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CLASIC Current Projects
Current Projects
Tools for Story-Reading / Telling for students with Special Needs
This cross-cluster, collaborative project aims to develop a mobile prototype application that performs storytelling in an interactive and gamified manner for children with special needs. Unlike commercially available storytelling apps for children, the narratives in this storytelling app reference familiar sights and scenarios in the Singapore context. Backdrops for these scenarios include kopitiams, mom-and-pop shops, and void decks; while story plots include local festivals and visiting grandparents to pay respect to them on these special days, living in Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, or playing at the void deck. A total of 11 stories of varying levels of difficulty were created, with two selected for the prototype.
The storytelling app will be designed with these needs in mind to facilitate both teacher-directed and learner-directed vocabulary learning and assessment. Additionally, the personalised and intelligent app will record and track the learner’s responses to vocabulary questions, as well as diagnose his receptive vocabulary via a digitalised Peabody Picture Vocabulary test
Faculty from the Centre for Professional Communication (CPC), namely, Assoc Prof Radhika Jaidev, Asst Prof Kenneth Ong, Asst Prof Lee Hwee Hoon and Senior Lecturer Erick Tan as well as faculty from the ICT cluster, namely, Asst Prof Muhammad Fauzi Abbas and Asst Prof Alex Qiang have collaborated with speech therapists / interventionists from AWWA School to identify the needs of such children and to design and develop the story plots.
Interactive Carbon Footprint Calculator Prototype for Visitors’ Journey to Mandai Wildlife Reserve (MWR) Parks
In Singapore, Mandai Wildlife Reserves (MWR) is a popular destination for both domestic and international leisure visitors. It is home to wildlife parks including the Singapore Zoo, River Wonders, Night Safari, and Bird Paradise. Given the popularity of MWR parks and the completion of the Mandai Rejuvenation Project, the number of local and international visitors to this destination is expected to grow. While welcoming and offering a satisfactory experience for visitors is important, promoting sustainability in MWR parks is essential.
The project team, led by Assoc Prof Michael Alexander Kruesi (from the Business, Communication and Design Cluster) comprising three SIT faculty and seven SIT students, will investigate a specific current sustainable development effort in MWR parks. This project seeks to design and test-run an interactive carbon footprint calculator prototype to document and examine visitors’ carbon footprint and relevant travel behaviours to and within MWR parks.
Developing Digital Reminder for the Management of Community-Dwelling Individuals at Risk of Pressure Injuries
Pressure injuries (PI) are largely preventable by maintaining the quality and standard of key evidence-based practices such as risk assessment, repositioning, or turning, using pressure-relief devices; maintaining adequate nutrition and moisture; and education on PI prevention. Currently, there are no digital reminders in the market targeting the management of PI prevention.
The project team, led by Assoc Prof Elaine Siow from the Health and Social Sciences Cluster, comprising three SIT faculty and four SIT students, will develop an application software that will remind the caregivers via a tablet device at home. The application software may potentially include other functions to support caregivers at home, e.g., reminders to administer medication. The project will obtain user inputs from key stakeholders, such as caregivers and community nurses on the interface and function of this application before fabricating the first prototype.
Developing and Setting Up an Interactive Health Zone in St Luke's ElderCare’s New Centre at Anchorvale
PSt Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) is a healthcare provider committed to meeting the evolving needs of their patients, clients and caregivers. SLEC delivers a full range of integrated services such as maintenance day care, day rehabilitation programme and dementia care.
The project team, led by Senior Professional Officer Seah Jianxing, comprising four SIT Professional Officers and 50 SIT students, collaborated with SLEC to develop and set up an Interactive Health Zone in the new senior activities centre at Anchorvale, to benefit Active Agers (60 years old and above) through interactive activities. These interactive activities help in guiding residents on self-assessment of key medical vitals (BP, O2, height weight etc.) using the equipment at SLEC, usage of exercise machines, and addressing prevention or management of medical conditions common in older adults.
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Tools for Story-Reading / Telling for students with Special Needs
This cross-cluster, collaborative project aims to develop a mobile prototype application that performs storytelling in an interactive and gamified manner for children with special needs. Unlike commercially available storytelling apps for children, the narratives in this storytelling app reference familiar sights and scenarios in the Singapore context. Backdrops for these scenarios include kopitiams, mom-and-pop shops, and void decks; while story plots include local festivals and visiting grandparents to pay respect to them on these special days, living in Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, or playing at the void deck. A total of 11 stories of varying levels of difficulty were created, with two selected for the prototype.The storytelling app will be designed with these needs in mind to facilitate both teacher-directed and learner-directed vocabulary learning and assessment. Additionally, the personalised and intelligent app will record and track the learner’s responses to vocabulary questions, as well as diagnose his receptive vocabulary via a digitalised Peabody Picture Vocabulary test.
Faculty from the Centre for Professional Communication (CPC), namely, Assoc Prof Radhika Jaidev, Asst Prof Kenneth Ong, Asst Prof Lee Hwee Hoon and Senior Lecturer Erick Tan as well as faculty from the ICT cluster, namely, Asst Prof Muhammad Fauzi Abbas and Asst Prof Alex Qiang have collaborated with speech therapists / interventionists from AWWA School to identify the needs of such children and to design and develop the story plots.