Enhancing children understanding about mosquito through Let’s Learn About Mosquito Using Augmented Reality Mobile Application (LLaMUAR)

Mosquitoes and the mosquito-borne illnesses are the biggest contribution to human vector-borne disease burden, with over 80% of the global population are at risk of the diseases from these tiny creatures. Given the fact that, currently there is no permanent or effective vaccine or medication available to treat and protect against these vector-borne illnesses, early detection and prevention are important and essential. Previous existing study that conducted in Guyana has asserted that individual behavior, particularly preventive decisions, plays a crucial act in infection transmission of mosquitoes -bornediseases. It is important to spread the exposure of knowledge of mosquitoborne diseases suchas the symptoms, treatment, and prevention to the community since early ages. The emerging of Augmented Reality in education has recently attracted the research attention due to its ability to people to create the connection between the real world and the virtual world. Taking the benefits of the Augmented Reality technology that able to facilitate greater use of prior knowledge, more meaningful learning and deeper understanding, the project aims to implement the technology in the mobile application development to expose the knowledge and awareness regarding mosquito and mosquito diseases to the children with more effective, interesting, and meaningful experiences. Usability testing conducted among male and female respondents to test the performance, usefulness, learnability and accuracy of the application gives median score of five.