MyBody: augmented reality mobile application for understanding body boundaries / Nurul Shakila Abdul Rashid

Child abuse is known to be one of the major epidemics in our society, these issues have driven the attention of modern society. One of the most essential moves to inhibit these issues from occurring is by educating children about body boundaries. Teaching body boundaries to children at early age helps them to understand the context of body boundaries better. Also, there are so many educational tools used to teach children about body boundaries such as physical storybooks and video content from YouTube. Hence, we should change our conventional teaching to a more interactive learning environment by utilizing the use of technology. This project proposed to use Augmented Reality (AR) as the advanced technology in developing an AR storybook mobile application. Furthermore, in the current context of an AR storybook. The view of the physical book is enhanced using virtual objects that are projected over a display device. Besides, this approach helps the user to become more engaged and retain more information while having fun learning about the respected topic. Thus, the objective of this project is to identify the user requirements of MYbody in enhancing user experiences and interaction mainly, to design and to develop MYbody AR mobile application by following the Mobile Application Development Lifecycle (MADLC) methodology throughout the development process. The AR technique used is markerbased where the user will track the marker provided in order to activate the AR storybook. Besides, the expected outcome from this project is to help in creating an awareness to parents and children about child sexual abuse. Teachers can use MYbody AR mobile apps during the class session to teach students about the body boundaries topic. The future work for MYbody AR mobile application is to add more scene examples and do a collaboration with the ministry of woman, family and community and ministry of education, to produce a better content.