Empowering Reality: The Development of an ICT4Injury Prevention System to Educate Parents While Staying at Home

Abstract

Injury at living spaces accounts for over 70% of injuries among children under the age of 5 years and its prevention is essentially important in terms of children’s health. This paper proposes an effective method of integrating knowledge graphs along with object recognition to determine the dangerous situations for infants and provide preventive measures to avoid such situations. This also leads to the proposal of a new system called “Empowering Reality (ER)” that enables a lecturer to educate parents on preventing childhood unintentional injuries at home while communicating with the parents using Augmented Reality (AR) technology. The proposed ER system consists of knowledge graphs for explaining dangerous situations, an online video capturing part, and a situation recognition part. This paper describes major advantages of knowledge graphs that takes into consideration of not only relation between objects and injuries but also dangerous layouts with the help of “inclusion” and “collocation” features. The feasibility and effectiveness of the system was evaluated through tests among 11 parents. The system allows the lecturer to conduct in-situ suggestion on specific preventive measures adapted to the home environment via online learning.