Abstract
Hazard investigation education plays a crucial role in equipping students with adequate knowledge and skills to avoid or eliminate construction hazards at workplaces. With the emergence of various visualization technologies, virtual photoreality as well as 3D virtual reality have been adopted and proved advantageous to various educational disciplines. Despite the significant benefits of providing an engaging and immersive learning environment to promote construction education, recent research has also pointed out that virtual photoreality lacks a 3D object anatomization tools to support learning, while 3D-virtual reality cannot provide a real-world environment. In recent years, research efforts have studied virtual reality applications separately, and there is a lack of research integrating these technologies to overcome limitations and maximize advantages for enhancing learning outcomes. In this regard, the paper develops a construction hazard investigation system leveraging object anatomization on an Interactive Augmented Photoreality platform (iAPR). The proposed iAPR system integrates virtual photoreality with 3D-virtual reality. The iAPR consists of three key learning modules, namely Hazard Understanding Module (HUM), Hazard Recognition Module (HRM), and Safety Performance Module (SPM), which adopt the revised Bloom’s taxonomy theory. A prototype is developed and evaluated objectively through interactive system trials with educators, construction professionals, and learners. The findings demonstrate that the iAPR platform has significant pedagogic methods to improve learner’s construction hazard investigation knowledge and skills, which improve safety performance.
Highlights
The construction industry has been recognized as a dangerous and hazardous industry throughout the world [1,2]
Hazard investigation education is very important for equipping learners with adequate knowledge and skills to reduce potential hazards at construction jobsites
Despite the significant benefits of providing an engaging and immersive learning environment, 360 degree panoramic Virtual Photoreality (360VP) does not have 3D object anatomization tools to support learning, while the 3D-Virtual Reality (VR) limitation is a lack of providing a real-world environment
Summary
The construction industry has been recognized as a dangerous and hazardous industry throughout the world [1,2]. The advantage of 360VP is that it provides an immersive learning platform, where the learner can move flexibly and observe the scenes to investigate hazards as they would experience in real construction sites [18]. In recent years, researchers have focused on adapting virtual reality technologies separately, and lack of research integrates 360VP with 3D-VR to eliminate limitations and maximize the advantages of these technologies for promoting educational purposes In response to this status-quo, this research proposes a construction hazard investigation system, which leverages 3D object anatomization on an Interactive Augmented Photoreality (iAPR) platform. The proposed iAPR system augments a 360VP platform by integrating 3D-VR object anatomization technologies in order to create a learning environment, which reflects a real-word construction workplace. Recognizing and evaluating hazards, which need to use other human senses such as smell, touch, hearing, are out of research scope
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