Safer Space

A Chrome extension created for Quellie Hacks 2021 Check out our submission here!

What is Safer Space?

• Safer Space is a Chrome extension that helps you browse the internet while blurring out potentially triggering content!
• Different types of content can be blurred in different colours to warn you about what comes next!
• Used the Hate_speech dataset to identify potentially discriminatory phrases

How do I use Safer Space?

• Toggle the on/off button for each type of content
• Customize each category with a blur colour and a sensitivity level
• Hover over blurred text to read content

What did we use?

• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS & Bootstrap
• Python
• Flask
• NLTK
• Ajax
• JQuery
• Chrome's storage API

What comes next?

• Increase the accuracy of the identification model using a larger and more diverse set of data.
• Implement a system where users can give feedback to improve the accuracy of the extension.

Contributors

• Jamie Tsai
• Danny Zhang
• Jenny Zhang