Viviane Clay
A Random Collection of Little Side Projects
Apartment Search
This project originated kind of out of necessity and laziness. We were looking for a new appartment and I got tired of scanning endless apartment websites and offers every day. Naturally, as a programmer, I like to automate a task once I have to repeat it more than twice. So I wrote a little program that crawled all the offers in the city of interest on multiple German apartment websites, looked at their statistics and displayed them (colored by prize to size relation) on an interactive map. In the end it took up my entire weekend but for getting a complete overview of the apartment prices and offers around us, it was well worth it!
Increase Your Training Data
This was a little toy weekend project I did together with my hackathon group. After the great hackathon experience, we started to meet for some independent study/coding sessions. In this project, we wrote a small helper function that can help you increase your data set (for example for deep learning/computer vision applications). We use google image reverse search to extract the content in an image and then crawl google images (and potentially other sources) for similar images displaying the same content.
Smart Systems - Visualizing High Dimensional Sensor Data using AR/VR
I worked on this project during my time as a research assistant at the institute for business informatics. The goal of the project was to find intuitive ways to visualize high dimensional (live) sensor data in augmented and virtual reality. To work with big data streams I use ElasticSearch. For gathering live data I worked with a Texas Instruments SensorTag, updated over bluetooth. I set up an experiment inside Unity where three different visualization techniques can be compared in VR. These are: Graph of values over time, sliders showing live values of the sensors, a 3D virtual model displaying different sensor values through different modularities. For example, orientation of the sensor in space is displayed with the help of a virtual object (a house), room temperature in shown by its color, humidity by fog in the virtual control room, brightness through the illumination in the virtual room, speed with the speed of a turning windmil, and so on.
Smart Bandana
A while ago I came up with a concept for a Smart Bandana which is essentially a headband with integrated sensors used to monitor daily activities. This can then be combined with an app to track activities more accurately than with conventional health trackers, build habits, support daily tasks (reminders, ...) and track food and water intake automatically using computer vision. Unfortunately I don't have time to realize such a project at the moment but if anyone is interested I would be happy to collaborate in the future.
iOS App Development
For a long time now I've been wanting to learn app development, mainly because there are certain apps I could really use that I just can't find in the app store. So in 2020 I decided to devote 30 minutes every day in the evening to learning app development. It's been quite the fun experience so far and I can really recommend it! It provides a great balance between being able to fulfill some of my creative ideas and also challange and improve my coding skills. Currently I am working on my first, very basic test app (after the ones that you do in diverse online tutorials). I think I may call it Quaroutine. I came up with it mainly out of my own scientist's desire to track everything and analyze my life and trying to find correlations in how different habits influence my well being. Once it is ready to put in the app store, I will add a link here so stay tuned!
