Past Event 2023
Winners for HACC 2023
MHS HAKK
Cassidy Ibanez
Kyle Bain
Nolan Carlisle
Toby-James Cagaoan
Kyler Ching
Miles Hackney
Courtney Hisamoto
Jourdan Hung
1ST Place High/Middle School
Tyler HI - Affordable Healthcare
Middle or High School Team
Our solution helps uninsured users find affordable healthcare for the services they need. The user is first provided with information on how to use our search engine to find healthcare. For users without insurance, there are affordable healthcare options via Med-QUEST and Federal Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Med-QUEST insurance covers a large variety of procedures and services, so our website provides users with eligibility information. FQHCs serve medically underserved areas on a “sliding fee scale” that makes care more affordable for people with or without insurance. Users can search based on location of insurance type (Med-QUEST or FQHC), healthcare center name, and type of procedure they need. They will be directed to the matching clinic, its address, contact information, and navigation details to reach the center. For the search function, we compiled a novel database with insurance type, specific doctor contact information, clinic contact information, doctor contact information, and procedures provided using several sources. Additionally, to supplement our database, our application takes reviews on if the user’s procedure was covered at a specific clinic, allowing the procedures users can search by to be more specific.
2ND Place High/Middle School, 1ST Place Low/No Code
Tyler HI - Affordable Healthcare
Middle or High School Team
Our solution aims to connect those in need with the services they require. It is essentially a database of healthcare around the islands and the services they provide, under one intuitive and convenient website. We connect patient to caregiver, almost like an Uber for healthcare. Our UI design has been intentionally designed to serve all demographics of tech literacy and guide people through the process of finding care. Our website allows users to easily find the provider that suits their needs, whether that mean it's the cheapest or the most geographically accessible, and directly connecting them to the provider through email. This information is sorted through a user-friendly list-filtering solution. The solution is 100% HIPAA compliant, as we do not store any user data whatsoever.
3RD Place High/Middle School, 3RD Place Low/No Code
UH - ITS Ask Us Challenge
Middle or High School Team
Our solution provides the user with a conversational ux that is able to communicate and answer the user's questions (Only for safety features from the UH ITS website).
2ND Place Low/No Code
HPU CMDR - Large Marine Debris Reporting, Dispatching & Documenting Platform
Solo
Hawaii Pacific University Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) – Large Marine Debris Reporting, Dispatching & Documenting Platform. There were 7 steps for this project: Detect, Report & Document, Remove, Transport, Store, Sort, and Repurpose. The challenge sponsor requested a centralized database and dispatch system. My solution currently has a website that allows the public to submit a marine debris report and view all reports. I will continue to work on this project regardless of team selection and hope to get more database and reporting features done this week.
1ST Place Code
MIOAT - Lahaina Digital Twin Project
College Team
Lahaina Sim is an online shared digital space designed to foster community engagement and facilitate constructive discussions on the revitalization of the city of Lahaina. This innovative tool empowers users to actively participate in the rebuilding dialogue by providing a space where they can upload their own models and create simulations. Through this dynamic interface, individuals can contribute to the ideation process by offering their own models and simulations to facilitate innovative ideas on how to approach the reconstruction of Lahaina. By allowing users to visualize and simulate various ways the city can be rebuilt, LahainaSim serves as a collaborative hub for the collective brainstorming and planning essential for the city's renewal.
2ND Place Code
UH - ITS Ask Us Challenge
College Team
Introducing Hoku (‘Star’ in Hawaiian), an AI chatbot assistant that is programmed to answer users’ ITS related questions. When the user visits the ITS page, they are greeted with a message from Hoku at the bottom right corner of the website. Automatically, the user knows where to ask questions for their ITS related issues. When the user sends their question to Hoku, Hoku responds to the user with a complete and conversational response in seconds. Our solution provides a 24/7 conversational service to users so that they can receive the assistance that they need.
If the user is not satisfied with Hoku’s response to their question, they can press the icon located at the top right corner of Hoku’s answer, and view the ITS articles and websites that Hoku used to supply her answer.
3RD Place Code
HPU CMDR - Large Marine Debris Reporting, Dispatching & Documenting Platform
College Team
Makai, a mobile-friendly marine debris reporting platform designed for the Center for Marine Debris Research. It is intended for use by both the public and organizations responsible for large debris removal. Makai features a centralized database that stores all incoming debris reports in one place, enabling marine debris researchers to accurately monitor types of debris and debris hotspots.
Makai allows the general public to file debris reports through various methods, including an online form modeled after the current official DOBOR form and calling a 24/7 hotline powered by a conversational AI agent via Google’s Dialogflow CX. Both methods send the report to the database and alert nearby debris removal organizations via email about the new report.
HACC 2023 Challenges!
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Technical Tools
What you need to know
Here is a brief summary of the challenges for this year’s event. Use cases, videos and Slides provided below.
University of Hawaii – ITS Ask Us Challenge
This challenge is about creating an application that provides a conversational UX powered by AI, that supports a flexible and intuitive conversational search function to identify and retrieve relevant Ask Us articles and information. This tool would improve access to EXISTING information addressing frequently asked questions, and empowering customers to find the information by asking plain language questions (rather than first having to ask a Help Desk human).
Challenge Sponsor: Garret Yoshimi
Slack Channel: #c-uh-askus
Tyler Hawaii – Affordable Healthcare
This challenge is about creating a resource that helps underinsured or uninsured individuals find and access affordable healthcare in Hawaii. Your solution would help users to find the best options to meet their healthcare needs.
Challenge Sponsor: Nicolas Choy
Slack Channel: c-tyler-healthcare
Hawaii Pacific University Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR) – Large Marine Debris Reporting, Dispatching & Documenting Platform
The Goal of this challenge is to determine the quantity of marine debris washing ashore in Hawaii, the efficiency of removal operations, and improve disposal options so they are more environmentally friendly. A user-friendly platform will increase accuracy & efficiencies of the process of collecting and dealing with the marine debris.
Challenge Sponsors: Jennifer Lynch
Slack Channel: c-hpu-marine-debris
Maui Institute of Art and Technology – Lahaina Digital Twin Project
The Goal of this challenge is to create a web portal that facilitates the civic engagement around how to rebuild Lahaina, Maui, including surveys, forums, sharing design concepts with visual and data models for economic, environmental, etc. analysis.
Challenge Sponsors: Jerry Isdale
Slack Channel: c-mioat-simlahaina
Zero Waste Oahu – Reusable Takeout Program App
This challenge is seeking a solution for tracking and retaining returnable containers from events and vendors. The goal of these containers is to reduce overall waste in circulation, but when they don’t get returned, it prevents the program from being sustainable. The apps need to track the containers and if not returned a fee is collected, this will help keep the program growing and sustainable!
Challenge Sponsors: Nicole Chatterson
Slack Channel: c-zerowaste-reusable
Remember you can also propose an open challenge. Meaning a problem that you or your school or your community is facing and you think there could be a technical solution and you can obtain data that addresses the problem, such as from data.hawaii.gov. Please send your idea to the HACC planning committee and they will let you know if you can work on your idea for this event. All Open Challenges must be approved by the committee to be eligible for prizes. Submit your challenge via DM to @Thelma on the hacc2023.slack.com workspace.