You can enjoy the art of Peking opera with mobile AR, make music while running, and read news through colors... These are not stories of Arabian Nights but the functions of a mobile APP developed by a university student of the generation after 1995.
Hu Beini, a senior student of Tongji University, majoring in software engineering, inspired by Farewell My Concubine starred by Leslie Cheung she watched more than a decade ago, successfully created a mobile software "Suiyan" to promote the culture of Peking opera. The APP features displaying various makeups and costumes of Peking opera, AR presentation, photo shoots for makeup and other science popularization functions.
"Now a lot of Chinese traditional cultures can be carried forward and promoted by modern means. The reason why we chose to develop this APP is that we hope more young people attach their attention to China's Peking opera art," said Hu Beini.
During the closing ceremony of the 2nd China Collegiate Computing Contest-Mobile APP Innovation Contest, Hu Beini's APP won the special prize of the contest. In addition, Step Beats, the first prize winner, focuses on sports-loving musicians.
The APP can make everyone a musician. Based on personalized running characteristics, ever-changing running speed and stride frequency, the APP helps you create and share your own music.Meanwhile, it also gives music lovers a brand new creation way: "input" ideas and "generate" music by running.
The team leader of Step Beats is Li Chenxiao, a sophomore student from Zhejiang University. All the members of his team are Generation Z-ers - today's youngest group born in 1995 or later.
"Since I had an iPhone during my high school, I have wished that my own product could appear in the Apple store one day, so I learnt a lot of knowledge about programming and software. After entering the university, I continuously pursue my dream and met like-minded partners, and thus my dream was realized," said Li Chenxiao.
Will the development of mobile App affect studies? Zhang Lekai, leader of iAFUN team of Zhejiang University and winner of special prize of the 1st China Collegiate Computing Contest held last year, said that, although the contest would cost them a lot of energy, the contest was correlated with the orientation of his art design research, so his mentor supported him to participate in the contest." After one year's accumulation, our APP has been downloaded 6 million times, and now we are developing the third APP" , said Zhang Lekai.
It is known that the Mobile APP Innovation Contest, officially launched in March this year, was jointly sponsored by Zhejiang University and Apple Inc. and is one of the main contest modules of China Collegiate Computing Contest. The contest attracted more than 5,000 registered students, more than 2,000 participants and the contest area is continuously expanding.
The students from more than 200 colleges and universities submitted 453 works, covering health, medical care, elderly service education, environmental protection, flood prevention and relief, industry, agriculture, security, big data application, administration and other fields.