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The Isolation Solution
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Summary
Website prototype to help those, who practice social distancing, by providing helpful information about physical and mental health, in addition to that we suggest to intractably learn how self-isolation correlates with life in space, imitate users’ presence space with other crew members performing crucial tasks. As astronauts are experienced in the isolation field, we combined useful tips from them, sharing similar self-tests allowing the user to evaluate their performance as astronauts do.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Social distancing is hard for all of us, so we decided to create a website, different from existing ones, with features made specifically for those, looking for help, tips, entertainment and connections during these times. First part of our project provides different health information, as well as tips from mental health professionals and astronauts. Second part invites users to analyze how their situation right now could be similar to astronauts in space and offers to play interactive space game called “Become an astronaut”. Second part also introduces self-tests, similar to the one’s astronauts take, to evaluate users’ productivity, reaction time, etc. Third part is a platform for users to combat loneliness and connect to others, based on the interests and thoughts related to isolation.
How We Developed This Project
Inspiration: Everyone is experiencing this problem and it affects us directly, but it’s not a new issue. Astronauts have been experiencing isolation for years, what interested us the most was their ways of working and living in limited space with a team and isolated from their usual lifestyle and their families while being productive.
Approach: we decided to create a website prototype, but in the future, we are planning to create a web page, which we already have an electronic/paper model.
Data: we used NASA and ESA data in the creation of a simulation of astronaut's day: routine, various tasks, and problems they face. In visualizing their daily life, we used photos from ISS.
Tools: online modeling platform Balsamiq.cloud
Problems and achievements: we successfully created a model of a future web page, the demo version of the game, which could be useful not only for a regular citizen but also for training future astronauts (if developed further). We lacked time, so weren’t able to create the real working demo version of our web page, however, we would love to develop it in the future.
Project Demo
Links to electronic/paper prototype of web page:
https://balsamiq.cloud/skt8v7w/pp5v9da/rB6C6?f=N4IgUiBcCMA0IDkpxAYWfAMhkAhHAsjgFo4DSUA2gLoC%2BQA%3D
https://balsamiq.cloud/skt8v7w/pp5v9da
Project Code
Data & Resources
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-files/202003/7-tips-handling-isolation-during-the-pandemic
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-self-isolation-a-psychologist-explains-how-to-avoid-cabin-fever-133317
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts
https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/loneliness-quiz/
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/productivity-quiz.htm
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?fbclid=IwAR0oMw42u-lDzbp1FMCJtLh0I8bQSLle8nk02m4GZ_F6hWAY8ysUVaiLbzQ#id=955
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation/in-context
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?fbclid=IwAR0oMw42u-lDzbp1FMCJtLh0I8bQSLle8nk02m4GZ_F6hWAY8ysUVaiLbzQ#id=955
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/dayinthelife
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/social-isolation/in-context
https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/05/hallucinations-isolation-astronauts-mental-health-space-missions