A group of 天美影视传媒 engineering students are winners of the 2014 , a competition that awards $25,000 per team to student-led groups聽at 10 universities to fund projects that help build sustainable communities.
The UW team’s project is , which integrates with the app and provides specific information on location, safety features and stop closures for each bus stop in King County. OneBusAway was developed at the UW and uses real-time data to track when your bus is actually going to arrive.
The UW computer science and engineering team 鈥� Cynthia Bennett, Caitlin Bonnar, Megan Campbell and faculty adviser 鈥� is聽using the funding to continue developing StopInfo as an accessibility tool for blind and low-vision bus riders. They are interviewing people who could help make it better, including bus drivers, orientation and mobility instructors and blind users after they ran an showing the program helps support independent and safe travel by blind riders.
The students hope more riders will enter information for the bus stops they use regularly. The program improves as more users populate it with information. It is currently available on the iPhone OneBusAway app and the team hopes to expand it to the other OneBusAway apps in the future.
To use StopInfo on an聽iPhone, press the “?” logo when you are looking at arrival information for a particular stop.
The yearly competition is put on by Ford Motor Co.
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