Sensor Network with Active Instructional Content to Prevent Child Safety Seat Misuse

项目概要/摘要 明尼苏达州健康解决方案（MHS）建议开发一种创新的儿童安全座椅用户参与系统 旨在积极教育，指导和警告护理人员，以防止关键的儿童安全座椅 滥用和伤害儿童乘坐机动车辆。关键使能技术使拟议的系统 技术上是可行的。机动车碰撞是意外发病的主要原因， 美国儿童死亡率。在过去的十年里，成千上万的儿童死于无意的撞车事故， 还有数百万人受伤住院治疗。正确使用儿童安全座椅是最有效的保护方式 参与撞车事故的幼儿严重受伤或死亡，绝大多数儿童坐在儿童座椅上， 安全座椅然而，几项大型研究观察到，只有10%至20%的儿童是正确的， 安装在正确安装的座椅上。儿童约束装置使用不当会大大降低其有效性 并且是一个主要的公共卫生问题。需要更好的系统来提高儿童安全座椅的正确使用率 使用.我们假设，所提出的儿童安全座椅用户参与系统将显著改善 儿童安全座椅的正确使用率，并减少与车辆碰撞有关的儿童受伤和死亡。一个 跨学科的研究人员团队已经组装，以定义，建立和评估可行性-和生产- 第一阶段和第二阶段的原型系统。第二阶段的生产原型开发将 在严格的质量控制设计和测试过程中完成，以确保安全有效的产品 制作。

Project Summary/Abstract Minnesota HealthSolutions (MHS) proposes to develop an innovative child safety seat user engagement system that aims to actively educate, instruct and alarm caregivers with the goal of preventing critical child safety seat misuses and injuries to children riding in motor vehicles. Key enabling technologies make the proposed system technically feasible at this time. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional morbidity and mortality in American children. In the past ten years, thousands of children have died in unintentional crashes and millions more had hospital-treated injuries. Properly utilized child safety seats are the most effective way to protect young children involved in crashes from serious injury or death and the vast majority of children are seated in child safety seats. However, several large studies have observed that only 10% to 20% of children are correctly harnessed into correctly installed seats. Improper use of child restraints substantially reduces their effectiveness and is a major public health concern. Better systems are needed to improve the rate of proper child safety seat use. We hypothesize that the proposed child safety seat user engagement system will significantly improve the rate of proper child safety seat usage and reduce vehicle crash-related child injuries and deaths. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has been assembled to define, build, and evaluate feasibility- and production- prototype systems in phase I and phase II, respectively. The phase II production-prototype development will be completed in a rigorous quality-controlled design and testing process to ensure a safe and effective product is produced.