An educational game for teaching the best practices to prevent flu spreading
This mobile application aims to teach fundamental concepts of Epidemiology to the general public.
It is designed to:
- draw a comparison between real scenarios and how scientists model them;
- explain what are the best practices to prevent flu spreading according to the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention; and
- provide hyperlinks to help scientists in tracking the spread of flu
The mobile application is developed at the Dynamical Systems Laboratory: http://faculty.poly.edu/~mporfiri/index.htm
Supported by the National Science Foundation: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561134
Deployed by New York University:
https://www.nyu.edu/