A Context Based Architecture for Ubiquitous Kid’s Safety Care Using Space-oriented Model
Katsuhiro Takata, Jianhua Ma, Bernady O. Apduhan · 2005
Parents must supervise their children closely. However, there can be accidents that are caused by dangerous factors which frequently exist in special spaces in kids' surroundings. We need new computing power for kids' outdoor safety care. In this paper, we present our architecture of a system for ubiquitous outdoor safety care using space-oriented concepts and contexts. Traditional approaches in handling information in our surroundings require many engines for various analyses. To impose uniformity, we utilized the space-oriented model. Our system summarizes a situation using an acquisition knowledge base of accidents or parents' stored information, and detects a possible danger near the kid based on semantics of real spaces using a hypothesis based on cognitive patterns. All spaces and related information are defined by specialized schemas, and are described as space-oriented contexts using XML format. Our prototype application was based on the proposed model to evaluate kids' safety care.