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36 Operation and New Build VR Topic Worker Training Post-Secondary Education Planning and Assessment Open Source Partnering Job Briefing and Overview Human interface design Labour Takeaway ⁃ The application of VR for training purposes is timely and profound. ⁃ Exposing and familiarizing workers with unsafe, impossible, or impracticable scenarios. ⁃ Once a training program is created, the ease to upscale the application makes it a powerful tool for managers. ⁃ Using VR to simulate industrial-grade laboratories, and other plant activities allow for early access and exposure to the environments in which a graduate will be expected to work once they enter the workforce. ⁃ By adding VR and AR tools to the planning arsenal, managers can expect to see fewer surprises and more predictable outcomes, especially as higher fidelity models are developed. ⁃ It would benefit all companies with goals to develop VR to cultivate a space for the sharing of methodologies via a version of the Open Source initiative ⁃ Partnering with post-secondary institutions and research centers will help explore and determine paths to follow for establishing long-lasting relationships to solidify research and development capacity ⁃ Cooperative training between different companies, institutions and vendors in a bootcamp environment can accelerate the adoption of more advanced VR models and tools ⁃ The activity of briefing workers can be ameliorated by translating and conveying the work activities plan for the workers performing the work activity. ⁃ The immersive nature of VR provides a more a profound awareness of the environment and task on which the worker is about to embark. ⁃ The ease of adapting a VR model is minimum when compared to reconstructing a real-world model. ⁃ This allows for more iterations and therefore improvements with each revision when designing a human interface. ⁃ The challenges that will be faced by companies wishing to develop and deploy VR solutions to industrial systems will primarily be labour related. Tab. 4. A Summary of Takeaways from the Previous Literature review of VR Topics potential to grab the undivided attention of kids ranging from 13 to 23 years of age.” 5.4.2. Oil/Chemical Industry Again, we have many VR papers in the Oil/Chemical industry but only one that combines it with Serious Games. [29] In “Perceptions of the use of virtual reality games for chemical engineering education and professional training” the authors found “that students and professionals believe that IVR games are useful for learning. A comparison of the two groups revealed that professionals were more accepting of the technology compared to students. Students presented concerns with the use of the technology for classroom learning.” 5.4.3. First Responder In this category, more papers were found that studied both VR and Serious Games. Areas such as VR Mine Rescue [30] Training, Evacuation Training [31] and Indoor Fire Simulation [32] all benefited from Serious Games/ VR training because they are “highly engaging and promote greater cognitive learning” [31] Further “the reduced prices of hardware and software expedited the rise of the VR/AR immersive training experiences.” [32] Interestingly and perhaps in refute of a common preconception, the miners “were aged between 24 and 64 years and had up to 40 years of mines rescue experience. Questionnaire data and learning outcome measures showed that these miners were able to effectively engage with, and learn from, this VR training regardless of their age or mining experience” [30] 5.4.4. Health and Safety This category was overwhelming the most common area where Serious Games met VR. In “Using Serious Games in Virtual Reality for Automated Close Call and Contact Collision Analysis in Construction Safety” [33] , they presented “a novel approach for the automated assessment of players data… The proposed method gathers and processes the data within a serious game for instant personalized feedback. The application focuses on close calls and contact collisions between construction workers and hazards like equipment, harmful substances, or restricted work zones. The results demonstrate the benefits and limitations of safety information previously unavailable, or very hard or impossible to collect.” A commonly cited paper is “Virtual reality training system for maintenance and operation of high-voltage overhead power lines” [34] . As per previous discussion Ausgabe 2 › März
Operation and New Build 37 a key part of VR training benefits is practicing in a safe environment for handling undetectable hazards. This paper describes its work as “The general aim of this work was to provide electric utilities a suitable workforce training system to train and to certify operators working in complex and unsafe environments.” Their finding was that “The system has demonstrated to be a cost-effective tool for transferring skills and knowledge to new workers while reducing the time and money invested in their training.” [34] In the direct Health field, papers find that “the use of augmented reality and virtual reality games has promising potential, especially for safety training and rehabilitation” [35] In more industrial settings such as mechanical assembly operations and industrial plants, authors discuss such things as “delivering learning content in the form of short educational games by using a common technological platform based on virtual, interactive and immersive reality.” [36] Additionally, they find “the players can improve their own management abilities through repetitive random sessions” [37] 5.4.5. Nuclear Sector Lastly, we examine the only two papers in which the Nuclear Industry used Serious Games with VR approaches to training. The authors of one paper, describe the difficulties in training in a NPP environment “Factors such as radiation levels as well as the likelihood of hindering ongoing operations make it difficult to carry out training at actual sites. Traditional methods of repeating a task over and over again also cannot be realistically employed in many operating facilities” [38] They take an interesting approach to providing the VR Serious Game environment: “The model is a fairly realistic representation of the TRIGA facility developed using Unreal Engine III. Unreal Engine III is part of a commercial PC game, Unreal Tournament III, which was released in 2007 by Epic Games.” The other paper, published in 2009, describes the approach where “first responders can “play” and, hence, experience and emulate the operational and emergency scenarios of a plant through these specifically developed interactive and 3-D graphical models of nuclear facilities.” While its date would indicate that the accuracy of the plant is a far cry from what can be achieved today, and not specifically calling out Serious Games, the focus at least matches our goals of exploring the use of games. 5.5. Summary of Findings Table 5 summarizes the key findings highlighted by this study. 6. Discussion The review has shown that the separate studies of Serious Games and Virtual Reality go far back in history – to the 1960s for both Serious Games and for VR training. Large leaps forward in technology in the post-2000 era have exponentially improved the technology for producing realistic VR environments. Great improvements in the analysis and design have occurred using the Learning Mechanics/Game Mechanics model for Serious Games. Combining these two have shown significant success in the Health and Safety, and First Responder fields but less so in the Oil/ Chemical and Nuclear fields. It has been shown that success using Serious Games/ VR is possible for a wide age group while reinforcing that a younger workforce will naturally be more adept. [39][40] This is a somewhat surprising but welcome finding. It was also found that older players (40+) have different goals in playing video games than younger players. Thus, game designers must try to engage all demographics in their games. Generate AI may be a powerful tool for customizing gameplay tailored to the demographics of the player. Generate AI may also be a powerful tool for generating new levels of games, as Topic Academic Oil/Chemical Industry First Responder Health/Safety Nuclear Finding ⁃ Great uptake amongst younger employees ⁃ Professionals were more accepting of the technology compared to students. ⁃ Highly engaging and promote greater cognitive learning. ⁃ VR training is effective regardless of age or experience ⁃ Can collect information previously unavailable, or very hard or impossible to collect. ⁃ Training can be provided for environments where invisible hazards exist. ⁃ Cost-effective ⁃ Repetitive sessions improve abilities ⁃ Repetitive sessions are more easily accomplished. ⁃ Leveraging the experience of the gaming industry can help greatly Tab. 5. Summary of Findings Vol. 69 (2024)
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