In the clinic, blood or cell samples from the ground are taken with a glass slide and sent to the central hospital for scanning and analysis using AI software. For bigger countries like China and India, the live samples may be damaged during the transfer. The time & cost of transfer is also high. Phaos Technology aims to develop a low-cost glass slide scanner that is less than S$15,000 for clinics in remote areas. Once the clinics are empowered with the scanner, they scan the glass slide on the ground and send the digital images to the central hospital. There will be no more lost or damaged samples. This will cut down logistic issues and level up the accuracy of data analysis.

Therefore, we are looking to develop a user-friendly interface for our equipment for application projects. Candidates will be exposed to both frontend and backend programming. Frontend development in UI development. Backend development in functionality including control of machinery to acquire images followed by image processing. In general, we will face 2 problems for application-based development:

1. Look, feel and practicability of the UI. For example,

• What are the colour tones to use, icon shape, and organisation of the icon
• How to make the overall UI user-friendly

This requires knowledge in both design and engineering.

2. Understand end-user needs and develop tools to address the needs of customers in the best approach. There is always a gap between customers' wants against what programmers developed. Closing up the gap with constant communication with customers and understanding the full potential of what the tools can do is a challenge faced by ground programmers.