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Using Immersive Storytelling to Improve Engagement and Motivation During Fall Prevention Training
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September 2023
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Description:Construction continues to have one of the highest rates of injuries and fatalities of any industry in the U.S. Fall accidents are the leading cause of fatalities in construction, particularly in the residential sector. Construction employers often use training programs to try to reduce falls, but current programs often produce low engagement and motivation among trainees. To improve engagement and motivation, this project developed fall hazard training for residential construction featuring immersive storytelling. A study was developed to assess how the inclusion of storytelling-driven narratives affects safety training engagement and motivation. A between subject experimental design with two training approaches: 1) virtual human storytelling-driven narratives and 2) non-storytelling narratives – was employed to evaluate trainee engagement and motivation. Data was collected using behavioral eye-tracking metrics, a hazard identification survey, and self-efficacy and motivation questionnaires. While it was found that no significant statistical differences were detected in the cognitive and emotional dimensions of engagement and motivation, the behavioral dimension benefited how workers' attention was directed in some fall hazard scenarios.
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SS2023-immersive_storytelling_fall_prevention.pdf
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Pages in Document:24 numbered pages
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NIOSHTIC Number:nn:20068874
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