HearMe: A smart mobile application for mitigating women harassment

Sexual violence against women has become one of the most important social security problems in South Asian region. None of the existing humanitarian mobile applications exactly contains the features that a victim needs in times of danger or immediately after being victimized. In this paper, we develop a smart mobile application, namely HearMe, with multiple unique features including lock screen access and instant siren on the receiver device. The modules of HearMe application can be accessed through hardware buttons in order to facilitate quick access to the victim woman. Another important feature of HearMe is to blow a loud siren at the receiver device even if the mobile is in silent mode, increasing the reliability of getting help from the family members or hospital/police station personnel.