Immersive virtual reality as an empirical research tool: exploring the capability of a machine learning model for predicting construction workers’ safety behaviour

Gao, Yifan; González, Vicente A.; Yiu, Tak Wing; Cabrera‐Guerrero, Guillermo; Li, Nan; Baghouz, Anouar; Rahouti, Anass

doi:10.1007/s10055-021-00572-9

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“…Fear induction can also be measured using electromyography, which measures the degree of emotional arousal [ 77 ]. Gao et al [ 134 ] measured workers’ personality traits, such as extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism, to predict their safety behavior. This type of assessment appeared in 11.3% of items (11 items), all relating to VR.…”

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Critical Analysis of the Evaluation Methods of Extended Reality (XR) Experiences for Construction Safety

Salinas

Rivera

Serrano

2022

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The construction industry has high accident rates. The sector is exploring various tools to improve safety management, training, and awareness to achieve zero accidents. This work focuses on extended reality (XR), which encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies. Several authors have developed training experiences for construction safety in XR environments with positive conclusions about their effectiveness. However, there is no standardization regarding the evaluation methods used in the sector, and many experiences do not use any method. This lack is critical, as whenever the aim is to evaluate the degree of awareness of security issues, the implementation of evaluation systems is indispensable to make known the methods used in the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of the experiences and represent support for future research. This research identifies developments in XR experiences and analyzes the validation methods through a systematic review using the PRISMA methodology. It identifies two evaluation methods, objective and subjective, which are each broken down into four categories. The results show the types of evaluation, safety-related purposes, and safety application objectives used by the database classification.

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Critical Analysis of the Evaluation Methods of Extended Reality (XR) Experiences for Construction Safety

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Serrano

2022

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“…There is no programming in and ML and it aims to model, predict or control with computer programs using statistical techniques on existing data (Abioye et al, 2021). Various studies have been carried out to identify risks in construction safety and to prevent accidents by using one or more of the ML methods such as Bayesian network, genetic algorithm, neural network and support vector machine (Gao et al, 2022;Koc et al, 2021;Lee et al, 2020;Nayak et al, 2022;Sarkar et al, 2019).…”

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“…Also, VR has great potential for construction workers to protect their safety information (Bhoir and Esmaeili, 2015). Virtual reality can encourage participants' natural behavioral responses by simulating real situations and providing a good grasp of fidelity (Gao et al, 2022). Gao et al (2022), in their study, determined that virtual reality is promising for measuring the safety behavior of construction workers.…”

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“…Virtual reality can encourage participants' natural behavioral responses by simulating real situations and providing a good grasp of fidelity (Gao et al, 2022). Gao et al (2022), in their study, determined that virtual reality is promising for measuring the safety behavior of construction workers. Le et al (2015a) proposed experiential construction safety training based on social and collaborative VR.…”

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“…, 2022). Gao et al. (2022), in their study, determined that virtual reality is promising for measuring the safety behavior of construction workers.…”

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Immersive virtual reality as an empirical research tool: exploring the capability of a machine learning model for predicting construction workers’ safety behaviour

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Critical Analysis of the Evaluation Methods of Extended Reality (XR) Experiences for Construction Safety

Critical Analysis of the Evaluation Methods of Extended Reality (XR) Experiences for Construction Safety

Investigating the impact of emerging technologies on construction safety performance

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