High-Level Project Summary
Our solution is to create a website facilitating the space life experiment and making it more intriguing and less tiring! Passionate learners do not have to stare at raw dull data anymore! Our tool provides a simple interface to interact with the potential user’s imagination and the information provided on our website to combine it to get a space superhero that can survive in the space life without any help of another instrument or tool to get through this experiment, we believe in the importance of knowledge availability for everyone, our tool offers expert-level information with an amateur-level interface.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
What exactly does our project do?
In this project, we provide the potential users with an interactive tool through which they can understand how space life works and how different organisms will react up there. Our tool gives the user a chance to combine from a variety of models of organisms provided by us and generate a 3-Dimensional model and see how imagination can generate a whole new creature that can survive obstacles in space. Through noticing the differences of different organisms, the user could get a sense of the process and understand the generated superhero better. The tool also informs the user of the obstacles that astronauts facing in the space , including extreme gravity, disrupted sleep and circadian rhythms, limited supplies, and access to medical care, etc. The tool also gives the user the chance to play a simple game on every feature an organism have to get the sense of how these features will work when combining them into a superhero. The interface is straightforward and easy to use.
How does it work? and What benefits does it have?
we begin by the home page on our website That Collects Some Basic Information that will get the user to know more about the whole experience that waits for him. Then the user could easily get through the website pages, After The home page There is a Games Page that the user will get into after knowing the basic information of the coolest organisms and the specific thing that they can defeat an space obstacle with, By getting That specific part of every organism we will provide a simple game that will help in making fun while collecting these information that will also help in the end of the whole process when the user get to see how the final creatures will look after combining all these parts together. There are also other pages to take comments from users to manage better website and experience for them by taking these comments and transfer them into better UI and UX, Last, we make a page that will have every member of our team, The most important page is the page that we managed to design " a biology superhero " model of the combining parts of all organisms in one creature.
Space Agency Data
We used NASA resources:
to collect scientific data and present it in an understandable way to our users from all educational backgrounds
Hackathon Journey
It was our team's second hackathon, and it was an enthralling experience. We'd been working on a website for a while, but this hackathon was an entirely new experience. On a broader scale, we reinforce our teamwork and coordination skills. The work environment was interesting and conducive to the generation of fresh ideas.
References
We used NASA resources and some scientific papers to get the scientific content:
- NASA Human Research Roadmap: Risks
- NASA Space Biology Program
- 5 Hazards of Human Spaceflight
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/how-the-space-environment-influences-organisms-an-astrobiological-perspective-and-review/9114EFE89ADD99FCE5AD3FD49DD54B7B
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420314574
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17396002/
Tags
#biology, #computing, #space, #state, #Astro, #AstroState, #NASA, #StateOfAstronauts