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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?

CoronaMaps

Summary

In Brazil, social distancing rates are below the ideal amount and often the sanitary standards are not being followed. Therefore, the population faces an increased risk of contamination and undesirable emotional reactions, as anxiety, due to the unawareness of places with agglomerations and that do not follow the required prevention measures. Our website will allow people to review, identify and avoid those places and assist to diminish risks of contagion and the correlated emotional reactions.

How We Addressed This Challenge

When analyzing the human factors related to the new coronavirus pandemic, it’s possible to see that the majority of possible preventive measures — such as social isolation and use of protective masks — depend on the collaboration of the population in order to achieve effective results. Thereby, the pandemic control on a global level is totally dependable on human factors involved in the disease spread.

In Brazil, a country that according to NASA’s epidemiologic data has a high COVID-19 prevalence, social distancing is below the ideal amount, at 46,2%*, and not always the new sanitary norms recommended by OMS are inspected. That way, the population may face places with agglomerations or that don’t follow the required prevention measures. These situations increase the risks of contagion and may create emotional reactions of anxiety, mainly at the risk groups, when facing the necessity to go out.

Creating a website that allows people to review, identify and avoid those places creates the opportunity to diminish risks of contagion and the emotional reactions that may be caused by those risks.

*Data from 05/31/20

How We Developed This Project

Our team got inspiration from the challenge “Human Factors” because it brought the opportunity for us to experience something different during this quarantine period, exercising our creativity to promote a solution for a challenge that has been a hassle to all of us.

Among the tools used to develop our project, Adobe Illustrator was responsible for the creation of the visual identity, and the website figma for the creation of the layout of Coronamaps. The website development was made using the web framework Angular 8, the API NodeJS + Express, and Python with the Panda library to parse the data from NASA, and PostgreSQL as a database.

The early stage was troubled with the realization that the project we were developing was more related to a different challenge, leading us to change the pace of the project. However, the group kept great communication at all times with great performance and agreement among all members.