The main idea that our project based on is to control the spreading of the disease by being informed with human activities and movements. Our app will collect data(just location data) from the users by using The Global Positioning System (GPS) (the app will request permission from the user) to apply these data in two things, firstly to alert the users when they enter an infected area or interact with an infected person, finally to analyze it and illustrate the most infected cities by identifying all places that the infected person passed in even before he knows that he is infected. Also, we will be able to predict hotspots of disease spread by analyzing the most infected areas and other data affects the infectiousness either environmental as weather or human-made as lock down and the airline travel limitations.
Furthermore, our website (that is connected with our app by the same data set) gives the users clear information about populations in each city and illustrate to the users the most infected areas, by connecting these pieces of information, so the user will be able to easily identify patterns between population density and COVID-19 cases.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fDmoCI3-FICvh2rMMnE4A0TyWpH30djU?usp=sharing
The first thing we decided to do for the challenge was to know more information about the covid19, so we did a lot of researches, and concluded very two important points from theses researches, first that the realizing about the virus from humans is very important to avoid it, so as a result, we have to give the users easy access to the data he needs, as we take a lot of time to collect the data we need because the websites were very limited. Second, we noticed the impact of the population on the number of cases. These two conclusions helped us to determine the challenge we want to work on, which is the human factors. then we decided to collect all published data our own conclusions from the data we collected from users as the most infected places in one website with very simple accessing to satisfy the user’s needs. The inclusiveness of our project is the main aim that inspires us with the team name (Brigitte), as our project will be like a healer to the people in all their stages, as it will give the users the ways to avoid being infected with covid19, alert them if they were in infected place, give them the nearest hospitals to check is they are infected or not, give them the nearest and the available isolation establishments and hospitals to go in the case of the positive result, and give the users the correct ways to the home isolation( if there is no available isolation establishments and hospitals).
We used three strategies in developing our project, the first one was sharing ideas from each member and being discussed and developed by all the members, second to pretend as the users to determine what will they use and what they need to avoid covid19, third we saw the related questions to covid19 that is frequently asked on social media especially the questions that may affect the human’s behaviors and by the way the spreading of covid19, then we used the data we collected to provide the users with the answer of these questions in our simple way.
A big part of our project depends mainly on the data we collected by the GPS which is a satellite-based navigation system, another part of our project goal to identify factors that affect the spreading of covid19 as population or weather patterns which can be predicted by satellites too, also the entire project is set up by software system, the data that helped us to set up that software was taken from space app agency data, as some of the codes we used are similar to NASA mobile applications codes that its data are available on the official website of NASA.
We used flutter language in order to make our mobile application (0%Risk app), and we used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript languages to build our entire website.
The first problem that faces our team was the difficulty of collecting data, as there were many limited and contradictory web sites, but fortunately, that problem was a very inspiring one as it was one of the things that inspire us to do our website to be like as it appears now. Also because of short of time, we faced many problems in web designing and the app programming, as not all of our team members are professional in programming neither web designing, but we solved that problem by classifying the tasks, and giving each member the part which he\she is professional at, solving that problem in that way was on of the important reasons that help us to achieve our achievements, as we make a successful mobile application, very needful website, and inspiring video in just two days! , and the most worthy achievement to us is we accomplished our all goals by using only google and the Global Positioning System (GPS).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBBExIrAe0Q