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Research outputs by graduate students and selected Capstone Project Reports by undergraduate students of the Faculty of Information and Communication Studies.

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    Basay National High School Online Registration System
    ( 2014) Estrellado, Jeanalyn G.
    This project research is about the Online Registration System of Basay National High School. The current system problem includes excessive paper consumption, multiple entries of forms, filing difficulties, and handwritten data entry errors. This system was proposed in order to automate the enrollment, organize the students' file automatically and print the ID and students' records directly. Thus, it could save time and effort, as well as increase productivity. The recipient of this project is Basay National High School formerly Basay Municipal High School in 1971, established by the local government headed by its town officials and in coordination with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports (DECS) administrators of the Division of Negros Oriental. The school enrollment is approximately more than 700 students for the last three years. The system is accessible via the internet. The principal, registrar and the teacher-adviser can access the system anywhere provided that there is an internet connection. The editing and adding of data is only limited to the teacher-adviser. The data is printable according to the format needed. The format includes school ID, report card, form 137, good moral and diploma. The program used is XHTML 1.0 Transitional, PHP 5.4.35, CSS, Apache for the webhost and Joomla 3.3.6 for the content management (Kempkens, 214). For the system development process and design studies, the Information Systems Strategic Planning (ISSP) of Strategic Information Systems Development (SISD) course in MIS was used (Khan, 2003). The project assessment scheme involved preliminary tool for strategic planning like the SWOT Analysis. The output of this assessment process is concerned about the relevance, feasibility and sustainability of the project. Basay National High School Online Enrollment System study and project is sponsored by PCAFPD (Peace Corps Alumni Foundation for Philippine Development).
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    The Reception of AI-Driven Art Content Among UPOU College Art Students
    ( 2024) Ballesteros, Orion Descartes D.O
    In recent years, AI art generation tools have become increasingly accessible to the public, gaining significant traction on social media as the usage of these tools become widespread. As the University of the Philippines emphasized the importance of AI in societal development, it is crucial to understand how prospective users perceive this emerging technology. Even with institutional support, the effectiveness of promoting AI technology depends on the backing of its prospective users. UPOU students, in particular, have a distinct perspective due to their education being conducted primarily online. The study sought to examine the unique perspectives of UPOU student artists regarding the rise of AI art generation tools. Specifically, it explored how these students have responded to AI art and its associated tools, including concerns about ethics, employment implications, and the lack of coverage in educational curricula due to the technology's recency. This exploration was conducted through an online survey designed to quantify the varying opinions of UPOU student artists. The study then resulted in mapping out the degrees of acceptability of AI art and AI art generation tools in UPOU art students. Finding out that AI and its generation tools are largely within the 2nd negative degree of Acceptability “under the disagree degree of the Likert scale”. However, the study noted that there was potential to improve this reception. While concerns about ethics and employment were viewed negatively, there was an opportunity to reposition AI art generation tools as a resource. By framing AI art and its tools as complements to, rather than replacements for, artists, a more positive perception can be fostered.
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    The Use of NFTs as Membership IDs for Professional Organizations
    ( 2023) Halim, Raymond R.
    Rationale: Traditional membership registration and renewals are prone to inefficiency and delay caused by the approval process and issuance of physical ID cards. The aim of this project is to digitize membership IDs of members of a professional organization into non-fungible tokens or NFTs to be stored on the blockchain. Certificates can also be issued as NFTs and, together with digital IDs, can be verified as authentic. Problem: Both registration and renewals usually require members to fill up the same form and wait for the card to be distributed. This process is time-consuming, expensive, unsustainable, and is susceptible to replication or tampering. Methodology: The project used the Hyperledger Fabric, an open source private and permissioned blockchain system. The strategy was to use the same programming language (JavaScript) for the client app, the backend api and the smart contract. It also explored the use of InterPlanetary File System or IPFS for the storage of NFT images while only their corresponding content identifiers or CIDs will be stored on the blockchain. Results: Membership IDs and certificates stored as NFTs makes them tamper-proof, enhances their provenance, and are always available for verification. These NFTs are unique and do not have to contain personal identifiable information as compared to those displayed in their physical counterparts. Application/Implication: This project opens up the possibility of having these NFT IDs issued as verifiable credentials in a self-sovereign identity system. Other related professional organizations can join as members of the existing blockchain channel consequently contributing as peer nodes.
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    Home Theater Room Acoustics Design Management System
    ( 2023) Guinabo, Jefraim
    The company beneficiary of this project is in the sound engineering business and builds home theaters with the aim of creating the best listening experience for the audience. Part of this building process is to create a suitable acoustic design for the room being built. This process of creating an acoustically efficient enclosed area is not a new concept and there are systems that already provide the functionalities to design an acoustic room in one way or another. For the stakeholder’s case, existing tools are either difficult to maintain and too granular to use in one place. Even extensive software solutions that offer some of the same functionalities are not suitable for the business because of cost limitations and the absence of some necessary functionalities. Due to this, the company’s current process involves calculations using MS Excel and manual drafting of room drawings to visualize a room’s acoustical properties such as placement of speakers, acoustic panels, and view-optimized listening positions. The goal of this project is to build a web information system to manage Home Theater Room Acoustics Design projects and allow the functionalities to quickly design the acoustical properties of a room in one place. An important feature of this project is the simulation of a room’s acoustic impulse response to generate an audio representation of the room. This provides an approximate estimation of how the room will sound based on the specifications of the room. Furthermore, the system shows a visualization of the sound reflections that help locate acoustic panel placement and the visual mapping of room mode lines that are necessary to locate the low frequency resonance pressure locations to treat room modes that degrade a room’s listening experience. This project incorporates the latest cloud technologies in AWS, a reliable software stack of Django, Django REST Framework, MariaDB and Vue.js.
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    Implementing a Medication Tracking System Using Blockchain Technologies
    ( 2023) Coprada, Mark Johndy C.
    This project aims to address the issue of self-medicating with antibiotics in the healthcare sector. A web application was developed to improve medication therapy compliance and reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance by enabling the dispatching, reporting, and monitoring of medications using blockchain technologies. The system architecture comprises three layers: a blockchain network powered by Hyperledger Fabric, an API gateway built using Golang and the go-zero code generator, and a user interface developed using React with Progressive Web App (PWA) features for enhanced user experience. Integration testing, unit testing and coverage testing were performed, and Google Lighthouse audits yielded positive results. The use of blockchain technologies in the project provides added benefits of security, reliability, availability, and transparency but also increases the complexity and resource requirements of the system.