GoFearless: A Safety and Security Android Based Application for Women

Quazi Maliha Masud; M. Mesbahuddin Sarker; Alistair Barros; Md Whaiduzzaman

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GoFearless: A Safety and Security Android Based Application for Women

Quazi Maliha Masud, M. Mesbahuddin Sarker, Alistair Barros, Md Whaiduzzaman

Published in International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Volume 11, Issue 2)

Received: 21 March 2022 Accepted: 8 April 2022 Published: 20 April 2022

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In today’s world, savagery against women has developed at an alarming rate considering the startling and dishonorable episodes around us. For different purposes, women got to travel alone in public transport to known or even obscure areas, at night as well. Moreover, they confront sexual badgering, eve-teasing, kidnapping, and whatnot. From the social, psychological, and legal points of view, these phenomena have significantly affected people from all sectors. For the last couple of years, the utilization of GPS navigation equipped with smartphones has extended significantly. Thus a smartphone can be utilized proficiently for individual security or other security purposes. This paper represents an android application entitled “GoFearless” that can protect ladies from hazardous circumstances so that they can feel courageous while traveling or getting to work every day. It is an android app with unique features such as instant cautioning the trusted contacts in conjunction with user location with three emergency trigger buttons-Panic, Cautious, and Update. Besides these, there are other options like addresses of adjacent police stations, police contacts, one-tap call to a national crisis number, recording and saving the surrounding phenomenon for future evidence purposes, etc. This app is developed in Android Studio utilizing Java Development kit, thus acting as a defender, taking after the user until they feel secure.

Published in	International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (Volume 11, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijiis.20221102.12
Page(s)	22-30
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Violence Against Women, Public Transport, Smartphones, GPS Navigation, Android Application, Alert, Emergency Trigger Button, Java

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Quazi Maliha Masud

Institute of Information Technology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
M. Mesbahuddin Sarker

Institute of Information Technology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Alistair Barros

School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Md Whaiduzzaman

School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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