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

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