We are pleased to announce the winners of the first ever Elsevier WebApp Concept Design Competition hosted by the Social Media Lab at the School of Information Management. As part of this competition, which is unique in Canada, over 50 students from four different programs (Library and Information Science, Computer Science, Health Informatics, and Engineering) at Dalhousie, competing in 19 teams, had to develop and present an original idea for a new web application for Elsevier’s new SciVerse search and discovery platform. Some of the submissions will eventually be developed into full fledged apps. And now with no further ado, the winners are listed below.

(More information about the winning applications is available at http://socialmedialab.ca/?p=4168 )

First(1st) Place – $1,500

Application Name: “BlobCube” 

Team Members: Raheleh Makki, Ozge Yeloglu, Axel Soto from the Faculty of Computer Science

Second(2nd) Place – $1,000

Application Name: Snippets

Team Members: Laura Dukowski, Terry LeBlanc, Craig MacEachern from the School of Information Science

Third(3rd) Place – $500

Application Name: MiSTeRy Visualizer

Team Members: Farhan Jamal Khan and Ishan Patel from the Faculty of Computer Science