Project description
Giving children a voice through their drawings
Children between the ages of 2 and 12 cannot always describe their feelings, which can make it hard to recognise situations of emotional or physical abuse. The EU-funded Anima project has set out to assess the business and technical feasibility of a user-friendly, artificial intelligence-based app for mobiles and tablets called Anima. The app will help professionals understand the emotional well-being of children by interpreting their drawings; it will analyse self-image drawings using a unique algorithm and then send the analysis in real time to the reviewer’s profile. The innovative solution will be further optimised before it is launched onto the market.
Objective
Since children in their early years have little vocabulary, it can be difficult to understand how children feel. Particularly, this become a serious problem when it comes to dangerous issues such as depression, distress, anger or trauma caused by emotional or physical abuse.
More than 8000 studies have been published about the possibility to get insights on the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of each child through the analysis of their drawings.
Anima, our innovative application is grounded in the latest psychological thinking of art interpretation. Anima is the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that can accurately interpret children’s drawings to provide a preliminary emotional analysis to alert guardians and child therapists about the possibility of the existence of suspected abnormal behaviour and prevent deterioration in the mental state of the child. IBM selected Anima’s prototype as a finalist in their IBM Watson build challenge.
We now need investment to turn this promising prototype into a commercially successful product within the lucrative mhealth market. The proposed work in Phase 1 of the SME instrument fits into our overall plan to reach the market by contributing the financial resources needed to plan a fast sound wider deployment of Anima.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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4863149 ROSH HAAYIN
Israel
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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