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This article is the next part in the series of articles about the winners of Imagine Cup Indonesia 2012. Lexipal, created by Antasena team who won the second place in the competition.
Antasena team, which came from University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, is concerned about dyslexia problem experienced by 10% of the population (according to the U.S. Department of Health and Services in 2006). Dyslexia is a learning difficulties associated with language.
They took the name Antasena from a figure in shadow puppet stories that cannot speak very well but actually has a very good heart. So as people with dyslexia, they might have above average intelligence. Some examples of famous names that often mentioned to be having difficulties in learning because of dyslexia are Albert Einstein, Sir Winston Churchill, Tom Cruise, Walt Disney and Lee Kuan Yeuw.
Therefore, Antasena team -which consists of M. Risqi Utama Saputra (team leader and developer, S1 and S2 fasttrack student of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (JTETI) UGM), Kuntoro Adi Nugroho (developer, S1 and S2 fasttrack JTETI UGM). Vina Sectiana (designer, S1 JTETI UGM) and Vremita Desectia (business analyst, student of Roman Literature UGM)- designed an application for early detection of dyslexia problem in children.
The application is called LexiPal. In addition to early detection of symptoms of dyslexia in children, LexiPal application also has a pleasant and sttractive therapy feature for people with dyslexia.
As described in a promotional video on Youtube, Lexipal comes in two versions, the Home Version for patients, and Therapist Version for psychologist or therapist who treat dyslexic patients. The home version only has two main features, namely for the early detection and basic treatment. While the version for Therapis has several other features such as advanced treatment assessment, treatment with gamification ranging from spelling to reading, 3D modeling, Brain Gym to patient data management.
Unfortunately, until this article is written, DailySocial failed to contact Antasena team so we can’t get more information about how far the development of this LexiPal application is. However, if viewed from the award given by the Imagine Cup Indonesia 2012 and video testimonials from therapists who have tried this application, LexiPal seems to have been able to help patients with dyslexia to learn easier and more enjoyable.
Last weekend, id-Mozilla held a meet up event of MozKopdar Bandung, which is the first MozKopdar event held in Bandung. In addition to Bandung, this event was also held in other cities such as Jakarta and Bekasi.
MozKopdar Bandung took venue at Potluck Kitchen starting at 11 AM. This meet up event, as described by Fauzan Alfi – MozReps, was filled by introduction of Mozilla Student Reps as well as other various events such L10n Sprint or translating Firefox browser into local languages namely Bahasa Indonesia and Sundanese. The event was also filled by the announcement of the latest information on various Mozilla projects.
MozKopdar Bandung was also attended by Arky, Community Manager for Localization (L10n) Asia, who was present to help the translation process from the technical side as well as introducing Boot to Gecko (B2G), which is an open source operating system for mobile devices from Mozilla. Other information about B2G can be seen here and here. Moreover, Arky also explained the various processes and essential stages that can be done by those who are interested to help in the Firefox browser translation project.
Once again, I must reveal an ugly truth. After writing about Indonesia having the slowest internet speed among 50 countries surveyed by Google, I must talk about another bad news about Indonesia. Indonesia is ranked fourth in the list of countries that send the most spam. During January to March 2012, from 100 spam spread around the world, 5 of them shipped from Indonesia.
Indonesia’s rank goes up compared to last year’s third quarter. At that time, Indonesia was ranked eighth with contributing percentage of 3.3%.
Last weekend, visitors of Bandung Indah Plaza (BIP) were presented with a display and exhibition of local games as part of Gedebuk – Game Developer Buka-bukaan (Game Developer Reveals).
This event is the result of a collaboration between BIP Gedebuk community and Agate Studio as the initiators of Gedebuk. The event was held on March 17-18, 2012 at Bandung Indah Plaza (BIP).
The agenda includes exhibitions from a couple of local game developers’ work – on display via video presentations and banners on main venue and around the mall, as well as several gaming facilities which can be played by guests; there are card games and board games as well as several mobile and PC games made by Agate. Visitors can also get information about games – the process of game making, especially games made both by Agate as well as other local game developers.
Last Saturday at Concordia Room Sangkuriang Hotel Bandung, over hundreds people interested in the development of IOS platform attended ID-Objective Conference 2012 (IDOC 2012).
The event was organized by ID-ObjectiveC and DailySocial. It’s sponsored by XL and supported by Dycode, Beetlebox, Firefox community, Cititrans and various media partners. This event was able to collect over a hundred participants, mostly developers. They came from various areas such as Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Palembang, Jakarta, Bandung and even Taiwan.
Andri Yadi, President of ID-objectiveC said in his opening presentation that the event is basically from the community and dedicated to the community as well. The event is primarily intended for developers who develop applications in Apple ecosystem, specifically for iOS. For a first-run event, it could be a proof that iOS development attracts many people.
