IUG graduate, Tamer Jarada, from the Faculty of Engineering at IUG, represented the Palestinian students when the Team Sano from the University of Calgary took home the KFC Russia award at Microsoft Imagine Cup worldwide finals. Their project featured at the Kentucky Fried Chicken flagship Store in Moscow.
Eighty-seven student teams from 71 countries competed in the Worldwide Finals after winning local and online competitions around the world. Microsoft has awarded cash and other prizes valued at more than $1 million throughout the yearlong Imagine Cup competition, including awards for the winning teams at the Worldwide Finals event this week.
SANO is an interactive system that keeps track of and monitors people’s health indicators while they are heavily using the computer. When SANO decides the user needs to take a break, it notifies the user that it is exercise time! A 3D virtual trainer appears on the screen and asks the user to mimic the movements so office workers can improve their health. SANO is an expandable system that uses the Kinect for exercise recognition. Users can even make their own exercises using SANO’s exercise builder software and share them with other users.
