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I am in trouble
- Manali Bhutiyani
- Jean Ro
- Anna Orlova
MotivationLack of help in life-threatening situations from officials and strangers
Developing countries lack official emergency support (911)Harvard Study: Lack of police response in developing countriesAmerican Journal of Public Health: Minority communities less
likely to be helped by strangers
Existing Social network based supportsOnly in major calamity - MARK SAFE
Idea: Engage social contacts for help in emergency
Mark me Safe
Implementation/IdeaAndroid app
How will it work?
Engage Support in steps
Close friends (location)Next set of friends
Chained networkEngage people in similar situations
who are unable to contact others.
Live surveillance Using the camera of the phone like a surveillance
camera, and the app can record and live stream everything on its own. Especially useful if one is in a life-threatening situation like kidnapping, mugging.
Trigger is shaking the phone.
Future enhancements:Voice recognition as a trigger instead of clicking an app. This will be more intuitive and
easier in life threatening scenarios.
Being able to send more information to various groups to ask for help.
SMS and Tagged messages at facebook by 1-click
Demo Time
Thank You