Push4Safety

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  Push4Safety

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  Registration and Main Page Interface

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  Plan A Trip Process

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  Speed Dial Contact List, Location Tracker, and Emergency Services

Inspiration

🤍💙 When thinking of General Motor's problem statement, "...explore how can we leverage digital technology to improve our customers access to safety in their day-to-day lives", we were inspired by our personal experiences regarding safety as women in university. Many people, including ourselves, have gone through uncomfortable harassment situations, felt unsafe when walking by ourselves, got uneasy feelings when riding in a taxi/ride-sharing service alone, or had party plans go south from lack of safety awareness/planning. We should be more prepared, organized, and SAFE when going out, especially if we're going to be alone or in an unfamiliar situation!

What it does

🤍💙 Push4Safety is a mobile application that consists of 6 important safety factors that a user can PUSH for SAFETY: Plan A Trip: allows users to plan and document important aspects of their outings, including where they will be going, who they will be going with, how they will get to/from their destination, what they should bring, and share their plans with others/emergency contacts just in case! There is also an option to set an alarm at a specified time to remind the user about the time since its very easy to forget the dangers of staying out too late at night. Fake Call: allows users to answer to a fake pre-recorded call to escape socially awkward/harassment situations by pretending to be on an urgent phone-call with a friend. Speed Dial: allows users to have easy access to 4 set emergency contacts, which can be added/edited. Users can speed dial their emergency contacts with a simple push of a button! Location Tracker: allows users to share their locations with selected contact members and see the locations of contact members who have shared their location with the user. Location tracker also has an option to live record/track the users' location. Emergency Alarm: sets off a loud alarm in the case of an emergency/accident to either scare off a person, or catch the attention of strangers nearby the incident. Emergency Services: can be set to call 911 services by default, or be a way to manage/easily access security and first responder services, which can be customized by the user.

How we built it

🤍💙 Since we do not have strong coding abilities, we decided to create a detailed mock-up of Push4Safety on Figma! We are both creative individuals who are familiar with adobe photoshop and illustrator, which made it easy to think of a visually appealing logo and user friendly UX/XI design. The overall application is easy to look at and navigate, which can be suitable/accessible for many because of the text and visual aids.

Challenges we ran into

🤍💙 We ran into issues with coding because we did not possess strong coding language knowledge to execute building a mobile application that represented the ideas we envisioned in our solution.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

🤍💙 We are proud that we created an application that we would genuinely find use in! Through channeling the safety mindset that was highlighted by General Motors, we found ourselves incorporating GM behaviours like thinking of the customer, innovation, looking ahead, and being inclusive to create an application that can be useful to many people! Our final application gave us satisfaction that our hard work and creativity resulted in a project that we are both proud of.

What we learned

🤍💙 We developed our problem solving and innovation skills during this hackathon. We identified a problem that we personally connected with and created an application concept that we believe would be a viable solution to the issues people experience with safety. We are always reminded of safety but we often overlook its importance until we are put into danger. This hackathon topic re-enforces that safety should be one of our top priorities everyday.

What's next for Push4Safety

🤍💙 We can see Push4Safety being implemented into many users' routines and we eventually want to try to start coding our project. In terms of scalability, we want to include more inclusive options such as voice activation shortcuts to eliminate the need to look and push buttons. We also thought it would be cool to eventually provide unsafe area alerts through gathering user data that would flag places where they have felt unsafe so that other users can be more cautious around identified areas.

Built With

• figma