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Safe locomotion| The Isolation Solution

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.

Summary

The main goal of the project is fighting social isolation by performing our daily routine but in a safer and organized manner. An application manages the number of people gathered in, for example, shopping malls. In order not to exceed a certain number depending on the capacity of the place. On the other hand, the user will be shown the positive impacts of the pandemic on some environmental factors through analyzing NASA earth data, which can relieve the stress of the social distancing.

How We Addressed This Challenge

This challenge requires innovative solutions to combat social isolation and its negative effects on people's mental health as depression and anxiety. In some cases, social distancing may have had the opposite effect of bringing families, groups, and individuals closer together socially, whether because of stay-at-home policies or technological adaptations such as video conferencing and teleworking. Our project demonstrates a solution to this issue by letting people perform their daily activities as shopping but in a more organized way, our application manages the inevitable gatherings in places like malls, in order not to exceed a certain number depending on the place capacity. This will let people perform some of their normal activities while maintaining the social distancing. Also, the application gives the users information about the bright side of Corona virus through comparing some environmental factors before and after the pandemic.

How We Developed This Project

At the beginning, we tried to figure out the challenges we, as youth, face during this pandemic. The most important one is the psychological effects of social isolation as depression, anxiety and fear of infection. Even if we go out only to get essential things like food and medications. We decided to demonstrate a solution for this challenge by developing an application that help organize the inevitable gatherings in places like shopping malls or pharmacies. The application contains two parts, the practical part manages the number of people existing in a certain place like supermarket, in order to maintain the social distancing while performing our daily routine, on the other hand we analyzed data from NASA earth data to show the positive impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on some environmental factors as ozone layer and pollution. In the process, we conducted the application using visual studio, android studio, and flutter. The coding language we used is dart. We faced some problems in communication and internet connection but we managed to conduct regular meetings to work together. Also, we learned some skills from scratch as using flutter in a very short time which is an achievement.