Abstract
Abstract – Traffic accident has become number 3 of children death cause in the world according to WHO[1]. Traffic accident that involve children often caused by their own by breaking the law or regulation. Therefor education about traffic regulation and law including traffic sign and its meaning must be given to children early. Because education means process to change a person or a group attitude and behavior in order to make them mature through teaching and training [2]. One of them that can be used is digital media. One of interactive digital media is digital game, various form of digital game start from 2D, 2.5D, 3D with many point of view and new technology. VR (Virtual Reality) as new digital media where alternate reality exist to test various theory without any real consequences, according to Greenbaum “Virtual Reality is an alternate world filled with computer-generated images that respond to human movements. These simulated environments are usually visited with the aid of an expensive data suit which features stereophonic video goggles and fiber-optic data gloves”[3]. Greenbaum statement before were make VR suitable to test traffic law and regulation and educate kid to obey the traffic sign and regulation without real consequences from real world. This Journal contain the result of using virtual reality as traffic regulation education media. Education material that arranged consisting traffic sign that appear on the road and safety riding gear. Keywords – Virtual Reality, Traffic sign, Road traffic, children, education
Highlights
Vehicle population in Indonesia especially private vehicle according to OICA (OrganisationInternationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles) statistic shows the significant annual growth [4]
Second stage is PostTest.This stage is conducted after respondent finishes playing the game, on this stage respondentare asked to tell their knowledge about traffic sign and safety gear when riding motorcycle
In Pre-Test questionnaire, 2 questions are about safety riding gear, and 3 questions are about virtual reality experience before respondents play the game
Summary
Vehicle population in Indonesia especially private vehicle according to OICA (OrganisationInternationale des Constructeurs d’Automobiles) statistic shows the significant annual growth [4]. According to WHO, traffic accidents are on the third place on children at age 0-14[1], and this problem becomes main concern. Indonesia Act 2009 Number 22 about road traffic and transportation states “every person who drives a vehicle must obey: traffic sign, road marking, traffic lamp and sirens, traffic motion stop and parking, horn and light, maximum and minimum speed, coupling procedure”[6].Anyway, the number of traffic law violations keeps increasing year by year in Indonesia. Besides,adult traffic violation isexecuted by children too. This behavior leads to secondary effect like robbery, street racing, and other street crime[8]. This problem leads to aggressive driving behavior where children become impatient and dangerous for people around them[9]. Traffic sign and traffic jam make driver become aggressive and increase chance of traffic accident[9]
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