Updates:

1. Tez spoke to contacts in final clubs; they are willing to give us some feedback about the app. We want to do a focus group in about a month, when we have more information to present. The tentative date is November 16, Sunday.
2. We want to have another focus group for more aware or passionate individuals (such as CAARE)
3. Jen knows people in GradSAGE and Our Harvard Can Do Better who can support this app. Also good to consider the UC for sponsorship.

We have a review of the app with the Berkman team on Wednesday, October 22. Want to give a wide variety of options so that there are a lot of places for feedback.

Current Outline

Biggest concerns:

1. False positive. You can put your phone in your purse and forget about it and then the possibility crying wolf happens. There is about half an hour at most when you are not holding on to your back or your phone. Most people are checking their phones constantly, so at least in college culture this might be less of a problem.  But we definitely want to emphasize that people should set how long they have between check ins. Focus should be less on asking for help and more on bystander intervention.
2. Need a large community buy-in for the bystander intervention effect to work. This is why we need the big ad campaign.
3. Abuse of the app. Issues of predators using the app to find vulnerable people. Also limiting the app to someone who has an HUID or a .edu account.

Capabilities:

1. Check-in and alerting that you have an emergency
   1. Duration of time between missed check-in and sending an alert
   2. Who the alert is sent to—friends, proximal people, or mix of both
   3. Privacy/how long the information is kept
2. Walking
   1. Privacy/how long the information is kept
3. Database/FAQ/Tips
   1. Phone numbers of BARCC, OSAPR, HUPD, etc.
   2. Tips for how to be a good bystander (see NightOwl app from CMU)
4. Adding brownie points
   1. Supports/Encourages bystander intervention
   2. Allows easy way to rank friends (know who you will help you when you need it)

Geared toward:

College campuses, starting with Harvard

Graduate students might use it when walking on

Technical concerns:

What platform should we make it in (iOS, Android?)

Concerns about GPS—will it drain the phone battery? Selective GPS?

Designing a prototype (Flinto) https://www.flinto.com/ — getting a subscription for that?

Designing a media package:

Prof. Rosenfeld would be a good resource here, given her conenctions

Video? Ad campaign?

Might be nice to have something ready by the next school year to add to orientation

To Do

Tez, Alina, and Ana will go to the Mid-Semester Review on Wednesday.

Tez will get back to final club people, thanking them for their interest and letting them know about the date.

Jen can create a few more visuals of what the product will look like.

Everyone should add to the Google form that Tez shared with the group last week. We aim to send out the survey out to people within the next two weeks, before the focus groups.