Haptically-Enabled VR-Based Immersive Fire Fighting Training Simulator

Nahavandi, Saeid; Wei, Lei; Mullins, James; Fielding, Michael; Deshpande, Sameer; Watson, Matthew; Korany, S.; Nahavandi, Darius; Hettiarachchi, Imali; Najdovski, Zoran; Jones, Rebecca; Mullins, Alexandra; Carter, A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22871-2_2

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“…Different fire and smoke situations can be simulated and the user has a real fire hose in his hand to virtually extinguish the fire. The water jet is simulated and displayed in the virtual reality goggles [14]. A very similar approach to our work is a system that guides users out of the building using mixed reality [21].…”

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Interactive evacuation in intelligent buildings assisted by mixed reality

Wächter

Rexilius

König

2022

SCS

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Intelligent buildings offer a great opportunity to evacuate people more efficiently and safely by using dynamic evacuation guidance systems in comparison to static escape route signs. Static systems are unable to react to temporary events; their signs might guide the occupants directly to the hazard in the worst case. A dynamic system on the other hand determines the hazard position and calculates and displays an alternative escape route to avoiding the hazard position. In this work, we present a detailed study of current research approaches and introduce two algorithms developed for building evacuation. The first algorithm demonstrates the static evacuation and leads directly to the nearest exit. The second algorithm reacts dynamically to temporary events such as fire. A comparison of these algorithms shows that the dynamic system is more efficient. In order to test the dynamic approach in a real environment, a device to display the evacuation route is required. We propose a novel interactive evacuation approach using mixed reality glasses (HoloLens) for user guidance. A user study shows the advantages of the HoloLens and verifies our findings from the simulation in a real environment.

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Interactive evacuation in intelligent buildings assisted by mixed reality

Wächter

Rexilius

König

2022

SCS

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“…Krekhov et al [22] presented a self-transforming controller that adapts to the current vir-tual weapon by transforming between a pistol-like controller and a two-handed rifle-like device. In the context of firefighting training, Nahavandi et al [20] introduced a physical fire hose that can be used in the VR training by modeling physics of water sprayed from the fire hose and developing the point of fire, the rate of spread, and structural changes affected by the fire. These studies all confirmed that users have the most natural experience when there is consistency between the appearance of the controller shown in the VR content and that of the actual controller.…”

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“…Therefore, the research objective of this paper is to articulate the relationship between the use of VR controllers (i.e., standard VR controllers and customized controllers that mirror real tools) and the user experience through the lenses of two human factor constructs-perceived presence and cognitive load. Our research context is firefighting training to which VR technology has started to be applied [2,[17][18][19][20]. Through interviews with firefighters, we identified four core firefighting tools used in training and in the field.…”

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The More, the Better? Improving VR Firefighting Training System with Realistic Firefighter Tools as Controllers

Jeon

Paik

Yang

et al. 2021

Sensors

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A virtual reality (VR) controller plays a key role in supporting interactions between users and the virtual environment. This paper investigates the relationship between the user experience and VR control device modality. We developed a VR firefighting training system integrated with four control devices adapted from real firefighting tools. We iteratively improved the controllers and VR system through a pilot study with six participants and conducted a user study with 30 participants to assess two salient human factor constructs—perceived presence and cognitive load—with three device modality conditions (two standard VR controllers, four real tools, and a hybrid of one real tool and one standard VR controller). We found that having more realistic devices that simulate real tools does not necessarily guarantee a higher level of user experience, highlighting a strategic approach to the development and utilization of VR control devices. Our study gives empirical insights on establishing appropriate combinations of VR control device modality in the context of field-based VR simulation and training.

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“…Recent works (Biddle and Buck, 2019) also involved Ground Procedure training with a VR headset (to view the cockpit with earphones and microphone for audio feedback and verbal interaction) and a VR hand controller or haptic gloves to manipulate instruments in the cockpit (for life-like, veridical touch). They also have been applied for firefighting training where the difficulty (for trainees and HTS designers) is that real situations are always different: they require highly customizable simulators to be trustworthy (Nahavandi et al, 2019). Furthermore, even if not induced by dangerous situations, some various daily-life applications exist [haptic and interactive training for drawing and painting on 3D objects (Shima and Soga, 2019), learning piano (Gerry et al, 2019), .…”

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Haptic Training Simulation

Lelevé

McDaniel

Rossa

2020

Front. virtual real.

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Immersive virtual environments combined with kinaesthetic and/or tactile haptic feedback are becoming an essential building block of simulator training in a variety of applications. This paper aims to illustrate the interest of hands-on training simulation with haptic feedback. We review the recent application domains and we expose the progress and open challenges in the medical domain which is particularly demonstrative. The paper then addresses two aspects of haptic feedback that could help enhance modern haptic training simulators' performance, namely transparent and efficient actuation for kinaesthetic feedback and tactile feedback. This research topic, beyond technological progress, should help design kinaesthetic and tactile haptic interfaces and motivate the use of new actuation techniques for more realistic and effective feedback in simulations as soon as users are immersed in virtual environments.

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Haptically-Enabled VR-Based Immersive Fire Fighting Training Simulator

Cited by 19 publications

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Interactive evacuation in intelligent buildings assisted by mixed reality

Interactive evacuation in intelligent buildings assisted by mixed reality

The More, the Better? Improving VR Firefighting Training System with Realistic Firefighter Tools as Controllers

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