Guardian Bridge


About the Project

Guardian Bridge is responsible for linking the ask4Summary module to the web-based educational game MEGA World. MEGA World has a Guardian feature that enables it's user to ask academic related queries and get a response prepared by the Ask4Summary module.

About Us

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Dr. Maiga Chang
Supervisor

Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the school of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada

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Vinayak Sharma
Research Intern

Vinayak Sharma is a undergradute student in the Electronics and Communication engineering school at SMVDU, India

Frequenty Asked Questions

  • Our App has offline functionality. Whenever the device is connected to Wireless network, it can download POI(Point of Interest) data and synchronize all data to the server.

  • The app has two options for collecting users data, (1) Detecting user's location only when the app is open and (2) Detecting the user's location in the background. Users have an options to change this settings in the profile page. Moreover, even if the app is allowed to work in background, the app will not cdetect the device's location if the user's battery is below a critical level.

  • We are strictly against the idea of collecting user sensitive data from the device. We only collect user's POI(Point of Interest) from time to time and send it to the server as an enctypted data, so we don't know what POI the users have been before. Additionally,users can remove any POIs they have been to, permanently at anytime from their device and the server. Users could give background location permission to get accurate results from the recomemndation engine.

  • Yes, Users have an option to wipe out their existence from Profile page, all the data saved in the local device and server will be wiped out.

  • The app has two options for collecting users data, (1) Detecting user's location only when the app is open and (2) Detecting the user's location in the background. Users have an options to change this settings in the profile page

  • The app will never store your location in any form. We use the location coordinates to get Point of Interest, which will be stored locally and in server encrypted form, so we don't know what POI the users have been before.

  • The app will detect the location in background if user has given the permission in profile page. This permission can be revoked by user at any point of time by turning it off in the settings page.

  • Yes, you can configure it in the profile page. Turning off background usage would mean the app will be able to detect location only when user is using it.