Agrawala, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, developed M-Urgency, an app for Android mobile phones that instantly shares video, audio and location information in emergency situations with university police dispatchers. How did you come up with the app idea?
One question I always asked myself and the other faculty was what kind of technology can be developed and what kind of technological solutions can be provided to improve the quality of life on campus. One of the solutions we came up with was to provide much better-quality information to the first responders, and our solution was to provide a video to the first responders. The result has been this particular app.
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