Samantha is from Oahu, Hawaii, where she graduated from Leilehua High School in 2022. She currently attends the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Her interests lie primarily in UX/UI design, human-computer interaction, and web development. She is passionate about learning how humans interact with technology and how these interactions can be enhanced to produce optimal usability through effective design choices. Samantha is also a STEM Scholar’s Program member and conducts research with the Instructional Design and Educational Assessment (IDEA) Research Lab. In the future, she hopes to grow her passion for digital design and influence others through her work in Computer Science.
Home Island: Oahu
High School: Leilehua High School
Institution when accepted: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Project Site: Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope: NSO/DKIST, Pukalani, Maui
Mentor: David Morris
Project Title: Science Operations Specialist Group Daily Report Form Upgrade
Abstract:
The National Solar Observatory’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) is dedicated to studying the sun’s magnetic fields and dynamic behavior. These discoveries are made possible with the help of the Science Operations Specialist (SOS) Group, who are responsible for operating DKIST and documenting hundreds of operations activities using the SOS Daily Activity Report Form. Although the current form is effective, it necessitates significant manual entries, posing efficiency challenges for the timely logging of observational data by the SOS Group. This project aims to ensure efficient logging of daytime solar activities and operations by upgrading the SOS Daily Report Form through two primary phases. The first phase focuses on developing a prototype toolkit and graphical user interface (GUI) for the next generation DKIST Daily Activity Report Form. After determining whether native or web-based applications would be best for improving the form’s current user interface, the GUI prototype was decided to be built and tested using Confiforms for Atlassian Confluence. The second phase focuses on auto-populating log information using an observing event message queue provided by DKIST’s high-level software group. Integration of this phase involves enabling communication between the GUI prototype and a DSSC machine using RabbitMQ, a message-queuing broker software. This process will run on Oracle VirtualBox using the Ubuntu Linux operating system and coded in Java. Improving the SOS Daily Activity Report Form will help facilitate the redesign and development of a modern GUI capable of automating and structuring operations activities captured by DKIST in a more efficient manner.