PARS: Using Augmented Panoramas of Reality for Construction Safety Training

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• Personal Author:
  Esmaeili B ; Gheisari, Masoud
• Description:
  Virtual reality (VR)-based approaches have been used to facilitate safety knowledge transfer and increase hazard awareness by providing safe and controlled experiences of unsafe scenarios for construction safety training applications. However, high computational costs, long development times, and the limited sense of presence and realism associated with existing VR methods have posed significant challenges to using such VR-based safety training platforms. Unlike the VR environments that provide unrealistic computer-generated simulations of the environment, 360-degree panoramas can create highly realistic and detailed simulations of environments while giving users a high sense of presence. In this project we developed and validated PARS (PAnoramas of Reality for Safety), as a hazard-identification training tool based on panoramas of reality, which enables learners to navigate, observe, and identify hazards in the complex context of real construction sites. A comparative experiment between VR and PARS was also conducted to assess their capabilities for hazard identification purposes. Key Research Factors and Finding: 1. PARS (PAnoramas of Reality for Safety), provide a low-cost, simple-to-capture representation of real settings and create unbroken views of a whole region surrounding an observer, thereby allowing for an interactive look-around experience of a real jobsite with a strong sense of presence. 2. Virtual reality (VR) is more computationally intensive and requires more time to create a representation of a real construction jobsite than PARS. 3. VR provides a clear and simple representation of reality which makes hazard identification simpler comparing to PARS. 4. PARS provides a true-to-life representation of reality which makes hazard identification harder comparing to VR. 5. VR is "cleaner" than PARS, which makes VR easier to identify hazards but does not provide a realistic or relatable environment as PARS does. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Environment Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Computerized Simulation Construction Construction Industry Construction Workers Cost Reduction Costs Environmental Factors Hazard Identification Hazard Recognition Industrial Safety Occupational Hazards Performance Capability Performance Tests Safety Education Safety Research Simulation Methods Technology Transfer Training Virtual Reality Visual Fields Visual Images Work Environment

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-19
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20055388
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2019 Jan; :1-19
• Contact Point Address:
  Masoud Gheisari, Ph.D., Rinker School of Construction Management, College of Design, Construction, and Planning, University of Florida, 322 Rinker Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611
• Email:
  masoud@ufl.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  PARS: using augmented panoramas of reality for construction safety training
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3ae0e1813957a127e60dc5c66e343c5a030fbb0c120c5b04f224ef9ce73b4fa7c2e976812b96b7b6f4f819e272bb2924e92895db838a17333416723a007ec127
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213257/cdc_213257_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.24 MB ]