StopTheSpread

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/