在虚拟现实中进行儿童行人安全培训:儿童如何快速实现成人功能,以及哪些个体差异会影响学习效率?
David C Schwebel1, Anna Johnston1, Dominique McDaniel2
1Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States.
Journal of safety research
|June 10, 2024
概括
虚拟现实 (VR) 培训有效地教导儿童穿越街道的技能,大多数在大约10个课程中达到成人能力. 这种方法提供了一种安全和可重复的方法来提高儿童行人安全.
科学领域:
- 儿科安全研究儿童安全研究
- 在教育中的虚拟现实应用.
- 儿童的发展和行为.
背景情况:
- 儿童行人受伤是一个全球性的健康问题.
- 虚拟现实 (VR) 为练习街道交叉技巧提供了一个安全的环境.
- 虚拟现实培训克服了儿童实时交通实践的伦理挑战.
研究的目的:
- 确定儿童达到成年人街道交叉能力所需的VR培训次数.
- 确定影响儿童VR行人安全培训效率的个体差异.
主要方法:
- 招募了500名7岁和8岁的孩子参加VR行人安全培训.
- 孩子们训练到成年人掌握,最多25次.
- 在基线评估认知感知技能和外部化症状.
主要成果:
- 孩子们在平均10个VR课程中获得了成人能力.
- 几乎所有的孩子在25个课程内掌握了技能.
- 在多变量分析中,儿童年龄是唯一重要的预测因素.
结论:
- 虚拟现实培训对7岁和8岁的孩子教学过街技巧非常有效.
- 几乎所有的孩子都可以在大约10个VR课程中达到成人水平的能力.
- 推VR行人安全培训,在独立交通信息之前进行仔细评估.
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