Help Me: Evaluation of Applications to Support Women Victims of Domestic Violence
Resumo
Brazil, the fifth country with the most cases of femicide in the world, faces challenges both in its culture and in its public policies about supporting women who are victims of domestic violence. There are assistance programs, such as granting protective measures to ensure a minimum distance between the aggressor and the victim. Thus, different complementary initiatives emerged, such as applications that allow reporting incidents of violence and support for access. In this sense, this article proposes a technical evaluation of the five most popular brazilian applications on the Play Store dedicated to combating gender-based violence, considering technical metrics of usability and security.
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Bitencourt, M. R., Alarcão, A. C. J., Silva, L. L., Dutra, A. d. C., Caruzzo, N. M., Roszkowski, I., Bitencourt, M. R., Marques, V. D., Pelloso, S. M., and Carvalho, M. D. d. B. (2021). Predictors of violence against health professionals during the covid-19 pandemic in brazil: A cross-sectional study. PLoS one, 16(6):e0253398.
Buehlow, E. (2023). Victim services’ implementation of mobile tracking systems for victims of high-risk gender-based violence cases in ontario. Master’s thesis, University of Waterloo.
de Ávila, T. P. (2018). Facing domestic violence against women in brazil: advances and challenges. International journal for crime, justice and social democracy, 7(1):15–29.
Doria, N., Ausman, C., Wilson, S., Consalvo, A., Sinno, J., Boulos, L., and Numer, M. (2021). Women’s experiences of safety apps for sexualized violence: a narrative scoping review. BMC public health, 21(1):2330.
Dragiewicz, M., Burgess, J., Matamoros-Fernández, A., Salter, M., Suzor, N. P., Woodlock, D., and Harris, B. (2018). Technology facilitated coercive control: Domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4):609–625.
Eisenhut, K., Sauerborn, E., García-Moreno, C., and Wild, V. (2020). Mobile applications addressing violence against women: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health, 5(4).
Krone, C. (2013). Validação de heurísticas de usabilidade para celulares touchscreen. Grupo de Qualidade de Software (GQS). Florianópolis (SC): Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
Nielsen, J. and Molich, R. (1990). Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, pages 249–256.
Pasinato, W. (2016). The maria da penha law: 10 years on. SUR-Int’l J. on Hum Rts., 13:155.
Sarkar, N., Marra, K., and Osipova, M. (2023). Exit violence: Comparing usability of physical and visual alarm buttons in sos app in the context of domestic violence.
Sumra, M., Asghar, S., Khan, K. S., Fernández-Luna, J. M., Huete, J. F., and Bueno-Cavanillas, A. (2023). Smartphone apps for domestic violence prevention: a systematic review. International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(7):5246.
Publicado
21/07/2024
Como Citar
OLIVEIRA, Cynthya Letícia Teles de; FERRÃO, Isadora Garcia.
Help Me: Evaluation of Applications to Support Women Victims of Domestic Violence. In: WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (WIT), 18. , 2024, Brasília/DF.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2024
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p. 241-251.
ISSN 2763-8626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2024.2628.
