Virtual reality by mobile smartphone: improving child pedestrian safety

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Teaching Pedestrian Safety

Sixty percent to 70% of pedestrian injuries in children under the age of 10 years are the result of the child either improperly crossing intersections or dashing out in the street between intersections. The purpose of this injury prevention research study was to evaluate a desktop virtual reality (VR) program that was designed to educate and train children to safely cross intersections. Specifi...

Mobile Virtual Reality — An Approach for Safety Management

Reality & Virtual Reality in Mobile Robotics

This paper advocates the application of VRML in the visualisation of social robotic behaviour. We present the Virtual Reality Workbench, which via the Social Robot Architecture integrates the key elements of Virtual Reality and robotics in a coherent and systematic manner. To support this, we deliver a development environment, Agent Factory, which facilitates rapid prototyping and visualisation...

Mobile telephones, distracted attention, and pedestrian safety.

Driver distraction is a major cause of traffic accidents, with mobile telephones as a key source of distraction. In two studies, we examined distraction of pedestrians associated with mobile phone use. The first had 60 participants walk along a prescribed route, with half of them conversing on a mobile phone, and the other half holding the phone awaiting a potential call, which never came. Comp...

SonicWalker: Virtual Reality Simulation of Non-Visual Pedestrian City Navigation

Virtual reality has been used to bring people into isolated environments that either mimic the real world or abstract worlds. This game demo presents SonicWalker, a virtual reality based city that places the participant into the environment of a person who is blind. The participant is required to navigate city streets without using any vision relying only on 3D audio.