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?

Identification of critical points of spread of disease or virus worldwide through a "ViruSearch" app

Summary

VirusSearch is an application for Android that provides updated information on the areas of greatest contagion of a specific virus to all its users around the world, focusing on the Covid-19 for its situation and the key points to highlight are: the identification of sectors of danger through a heat map according to the level of risk, official world statistical information, also the development of a digital self-test through a form carried out by users to determine if they carry the virus, which can be modified by changes that present in your state of health.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project will address the challenge of "Human Factor", since an application will be awarded that will allow various users worldwide to identify the critical points of spread of a specific virus, in this case Covid-19 in specific sectors, identifying the density of the affected population. This information will be fed by updates from the same users, as well as the selected data from the official entities in charge of each country, the request for this application is the user who can find anywhere that can be informed to protect their health.

How We Developed This Project

1. Creation and selection of the idea, due to the impact of the Covid-19 virus and its global impact, this being the main reason for developing the proposal for this application, whose request is to keep users informed and updated that make use of it.

2. Analysis of the proposal, there is a starting point based on global statistics that affect the entities of different countries, which allows feeding the application, as well as the general interest in knowing how this virus moves.

3. Prototyping, in consensus with the team members, a prototype of an Android application that was downloaded by Playstore using the Android Studio v4.0 tool with a coding language in Java 8 was evaluated.

4. Promotion, it is estimated to spread the application through digital media, using social networks as the main viralization resource.

Data & Resources

1. Google Maps Api

2. Firebase Database

3. Google authentication

4. corona.lmao.ninj Api

5. Earth https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/earth/assets

Tags
#ViruSearch, # Covid19 # Covid, # virus, # ISTG, # population density, # model prediction, #human factory
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.