ViSTREET: An Educational Virtual Environment for the Teaching of Road Safety Skills to School Students
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...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36551/1/Chuah%20Kee%20Man.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36551/ |
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| Summary: | 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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