About the challenge
MindHack is a multi-day event that invites undergraduate students to a hackathon-style event where they work together to build projects related to one of our challenges (Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Language Cognition, or Social Neuropsychology).
At the end of the 3 day period, students will submit their projects for judging and feedback where upon a winner will be chosen for each category. During the event, students will be able to attend seminars hosted by senior students/graduate students where they can be exposed to content that can enrich their learning experience. MindHack's ultimate goal is to invest in the growth of students of Cognitive Science and related fields and their ability to understand, transform, and utilize research.
Get started
There are 4 categories that are under challenge, you may mix or match any of the below:
Human-Computer Interaction
- Choose an interface, identify usability concerns, and design a mock-up or functional prototype that improves upon usability.
Language Cognition (choose any of the following)
- Build or design a prototype of a model or app that can aid in language learning or speech pathology.
- Build or design a prototype of a model or app that uses research from Natural-Language Processing to solve a problem.
Artificial Intelligence (choose any of the following)
- Use a model or design a model to perform a classification task.
- Build an AI model to solve any type of problem of your choosing within the ARC-AGI database.
- Build your own model (there will be a Saturday workshop on this).
Social Neuropsychology
- Build an anti-doomscroll social media app that promotes better cognitive health for its users.
Requirements
What to Build
Minimum Requirements
- Deliverable of some kind (figma mock-up, coded prototype, or abstract)
- Presentation
- We recommend having some kind of functional prototype, it can be anything you want.
Some Pointers
- We recommend using python as the language of choice for this hackathon, however you can use another language if you want.
- If you are not building an app or model, you may write a paper abstract as well for a research proposal. This is OK.
What to Submit
If you are building a model, you should submit:
- Your code in the form of a GitHub respository.
- Any research you used (optional; if you do, you will score higher).
If you are making a figma-mockup, you should submit:
- The mock-up itself on devpost.
You must submit all of your presentation materials as much as possible.
Prizes
Human-Computer Interaction Award
Artificial Intelligence Award
Language Cognition Award
Social Neuropsychological Award
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Mary Alexandria Kelly
Dr.
Kasia Muldner
Dr.
Nadine Charanek
Ms.
Nadine Moacdieh
Dr.
Nadiya Slobodenyuk
Dr.
Judging Criteria
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Presentation
Team effectively presented, demonstrated, or otherwise communicated their projects goals, feature, and design. -
Execution
Team was able to successfully finish their project and create an end deliverable. -
Technical Correctness
Project was informed by science and, if necessary, is well cited. Additionally, if the project utilized tooling of some kind, tools were used to the best of their abilities (i.e., figma, python, WEKA, etc.). -
Relevance
Project is relevant to the study of the brain, mind, AI, HCI, etc. Anything related to cognition. Even if a project is not relevant to a certain category as long as it is related to minds and thinking it is fine. -
Problem-Solving
Team was able to overcome challenges and solve problems related to their project. Or if there were no problems/in addition to, team expands to future implication of their project.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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