Road Construction Workers’ Boredom Susceptibility, Habituation to Warning Alarms, and Accident Proneness: Virtual Reality Experiment

Kim, Namgyun; Yan, Niya; Grégoire, Laurent; Anderson, Brian A.

doi:10.1061/jcemd4.coeng-12818

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“…In order to teach the newer generation, which is fairly tech-savvy, the use of technology such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) can provide ways to engage students in a social, collaborative, and active learning environment [4]. Kıral et al [26] developed a V-SAFE app in which trainees are exposed to actual building risks in a secure virtual environment. Users become knowledgeable of the dangers they can encounter at work and experience the possible consequences of their own or other decisions [26].…”

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Field Trips and Their Effect on Student Learning: A Comparison of Knowledge Assessment for Physical versus Virtual Field Trips in a Construction Management Course

Salman

2023

Virtual Worlds

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Teaching through field trips has been very effective in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) disciplines as it allows students to bridge the gap between theory and practice. However, it is not always feasible to take a large class on field trips due to time, safety, and cost limitations. To adequately prepare future professionals in the AEC industry, it is imperative that institutions adopt innovative methods of providing the field trip experience. One such approach is using virtual reality (VR) technology. Creating 3D VR construction environments and immersing students in that virtual world could provide an engaging and meaningful experience. Although researchers in AEC schools have developed and deployed many virtual field trips (VFTs) in education, little is known about their potential to provide the same knowledge base. For that reason, a VR app was created to teach students about the design and construction of steel structures, called the Steel Sculpture App (SSA). The SSA served as a VFT, and the location of the steel frame structure served as the actual field trip (AFT). The research was conducted in structure-related courses in the spring, summer, and fall of 2021 and the spring and fall of 2022 semesters. Each semester, students were split into groups, one being the control group and the other being the experimental group. The control groups learned through AFTs, whereas the experimental groups learned through VFTs. A knowledge test was administered at the end of each treatment to collect quantitative data on the students’ performance, understanding, and knowledge retention. The results indicated that the students learning from VFTs scored higher than those learning from AFTs. The paper discusses student assessment results and student feedback about replacing AFTs with VFTs in times of need.

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Field Trips and Their Effect on Student Learning: A Comparison of Knowledge Assessment for Physical versus Virtual Field Trips in a Construction Management Course

Salman

2023

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“…Participants used a Pico Neo 3 Pro VR headset to play 360° video footage recorded from multiple highway construction work zones ( Figure 1 ). Contrasting Kim et al’s [ 46 ] and Jelonek et al’s [ 47 ] game-like virtual environment, the pre-recorded 360-degree video footage employed in this study created a more realistic environment for participants while they performed various tasks during the experiment. Being a stand-alone device, the Pico VR headset allowed the users to move freely within a circled area of a three feet radius.…”

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Vibrotactile Alerting to Prevent Accidents in Highway Construction Work Zones: An Exploratory Study

Yang

Roofigari‐Esfahan

2023

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Struck-by accidents are the leading cause of injuries in highway construction work zones. Despite numerous safety interventions, injury rates remain high. As workers’ exposure to traffic is sometimes unavoidable, providing warnings can be an effective way to prevent imminent threats. Such warnings should consider work zone conditions that can hinder the timely perception of alerts, e.g., poor visibility and high noise level. This study proposes a vibrotactile system integrated into workers’ conventional personal protective equipment (PPE), i.e., safety vests. Three experiments were conducted to assess the feasibility of using vibrotactile signals to warn workers in highway environments, the perception and performance of vibrotactile signals at different body locations, and the usability of various warning strategies. The results revealed vibrotactile signals had a 43.6% faster reaction time than audio signals, and the perceived intensity and urgency levels on the sternum, shoulders, and upper back were significantly higher than the waist. Among different notification strategies used, providing a moving direction imposed significantly lower mental workloads and higher usability scores than providing a hazard direction. Further research should be conducted to reveal factors that affect alerting strategy preference towards a customizable system to elicit higher usability among users.

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“…Such observation provides an experimentally controlled demonstration of threat habituation. Experiencing the virtual accident increased the ability of the warning alarm to evoke checking behavior, which was sustained for at least one week post-accident (Kim, Anderson, et al, 2021; Kim, Gregoire, et al, 2023; Kim, Yan, et al, 2023). Habituation to the warning alarm was undone by the virtual accident; the blunted neural response to the warning alarm in experienced construction workers—evident prior to experiencing the virtual accident—was no longer evident a week following the virtual accident (Kim, Gregoire, et al, 2023).…”

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“…Signals for potentially hazardous information in the environment, for example a backup warning alarm, initially evoke regular checking behavior, but such orienting rapidly declines with consistent exposure in the absence of negative outcomes, until the potential threats go completely unchecked. Threat habituation provides a model for patterns of behavior observed in actual workplace settings (Lee & Kim, 2022; Weyman & Clarke, 2003) and can be rigorously measured when individuals perform work tasks in an experimentally controlled virtual environment (Kim, Anderson, et al, 2021; Kim, Gregoire, et al, 2023; Kim, Yan, et al, 2023).…”

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“…In spite of the immediate safety reminders, virtual accidents were observed in the majority of participants, with orienting to the warning alarm progressively decreasing in frequency and sensitivity throughout the performance of the virtual work task (Kim, Anderson, et al, 2021; Kim, Gregoire, et al, 2023; Kim, Yan, et al, 2023). This was particularly the case for participants prone to boredom (Kim, Yan, et al, 2023). Such observation provides an experimentally controlled demonstration of threat habituation.…”

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Attention Failures Cause Workplace Accidents: Why Workers Ignore Hazards and What To Do About It

Anderson,

Kim,

Gregoire

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Accidents readily occur when workers are not attentive to the hazards of their work. For some professionals, such as workers in the construction and mining industry, exposure to workplace hazards occurs on a daily basis. Such repetitive exposure to workplace hazards poses unique challenges for the attention of workers. This review explores how, in the absence of negative consequences, repetitive exposure to hazards decreases attention to them. Recommendations, informed by the science of attention, suggest how to combat the tendency to ignore frequently-exposed hazards and restore worker vigilance, thereby reducing the frequency of workplace accidents. Experiential training incorporating virtual reality holds some promise.

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Road Construction Workers’ Boredom Susceptibility, Habituation to Warning Alarms, and Accident Proneness: Virtual Reality Experiment

Cited by 9 publications

References 75 publications

Field Trips and Their Effect on Student Learning: A Comparison of Knowledge Assessment for Physical versus Virtual Field Trips in a Construction Management Course

Field Trips and Their Effect on Student Learning: A Comparison of Knowledge Assessment for Physical versus Virtual Field Trips in a Construction Management Course

Vibrotactile Alerting to Prevent Accidents in Highway Construction Work Zones: An Exploratory Study

Attention Failures Cause Workplace Accidents: Why Workers Ignore Hazards and What To Do About It

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