Smartphones help catch criminals - Business portal wnp.pl

The Most Wanted App is a free application that uses technology to people trained memory – exercise with pictures. In this case, the pictures contain images of persons wanted lists go?czymi’s most dangerous offenses. This is the kind of game which searches for the same pairs of images – in a single turn can rotate the image up only two cards. Aim of the game: save the image and its location. Therefore, when the next election will be able to choose a pair of previously seen images. Difficulty planned on two levels: one is the number of cards being compared (12, 20 or 30), and the second – the similarity of images. The easier option are the same pictures, the more difficult compared to a picture of the sketch.

addition, a continuously updated database – you can check who and what is wanted. The list includes about 150 most dangerous wanted criminals. In Poland, police looking for about 36 thousand. persons for 14 thousand. issued arrest warrants. If you see the offender contained in the pages of the game can tell the police traditionally or send e-mail directly from the application.

– The more people using the application will be confronted facial image data of the person sought, the better it will be perpetuated Memory representation relating to the face. On the other hand, the use of different versions of the images of the faces of wanted persons (the original and the revised characteristics such as facial hair, etc.) as well as portraits of memory can lead to better remember the faces and better the later association of persons commonly found in the environment – says Eligius Wronka of the Institute of Psychology Jagiellonian University – an expert on the study of face perception.

The Most Wanted App is the first such application in the world, was created in collaboration with the Polish police initiative advertising agency DDB Warsaw and DDC MOBILE. For now, work on devices running Android version will soon appear on iPhones. You can download it at www.themostwantedapp.com.

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