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.

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Summary

We aim to reduce the mental health impact stemming from social isolation through an app that connects people using their cultural and musical taste. The primordial feature would be through musical experience. Therefore, we would incorporate virtual and augmented reality and to enhance/simulate physical experience, and artificial intelligence to unite people with music, that we believe to be a universal language.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project aims to deconstruct the very cause of prejudicial social isolation occurrences: the fact of being alone, the main factor driving our challenge. 

From uniting different digital tools and communities through music, we propagate a universal language, channeling an energy that helps mitigate the lack of cultural programs, social interaction and intellectual incentives, therefore reducing perceived solitude and maximizing healthy social distancing practices.

How We Developed This Project

We overcame hurdles concerning range and scalability through a digital proposal. An app that can connect people in their neighborhood, country or continent! With Mentoring we overcame marketing issues and workflow issues.

On a Design level, we applied Illustrator and Figma and Google Presentations. For the video we used

Project Demo

SLIDES: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QdIMn9F_gSrmC1yIOMEDuRhZPJ6bP6TSvs5scyxMgW8/edit?usp=sharing

VIDEO PITCH: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zHQmpkptcOjrVQj1cbcekvSxSnYZaxV4/view

Data & Resources

-National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2020. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults: Opportunities for the Health Care System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 

-ANJOS,  Alexandre Gonzaga dos et al. Musicoterapia como estratégia de intervenção psicológica com crianças:  uma revisão da literaturaMusic therapy as a psychological intervention  strategy with children: a literature review. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online].  2017,  vol.10, n.2, pp. 228-238.  ISSN 1983-8220.

-2018 Cigna US Loneliness Index.

Tags
#music #app #socialdistancing #mobile #connectivity #share #loneliness
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.