High-Level Project Summary
The project is developed to better understand the human brain and how it could work in tandem with machines. It's a revolutionary technology which could impact the medical, warfare and commercial fields drastically. In a futuristic society where life has moved to space and artificial planetary system, brain simulations could help with calming the human brain with all the drastic measures that might have been taken in order for the space society to work.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
In this project, technology is used to simulate the brain or a part of it. It converts data interpreted by a computer to signals that human brain interprets for creating an alternate reality in their minds. Codes, circuits, sensors, transmitters etc work together to connect, convert, and simulate the brain to create an artificial reality within the brain. It can be used for treating numerous mental health disorders in humans, provide mental training after major trauma and in warfare, commercially for developing environments for humans to experience etc. We used data chips to store the information, C++ programming language to create an interactive code which takes input to be chosen from the data chip.
Space Agency Data
During our search for inspiration, we stumbled upon the idea of creating a space society, where humans have colonised space by creating societies in the interstellar using various planetary models. Our idea came to be when we hit upon a doubt, how will people adapt to this change? How will their mental health affect to living in a floating shuttle? How is their brain activity going to change in accordance to the changes they are going to face? And we came up with the idea to create a technology which can closely monitor and also temporarily change the human brain's activity. Using this technology, the adaptation of the new life style could be made less stressful and any mental illness can be understood and taken care of. It could also help when people feel "homesick" by providing them a virtual environment to live in for a moment of peace.
Hackathon Journey
With this challenge we learnt that life is not as simple as it looks. We understood that every small change can drastically affect the human life. During the COVID-19 breakout, the entire world went through so many fluctuations and human life has changed in many ways, which has had various effects on the mental health of numerous people. And that had us questioning, how would we deal with all of these problems if we were ever to colonise spcae or another planet? And therefore this idea was born. We would like to express our immense gratitude to our mentor in this project, Pradyumna Yambar, who has helped us at every step of the process development of this idea and kept us going.
References
Software used:
- MS office
- Google workspace
- C++ compiler
Resources Used:
- Wikipedia
- YouTube
Images Resources:
- Top500
- Frontiers blog
- Business today (middle east)
- Horizon clinics
Tags
#computerscience #mentalhealth #brainsimulation #humanwelfare #coding