":{"fid":"194148","name":"recyclingbuzz.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/recyclingbuzz_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/recyclingbuzz_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":116486,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/recyclingbuzz_0.jpg?itok=9Gk1eGIT"}}},"media_ids":["176361","112181"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/uJBYi","title":"Bin There (mobile site)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10553","name":"app"},{"id":"7806","name":"computing for good"},{"id":"2356","name":"gaming"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"12901","name":"Office of Solid Waste Management and Recycling"},{"id":"1153","name":"recycling"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cindy.jackson@facilities.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECindy Jackson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of Solid Waste Management and Recycling\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}