Play it safe a personal security application on Android platform

Abstract

Nowadays, one of the top serious problems in Thai society especially for women is personal security such as sexual harassment, imprisonment, and abuse. Due to the popularity of smartphones which has become a necessary device for our daily life, several mobile applications have been developed to provide a solution for the personal security problem. This idea suits very well for the personal security situation since most people usually carry their mobile devices all the time allowing them immediately use the applications. In this paper, we propose the Play It Safe application as an alternative solution to mitigate personal security problem. Our application provides a new SOS service that can automatically send an SOS notification to nearby users in addition to the normal SOS service that sends an SOS notification to his/her emergency contacts.