Senior Design Team sdmay19-40 • Call for Code for Natural Disasters • Affectionately known as "Project Hermes"
With natural disasters becoming increasingly more common, ways to provide relief to these victims are becoming more and more necessary. The goal of Call for Code project is to design a tool to improve preparedness for natural disasters and relief when they hit in order to safeguard the health and wellbeing of communities.
This project was inspired by IBM’s Call for Code challenge, which “is a rallying cry to developers to use their skills and mastery of the latest technologies to drive positive and long-lasting change across the world with their code.” Unfortunately, the timeline of the class did not allow for our team's involvement in the challenge, but this challenge helped stem the idea for this project.
We have created a multi step solution he help victims of natural disasters. Our first step will be to conduct user research and compile user requirements to determine what victims of natural disasters require in the time of need. We elaborate more on the users two sections below in: intended “users" and “uses.” This will be done over the course of a few weeks with the help from one of our advisors, Nicholas. After compiling user research and requirements, we will spend some time creating software requirements from the user stories. This will help us streamline what features we want to get done first and when we get into the development process we will be able to complete and test features faster. After developing and testing code, more vigorous code reviews and user tests will help us wrap up and finalize the software. By the end of the project we hope to create a phone app the will connect victims to a support line to help them through their disaster.