Enabling Unsophisticated Users to Accurately Identify Chemical Levels from a Computerized Spectrographic Analysis Device

Greenlight Analytical Inc. has developed a highly sophisticated device for spectrographic analysis of a variety of substances. There are various factors that make the application of this analysis complex. First, the results must be able to be used in high stakes situations (e.g. police inspection of suspected contraband, marijuana growers ensuring a product within narrow pharmaceutical limits). In addition, the device must be used in the field, the results of which can lead to multiple variables impacting the analysis and the interpretation of its results.
An example of what can result from these concerns, a Canadian court of law decided that a government inspector could not be relied upon to know and apply the difference between microgram and milligram units. As a result of that decision, evidence in a legal case was disallowed leading to the failed prosecution. For this reason, Greenlight Analytical must rethink the user experience for their device.
In this project, we will create an interface for the device so that users can be highly confident that they both understand the results of a highly advanced chemical analysis and can retrieve those results from permanent storage. TOBECONT’.

Faculty Supervisor:

James Blustein

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Partner:

Greenlight Analytical Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Dalhousie University

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