{"id":16139,"date":"2019-10-30T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:29:57","slug":"anti-mosquito-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/30\/anti-mosquito-app","title":{"rendered":"Stopping mosquito-borne diseases APPropriately"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/andrew-mcdonald-191011a-001.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew McDonald\" class=\"wp-image-26055\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andrew McDonald. Marc Studer photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Douglas Esser<br> Andrew McDonald is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/stem\/undergraduate\/majors\/interactive-media-design\">Interactive Media Design<\/a> (IMD) major with a Computer Science &amp; Software Engineering minor. He knows how to design and program apps with technology such as augmented reality (AR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also knows when not to include all the complicated or expensive features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes with technical things, you can focus on the technology too much because it&#8217;s cool,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cPart of my knowledge in tech is knowing when to use something big and when to use something small. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t always have to do something complicated for every problem.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Combating mosquitos globally <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So, AR is not a feature of a game that McDonald helped develop to help fight mosquito-borne diseases. It\u2019s intended to be playable on inexpensive phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/monet-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26056\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to get this in the hands of as many people as possible,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Called mosquito\/NET, the app is a new citizen science game that educates and collects real data about a place. Players start by claiming a territory. 足彩app哪个是正规的y remove standing water, where possible, and identify any mosquito larvae they see. 足彩app哪个是正规的y submit data to a global database: location, the types of mosquitoes and the number of larvae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 overall goal of the game is to gather some of the information scientists need to reduce the rate that mosquitoes can transmit bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause malaria, Zika and other diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 game, available in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/mosquito-net\/id1404050031\">App Store<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.EarthGames.mosnet\">Google Play<\/a>, is continually being upgraded. 足彩app哪个是正规的 latest version allows users to track sightings of birds, animals and other insects, which demonstrates that mosquitoes are part of an ecosystem. Another new feature connects to real world geographical features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Playing science games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/monet-screen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26057\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>mosquito\/NET screen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>足彩app哪个是正规的 mosquito\/Net game is the latest app McDonald has developed under the mentorship of Dargan Frierson, an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the UW in Seattle. 足彩app哪个是正规的y connected through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/earthgames.org\/\">EarthGames<\/a>, a community of researchers, game developers and students who adapt science into games that can teach and inspire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McDonald first designed and programmed a game called 足彩app哪个是正规的 Other World. He put AR overlays on the real-time camera view of the UW campus in Seattle to illustrate potential climate disasters in a fictional world faced with environmental and social problems similar to our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of his AR effects showed Red Square under water and Drumheller Fountain covered in a swarm of locusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love working with Andrew because he\u2019s absolutely fearless with trying out new technology and is a fantastic programmer,\u201d Frierson said. \u201cHe\u2019s also got a great aesthetic and sense of humor, which shine through in his games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mary Gates, CoMotion support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In winter 2019, McDonald received a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/expd.uw.edu\/mge\/apply\/research\/\">Mary Gates scholarship<\/a>&nbsp;for another project he undertook with Frierson. Called Eco-nomy Go, it was going to be another AR app for environmental education. Before it was completed, however, the work transitioned into the mosquito\/NET game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting the research scholarship was instrumental in advancing his project, McDonald said. 足彩app哪个是正规的 competitive scholarship, which supports undergraduate work with UW faculty, provides a $5,000 award disbursed over two quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of people can be great, but the world ties them up. 足彩app哪个是正规的re\u2019s so much required of us already that we can\u2019t explore what we have inside of us,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you get a financial push, it really allows you to express yourself, allows you to be more daring and risky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThose risks find innovations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McDonald participated in the mosquito\/NET team through an Innovation Fund grant from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comotion.uw.edu\/\">CoMotion<\/a>, a part of the UW that expands the university\u2019s impact by connecting research to the economy and society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">足彩app哪个是正规的 ability to impact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>McDonald has a tech background that includes six years in the Navy, most of it as a sonar technician at Oak Harbor. He attended Seattle Central College and the UW in Seattle before choosing the IMD major at the University of Washington Bothell in 2018. 足彩app哪个是正规的 major combines disciplines from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/stem\">School of Science, Technology, Engineering &amp; Mathematics<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\">School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a senior, McDonald is working on still another app. It\u2019s an IMD capstone project called Slant that would be a forum for people to share opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduating in June 2020, McDonald plans to work at a tech company for a couple of years for more experience and then \u201cstart my own thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you have the ability to impact the world positively,\u201d he said, \u201cyou should.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interactive Media Design major Andrew McDonald helped produce mosquito\/NET, a citizen science game app that educates, collects data and fights mosquito-borne diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,200],"tags":[258],"school":[421],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","category-profiles","tag-apps","school-school-of-stem"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":"","link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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