Emergency Push Notification Mobile Application A Study on Personal Safety Using Mobile Phone and Prototype Design

Mobile application has become a mainstream and ideal way for everything. This includes the implementation of mobile application in personal safety purpose. However, the effectiveness of the existing personal safety mobile applications is still questionable. This is because the help requestor still needs to undergo a series of step to request for help even with the use of mobile application. This proves to be time- consuming and inefficient in the kind of situation that involves the victim’s life in jeopardy. Requesting for help in such desperate situation such as kidnapping supposed to be quick and effective with most minimum procedure needed for the victim to request for help. Therefore, this research is to solve all the above mentioned problems by eliminating the series of procedure to request for help and in the same time addressing the issues associated with it. To achieve the goal of this research, the author aims to develop a prototype of a personal safety mobile application that addresses the mentioned concerns above. A series of methodology which involves qualitative and quantitative methodology will be executed in light of this research. Together with it, developmental tools of the prototype will be used by the author including Android Software Development Kit among others. The scope is fully focusing on the society of Malaysia as the research methods are executed by survey and other existing issue regarding personal safety among Malaysian citizen.