Shield Us
Creators: Aeja, Julie, Ryanna & Isaiah
School: High School Students from Academy of Innovative Technology
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Project Themes: Public Services
About this Project
The problem is that people feel uncomfortable and unsafe about there surroundings where weird people would sexually harass them and the people would have been traumatize by that act.The app will solve the users problem by helping the users provide quick alerts, safety tips and a panic button to send locations to trusted friends and family. This could also help people by making them feel more comfortable with talking about their experiences and help them feel more safer with their surroundings.
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Professional Feedback
This project is tackling an important problem in society, and I like that documentation is a key feature that can keep everything in one place, if you decide to take further action. I can see the hotspots on the map being used by police to increase monitoring.
I do not have access to the Lovable prototype, but I'm curious if you conducted any user interviews or user research that helped you identify the features to build in the app? Are police informed about every submission, or only if the user chooses to?
It would be really nice to also have other resources available to the users to help them deal with what they've gone through - maybe articles, a therapist recommendation, a local organization, etc.
I do not have access to the Lovable prototype, but I'm curious if you conducted any user interviews or user research that helped you identify the features to build in the app? Are police informed about every submission, or only if the user chooses to?
It would be really nice to also have other resources available to the users to help them deal with what they've gone through - maybe articles, a therapist recommendation, a local organization, etc.
This app is truly needed in this day and age, where many people many encounter harassment and may not know how to speak up about it. One small minor thing that I want to comment on is that you used there instead of their in the first bullet in the Problem Overview and there should be a space in between teenagers and the open parentheses. The third slides second sentence is a run on and could be broken into two or three sentences. You may want to rescan your image for the user experience to showcase your prototype sketch. Slide four includes many details about the usage of the app and the target audience. You may want to separate this information into two slides so that people do not get lost trying to read about Maya's experience. I think it is a great idea that people can have officers dispatched right away and have others who have similar issues with an individual chime in on a perpetrator. The NYPD could use something like this. Great job. I love the panic button.
