To assess the acceptance of urban air vehicles by the general public, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is conducting a study with a mixed reality air taxi cabin simulator. This simulator needed a user interface (UI), that visualizes information to increase the passengers’ feeling of safety. The competition …

VSTEP is a software development company that specializes in creating simulators for realistic virtual safety training. During my graduation period, I was assigned to work as a graphics programmer intern on environmental and nighttime effects in the company’s ship simulator NAUTIS. In the current version …

Strukton Rail wants to try new training methods for their employees by creating a virtual reality simulation where the workers can practice in a safe environment. Strukton employees have to do maintenance work in heights in the rail track. Besides the risks related to the actual job of working in heights, …

Strukton Rail is interested in facilitating training and increasing employee safety awareness through a VR simulation. In this paper it is discussed in how far audio can be used in order to increase the immersion of the simulation. Besides the well-known means of spatial audio, there are other means …

As Strukton Rail faces absence under employees that work on railroad construction sites, a change must be made. Part of this absence is caused by occupational accidents. With modern-day technology, Strukton Rail would like to explore the possibilities of a virtual reality training simulator to increase …

This paper describes a demo for the Persuasive Conference 2014 (21-23 May, Padua, Italy) which shows the result of a design project in the edutainment field. The tries to raise safety awareness among construction site workers. The purpose of the demo is to raise safety awareness amongst construction …

Er is geen invulling van het E-learning platform en de Serious Games voor de leerlijn beveiliging. Op dit moment wordt er invulling gegeven aan de inhoud van een niveau 4 opleiding. Voor de bestaande niveaus 2, 3 en 5 zijn er nog geen Serious Games ontwikkeld op basis van lesstof. Het ontbreken van een …

De opdracht die in dit verslag beschreven wordt, richt zich op het ontwikkelen van een e-learning module met Serious Game elementen voor de opleiding Coördinator Beveiliger, MBO niveau 3. Door middel van deze digitale leeromgeving moeten studenten leerdoelen en competenties kunnen behalen.

Purpose Worldwide, there are 30 million people with dementia (PWD) in 2009 and 100 million in 2050, respectively.These numbers show the need for a change in care for PWD. Leisure is one of these care aspects. Leisure activities can support PWD in several ways: meeting basic needs, providing comfort and …