Wiki¶

This work seeks to establish a new level of awareness, understanding and capability for providing specific mobile software features for users who are in a “panic” situations. We define “panic” as at risk of having their mobile device physically compromised or removed from their body, being physically detained themselves, or facing an immediate threat of violence, injury, kidnapping or death. This is not to say we are are building a global “911” system. We seek to explore how software that is explicitly designed for these situations, can provide some amount of assistance to the user, by either protecting their privacy, ensuring that sensitive data is hidden or unrecoverable, or that their support networks are notified of the panic event, and provided with the necessary information to take action.

Here is an example of a PanicKit user experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS1gstS6YS8

Overview¶

• PanicLib - Initial Concept
• Summary + Objectives
• Technical Foundation
• User Stories
• Metrics + Evaluation
• Timeline + Milestones

Apps and other outputs¶

• Ripple app on our FDroid repo, Google Play, GitHub, Transifex
• LocationPrivacy app on our FDroid repo, Google Play, GitHub, Transifex
• PanicKit
• Trigger Ideas
• Action Ideas
• Design Patterns

Related Projects¶

• Amnesty Panic Button

Old Links (for the old app)¶

• Code https://github.com/guardianproject/InTheClear
• Translations - English, Farsi, Arabic, Chinese - https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/intheclear

Design Progress¶

• panic_design_patterns_v1.pdf, October 15, 2015
  These design patterns outline the general user experience for connecting responder and trigger apps, testing, and using a trigger app. In these examples, a generic trigger app is used to demonstrate the patterns. Apps built by the Guardian Project that have panic settings are shown as example responders.