THE IDEA

Helping visitors, commuters and residents of Melbourne to get around the city safely is our vision. Using interactive mobile applications and social media, we aim to capture and analyse public perceptions of safety, and deliver a collective intelligence about places and their affective states at various times of the day. The visualisation of this information will increase the awareness of commuters of the situations in the city and help inform the stakeholders of the city for future policymaking and policing strategies. We believe that our mobile phone application can contribute to people feeling safer by supporting users to report crimes and misdemeanours which they witness and providing information about transportation and emergency services around where the users are located. The application can also act as a crime deterrent with one feature that enables user tracking by up to three family friends if the user opts to activate tracking when feeling unsafe while roaming the city.