PROJECT SUMMARY
PROBLEM STATEMENT
The Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet and Domestic Violence Victoria were the key project stakeholders.
They commissioned research during a 2016 government and technology sponsored hackathon to analyse de-identified data sets to better understand and respond to the “faces” of family violence in the state of Victoria.
Domestic Violence is a leading cause of intimate partner violence in Australia. One quarter of woman in Australia have experienced at least one incident of family violence in Australia.
Our stakeholders requested that we examine the Family Violence Royal Commission Submissions and Recommendations Report (2016) in order to better understand factors that reduce family violence.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
My responsibilities for this product development were as a; Project Manager, Product Designer, User Experience Designer, Information Architecture, Visual Design and Stakeholder Manager. During this project I collaborated with several software engineers and a data analyst.
PROJECT SUMMARY
Live Safe is a responsive mobile application that incorporates unique features to educate and empower domestic violence victims and guide them to safety. Additionally it captures vital evidence of crimes to assist the legal process.
PROJECT SCOPE
The scope of this project was to develop a prototype of a mobile phone application, that was informed by user research and competitive analysis.
This evidence was derived from government data sets and Family Violence Royal Commission findings.
Out of scope - a fully functional mobile application. The initial prototype time frame was less than 48 hours. Further development was dependent on securing additional project funding.
Copyright Notice
Additionally, our mobile phone prototype was widely copied across the mobile phone market positive affecting change, setting an international benchmark as a robust mobile application solution for domestic violence victims.
The author requests that academic researchers, government department officials and writers kindly respect the copyright of my teams research.
And also respect the fact that this data analysis was successful at identifying all the key vectors of domestic violence, in part due to the fact that I personally invested five years of my unpaid time researching this topic, with the intention of publishing my findings on the important subject.
KIM RISSON ACKNOWLEDGES THE TRADITIONAL FIRST NATIONS OWNERS OF THE LAND, WATERS AND SKY WHERE WE WORK, LIVE AND TRAVEL. WE PAY OUR RESPECTS TO ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ELDERS, PAST, PRESENT AND EMERGING, THEIR COMMUNITIES, CULTURE AND TRADITIONS.