PECSOnline

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PECSOnline

PECSOnline was a software I made for my individual Bachelor’s Computer Science Degree project.

If you want me to remake it for your use: Direct Contact me via any of my social media accounts (starting your message with:

“Subject: Remake PECSOnline”)

If you can’t see it: https://archive.org/embed/joseph-liu-pecs-online-playthrough

The app was usable on the PC, on phone and tablet, via the internet and a browser app. It had user and child adding/modifying, PECS 1-3 or single symbols and 4-6 or sentence making.

I made 9 categories in PECSOnline, including one personalised items category. It also had First this, then that, which was placing symbols on the First and Then backgrounds.

The personalised items feature: anyone can upload with an image or in the phone or tablet’s case, make from a photo. That personalised item was then either released to everyone on the network of users, or just the personalised item’s creator.

It also had a list of a child’s personalised items, which the user can modify, providing they put in the right passcode. There, the adult could inactivate all of the child’s personalised item or reactivate them. They could also deactivate/reactivate accounts, including in the case of reactivating, put in the old adult user’s passcode to reactivate.

I wrote in HTML, CSS, JavaScript for the mobile symbols and PHP to get all of the symbols, child and adult users data and store in the database.

After watching the video, the client, Becky Stephens and her participants, completed the survey on the impact of the features in PECSOnline and how would they improve.

After concluding that the app was extremely beneficial, my project officer, Fernando Loizedes, published my app onto INTERACT2023, a biennial international conference reflecting on technology, as a poster.

I was amazed that the conference has in fact approved my app as a poster at the presentation. So, on the 1st September, INTERACT2023’s final day, I presented the poster and my work to lots of attendees, who really appreciated my work.

We also made the paper with the poster: READ HERE

Read more about this app by reading ‘Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023: 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference, York, UK, August 28 – September 1, 2023, Proceedings, Part IVAug 2023Pages 544–550’

Or go to https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5_70

Just reference my work if you are using it please.

The poster: PECSOnline poster (Note: I did the research and the writing, but noticed a grammar error, which I did not write or even review before the poster was printed)

And my time at the conference, with Fernando Loizedes: Both of us Me at the conf

Lastly: The dissertation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yH66EAcBsYhlQO7-SleZXsSg8bqMFemU/view?usp=sharing