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PARS: Using Augmented 360-Degree Panoramas of Reality for Construction Safety Training

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  • Ricardo Eiris

    (Rinker School of Construction Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA)

  • Masoud Gheisari

    (Rinker School of Construction Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA)

  • Behzad Esmaeili

    (Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA)

Abstract

Improving the hazard-identification skills of construction workers is a vital step towards preventing accidents in the increasingly complex working conditions of construction jobsites. Training the construction workforce to recognize hazards therefore plays a central role in preparing workers to actively understand safety-related risks and make assertive safety decisions. Considering the inadequacies of traditional safety-training methods (e.g., passive lectures, videos, demonstrations), researchers have employed advanced visualization techniques such as virtual reality technologies to enable users to actively improve their hazard-identification skills in a safe and controlled environment. However, current virtual reality techniques sacrifice realism and demand high computational costs to reproduce real environments. Augmented 360-degree panoramas of reality offers an innovative alternative that creates low-cost, simple-to-capture, true-to-reality representations of the actual construction jobsite within which trainees may practice identifying hazards. This proof-of-concept study developed and evaluated a platform using augmented 360-degree panoramas of reality (PARS) for safety-training applications to enhance trainees’ hazard-identification skills for four types of sample hazards. Thirty subjects participated in a usability test that evaluated the PARS training platform and its augmented 360-degree images captured from real construction jobsites. The usability reviews demonstrate that the trainees found the platform and augmentations advantageously to learning hazard identification. The results of this study will foreseeably help researchers in developing engaging training platforms to improve the hazard-identification skills of workers.

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  • Ricardo Eiris & Masoud Gheisari & Behzad Esmaeili, 2018. "PARS: Using Augmented 360-Degree Panoramas of Reality for Construction Safety Training," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-21, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:15:y:2018:i:11:p:2452-:d:180383
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