DCU Expo 2024 - Final Year Projects

62 96. Connected Care The project focuses on interactions between carers and the families of those receiving care. Fromprevious experiences, it is evident that there is a lack of communication between elderly people in need and their family members. Awritten report is not sufficient as it can’t be accessed remotely. The project aims to address this issue by developing an application that allows approved family members to access daily logs fromanywhere in the world, providing insights into their loved one’s day-to-day life as monitored by the carers. The application functions as a questionnaire with predetermined questions to be answered daily. These questions cover various aspects such as the patient’s eating habits and their location upon arrival and departure within the residence. Student Programme Enterprise Computing Project Area Web Application Project Technology CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Python, SQLite, Django Student Name(s) Darren Hayes  |  SarahMcManus Email darren.hayes25@mail.dcu.ie  |   sarah.mcmanus25@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr SilvanaMacMahon 97. Rapid Fabrication of Polymer Microneedles for Transdermal DrugDelivery Transdermal drug delivery, an innovative approach of delivering drugs to patients or used for biosensing, has gained a substantial amount of attention in recent years. Microneedles is a core part of this technology and it provides a sustainable, painless andminimally invasive way of delivering therapeutic agents. However, there are limitations this method faces especially regarding the permeation of the needles through the skin and the fabrication times. The goal of this project is to discover ways tomore rapidly produce competent and effective microneedles for transdermal drug delivery. For this project I will produce microneedle arrays using twomethods of fabrications and will analyse their time to fabricate, the quality of fabrication and the effectiveness of the microneedles. Student Programme Biomedical Engineering (Year 5) Project Area 3-DModelling, Biomedical Engineering, Microfluidics Project Technology Excel/VB, Solidworks, Microfluidics Student Name(s) Oluwatimilehin Olatunbosun Email oluwatimilehin.olatunbosun3@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Eadaoin Carthy 98. TempoTalk TempoTalk is a conversational chatbot designed to analyse a user’s mood based on their responses and recommend songs to reflect the result of the emotional analysis. Music is proven to have a great effect on our emotional state; it can calm us, upset us, cheer us up, etc. As such, it is a great tool to help us control andmanage our emotions. This project aims to use natural language processing in conjunction with Spotify’s vast music library to help people better manage their moods and explore new genres they wouldn’t normally listen to. This goal is achieved through the use of the Rasa chatbot framework, an emotion evaluation algorithm, and the Spotify developer API, with the use of Django to act as the structure which fits these pieces together. Student Programme Computer Applications Project Area Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Web Application, Human-Computer Interaction, Sentiment Analysis Project Technology CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Python, Machine Learning, Rasa Student Name(s) Octavian Tiolan  |  Nikita Anthony Goryachuk Email octavian.tiolan2@mail.dcu.ie  |   nikita.goryachuk2@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Prof Gareth Jones