Human Factors

The emergence and spread of infectious diseases, like COVID-19, are on the rise. Can you identify patterns between population density and COVID-19 cases and identify factors that could help predict hotspots of disease spread?

The Infection Bubble

Summary

Our project deals with providing the mass with readily accessible information on the next hotspot for an outbreak, it alerts the people in a potentially hazardous area and provides them with tips and guidelines on how to prevent contamination and remain healthy through the isolation process. It's a website that provides people with instant facts and numbers and illustrations that help people understand the severity of the issue. Its features help people understand the risk and manage it and them

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project uses data provided by NASA and others and analysed by our team members to predict the next potential burst of the"Infection Bubble". It helps people acknowledge the threats and provides them with guidelines that can assist them in staying unaffected. It basically paints a lucid picture using graphs and satellite images compiled by our team members to anticipate the next possible infection bubble and help people prepare better for it. It uses factors like weather conditions, SDOH, population density and more to pinpoint vulnerable areas.

How We Developed This Project

Our team was inspired by plague.inc and the data and guidelines WHO provides on its website, our project attempts to fix some of the shortcomings of the website the organization hosts and makes the information more accessible which helps people who are less familiar with websites and technology in general prepare better. As mentioned earlier our team used the data provided by open data to precisely identify the locations, age groups, economic groups and more who are indisputably at a higher risk of infection. In addition to the data and resources provided, we used porkbun to make the actual domain. We had hoped on making the website more spectacular and more user friendly but due to the short amount of time we had, we couldn't execute most of our vision.  We also planned on using AI to analyse and update the data automatically when new data is provided but since we're all high school graduates who are not experts on the field we couldn't implement it.

Project Demo

Here's the link to the screenshot of  our website:

https://imgur.com/a/7yAGgCo

Data & Resources
Tags
#riskmanagement, #easyinformation, #ArtificialIntelligence, #humanfactors
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.