Strangers

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Efficiency and accessibility were the two most important things included in our work on this project and our team came up with an idea and successfully went along with it by creating a smartphone application that have an easy and efficient user’s experience. First of all, the user will be provided with a list of countries from which they can select one and the app will supply them with all the needed information regarding the risk of COVID propagation in this given country and the safety measures required to keep themselves and their community safe such as the type of mask, social distancing protocols and so on based on the number of population and the number of cases in it, this will enable the user to find the rank of their country or if they are travelling to another one and enable them to understand the actual risk that they will be subjected to. The app will also calculate the individual risk of infection in a place that a user is going to by answering some questions regarding the description of this place and thus providing the means of decreasing the risk of infection. Not only that but our application will act as an open source for all COVID-19 related news so the user will be up to date with all the changes concerning the virus condition all over the world, all information about the vaccination as the types of vaccines available, the mechanism of action of each one and the answers to some frequently asked questions thus increasing people’s health awareness about these new conditions. We hope that when our solution is applied on a large scale, we’ll be able to get in touch with a data analyst and a bio statistician to be able to access the actual number of covid-19 cases and organize our data in a better way in order to make the app reach more people and thus help others more. Of course our job wouldn’t be that efficient without those many tools and softwares that we used along the process. To understand the process of calculating the risk of infection we used “QCovid” risk assessments and the “COVID-19 Risk Calculator” developed by HARVARD School Of Public Health. For the video making process we used “Videoscribe” for making the white board motion and “Premier” for editing the motion video and adding the voice over. In the app developing process we used Android Studio for the app design and the coding using Java programming language to link between the pages of the app.

In our solution we were aided and inspired by some space agencies that helped us in imaginig our application running and working, such as:

The European Space agency, the UK space sector is a world leader in applying satellite and data technology to challenges we face on Earth, from responding to natural disasters to managing outbreaks of infectious disease. Their work in facing the latest pandemic inspired us in understanding a better approach to deal with this challenge.

The Canadian Space Agency, The COVID Alert app had inspired us with some ideas.

JAXA for Earth on COVID-19 with the aid of NASA have helped us greatly in understanding the social and economic impacts of this epidemic through satellite imagery and Earth observation. 

NASA Space Apps Hackathon had been such a great experience for all of us, to be able to partcicipate in such a huge platform and having the opportunity for our voices and opinion to be heard was truly a massive honor, among the many things that we learned and which will never be forgotten is the thrill of making many great steps in just 48 hours and looking back at what we’ve accomplished feels amazing. When we thought about the challenges we thought about facts and seeing the number 4.55 million which is the number of deaths caused by the latest outbreak of COVID-19. This outbreak didn’t just negatively affect all segments of our population but the social and economic disruptions caused by it are devastating and considering it’s huge impact on every little aspect our lives, we decided to tackle this challenge and do our best in providing a solution that help other people in dealing with this drastic change and doing our everyday activities with the least amount of negative effect. Along our work in the project we faced some step backs, such as the mechanism of calculating the risk of infection but we were able to solve it by team communication and setting some tasks that were done by each team member the organizing a meeting and agreeing upon a solution for it.

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