An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children.
Virtual reality (VR) has been prevalently used as a tool to help students learn and to simulate situations that are too hazardous to practice in real life. The present study aims to explore the capability of VR to achieve these two purposes and demonstrate a novel application of the result, using VR...
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| author | Chuah, Kee-Man Chen, Chwen Jen Teh, Chee Siong |
| author_facet | Chuah, Kee-Man Chen, Chwen Jen Teh, Chee Siong |
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| description | Virtual reality (VR) has been prevalently used as a tool to help students learn and to simulate situations that are too hazardous to practice in real life. The present study aims to explore the capability of VR to achieve these two purposes and demonstrate a novel application of the result, using VR to help school students learn about road safety skills, which are impractical to be carried out in real-life situations. This paper describes the system design of the VR-based learning environment known as Virtual Simulated Traffics for Road Safety Education (ViSTREET) and its various features. An overview of the technical procedures for its development is also included. Ultimately, this paper highlights the potential use of VR in addressing the learning problem concerning road safety education programme in Malaysia. |
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| spelling | unimas-99892016-01-05T02:20:52Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9989/ An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. Chuah, Kee-Man Chen, Chwen Jen Teh, Chee Siong L Education (General) T Technology (General) Virtual reality (VR) has been prevalently used as a tool to help students learn and to simulate situations that are too hazardous to practice in real life. The present study aims to explore the capability of VR to achieve these two purposes and demonstrate a novel application of the result, using VR to help school students learn about road safety skills, which are impractical to be carried out in real-life situations. This paper describes the system design of the VR-based learning environment known as Virtual Simulated Traffics for Road Safety Education (ViSTREET) and its various features. An overview of the technical procedures for its development is also included. Ultimately, this paper highlights the potential use of VR in addressing the learning problem concerning road safety education programme in Malaysia. 2009 Proceeding PeerReviewed Chuah, Kee-Man and Chen, Chwen Jen and Teh, Chee Siong (2009) An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. In: An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. In H. B. Zaman, P. Robinson, M. Petrou, P. Oliver, H. Schröder, & T. K. Shih (Eds.), Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice First International Visua. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-05036-7_37 |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) T Technology (General) Chuah, Kee-Man Chen, Chwen Jen Teh, Chee Siong An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| title | An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| title_full | An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| title_fullStr | An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| title_full_unstemmed | An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| title_short | An educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| title_sort | educational virtual environment for the teaching of road safety skills to school children. |
| topic | L Education (General) T Technology (General) |
| url | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9989/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/9989/ |