The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

An educational and didactic isolation

Summary

Currently, the policies of social distancing due to the spread of COVID-19 around the world, has caused social isolation and confinement in recent months, according to research by NASA, compared to space travel and the mental and physical state of astronauts, show that this isolation can adversely affect our health, as it has produced a decline in cognitive functioning and mood, on the other hand, could develop a sleep disorder, depression, stress and fatigue, etc.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We decided to create a digital platform model in the planning phase with two (2) components, the first component is oriented to friendly and didactic virtual education and the second component to recreation, use of free time of children, youth, adults and seniors. It should be noted that due to time our platform is in the planning phase and requires an interdisciplinary team both in the area of computer science, as pedagogical and graphic design or animation for its construction that today we do not have in the development of the challenge.

How We Developed This Project

On March 19 our mayor decreed a state of siege isolating the entire population to prevent the spread of COVID - 19. From there on, the National, Departmental and Municipal Governments established strategies for the protection of the community based on social isolation and the confinement of the inhabitants in their homes.

This situation forced the confinement and isolation of a young and adult population for more than 60 days, even to date it still occurs rigorously for people over 70 years or people with diseases that lead to the affectation or deterioration of health by COVID - 19 , workers in some economic sectors have returned to the factories, local trade has opened its doors with logistical measures of distance, but children and young people are at home unable to return to schools, colleges or universities because of isolation and social confinement. 

We used the data from the space agency to rethink ideas that could solve the isolation; in addition we have modeling tools such as Enterprise Architect to make the sample solution graphs.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jf-19MBRVMU5IpTZ2_vybIldMrICe3FN/view?usp=sharing

Data & Resources
  1. https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation/in-context
  2. https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation
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Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.