UGs Won Silver Award and Best Practical Value Award in China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Competition 2014

Final year UGs, LAU Sing Keung, YIU Man Ting, and YUNG Sai Chu, beat 250 teams and won the Silver Award and Best Practical Value Award in the final competition of China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Competition 2014 in Shenzhen in June 2014 with their final year project "Smart Eyes Protector" supervised by Prof Albert CHUNG. It is the first time for a Hong Kong team to be awarded the Best Practical Value Award. They occupied the 1st runner-up position in the first round of the competition in Hong Kong.

"Smart Eye Protector" is an Android application that aims at preventing users from several common eyes diseases such as shortsightedness, strabismus, and so on. An image processing system is combined with a camera service to measure the distance between the screen and user's eyes and record the screen-on time. By using this information obtained from the image processing system, some rules are set to prevent user from using smartphone in improper manner. User will be warned by several formats- screen-block, warning message, and pop-up preview. A usage report is provided to users so that they can understand their habit of using smartphone.

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