Do you also find it difficult at times to estimate how much 1.5 meters is and how much distance you should keep from others in public? Alumnus Daryl Autar, co-founder of Wavy Assistant, found a creative solution to this problem with his app WavyBubble.
WavyBubble creates a 1.5-meter radius virtual bubble around its users: every time somebody enters this personal bubble an alarm goes off. This way WavyBubble trains its users in recognizing how much distance they should keep from each other, which helps countering the spread of the coronavirus. Keeping data privacy in mind, this is achieved without accessing the device's location data.
The app did not go unnoticed: WavyBubble won the prize for “Best Data Driven” in the Dutch Hacking Health Hack Corona virtual hackathon and was afterwards featured by Dutch national tv-show Op 1 on NPO 1 on 31 March 2020.
Curious about the app and want to help its further development? Wavy Assistant is still looking for test users! To become one, sign up here. Don't feel like becoming a test user, but want to support in a different way, for example by donating? See how you can help here.
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Daryl Autar graduated from Erasmus School of Economics in 2015.
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