This talk is on how we developed a news article floated in the mailing list of the research group Precog to something super exciting and we have built multiple technologies around it. #ProfGiri #PrecogsRock Project details: http://labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/killfie/ Facebook chatbot: https://www.facebook.com/saftiebot/ Android app for marking the locations: https://goo.gl/2sIdYT Android app for predicting the location: http://labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/killfie/saftie

1. A SaFar in the World of Selfies, Forwards, RTs,
Likes, and Beyond
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”)
Associate Professor
IIIT Delhi & IIIT Hyderabad
linkedin.com/in/ponguru @ponguru fb.com/ponnurangam.kumaraguru

2. Growth of Selfies
◆ 55% of millennials (18 - 36-year-olds) have posted a "selfie"
on a social media service
◆ 24 billion selfies were uploaded to Google Photos in 2015
alone
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#ultimateselfie

4. How it started?
◆ July 2016, mailing list
◆ Some heart-wrenching incidents
◆ No datasets
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5. ◆ English language news articles
◆ Legitimate sources
What data & how we collected?
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6. http://labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/killfie/
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Selfies

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Deaths

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Reasons for deaths

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Casualties

13. https://www.facebook.com/saftiebot/
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14. https://www.facebook.com/saftiebot/
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15. https://goo.gl/2sIdYT
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16. 1000+ marked and 200+ verfied
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17. http://labs.precog.iiitd.edu.in/killfie/saftie
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18. Other solutions / interventions
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◆ 5,000+ messages with text, images, audio, video
◆ 800+ WhatsApp group, 200,000+ messages

22. ◆ Why people take dangerous selfies
◆ Why people believe fake messages
◆ Social / peer pressure?
◆ Social approval?
◆ Curiosity?
Social Science aspect to the problems
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23. ◆ Mark locations as dangerous
◆ Forward potentially fake messages
◆ Stop people from taking selfies in dangerous
locations
◆ Be wary/vigilant of what happens online
What can you do to help?
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24. Thanks!
pk@iiitd.ac.in
http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/
@ponguru
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