HELPP Zone: Towards protecting college students from dating violence

Masoumzadeh, Amirreza; Jin, Lei; Joshi, James; Constantino, Rose

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Title

HELPP Zone: Towards protecting college students from dating violence

Author(s)

• Masoumzadeh, Amirreza
• Jin, Lei
• Joshi, James
• Constantino, Rose

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• dating violence
• protection
• mobile application
• Intimate partner violence

Abstract

Dating violence is a type of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) which is a serious, preventable public health and social justice issue. If dating violence is left unchecked, it can bring short term and long term negative effects to survivors, especially college students who are developing emotionally. We built a mobile application called HELPP Zone (Health, Education on safety, and Legal Participant Preferred) for college students to protect them against potential dating violence. In the HELPP Zone, a user can set a list of trusted contacts and her schedule, and reach them for help based on the context (user’s location, schedule and status) when potential violence occurs. The HELLP Zone is our first step towards creating a platform to end dating violence.

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42058

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13481

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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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