User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing

Dr Alex Egaji; Ikram Asghar; Luke Dando; Mark Griffiths; Emma Dymond

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-6369-7_16

User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing

Dr Alex Egaji, Ikram Asghar, Luke Dando, Mark Griffiths, Emma Dymond

Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science

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Abstract

The railway is one of the safest modes of transport all over the world. However, there are safety concerns for pedestrians and other road users as some of these railways can pass through smaller towns. As a potential technological solution, this study utilised a virtual reality (VR) application to train pedestrians on essential safety skills required to cross a level crossing safely. It builds on the previous work to evaluate the user acceptance of an educational VR railway level crossing application utilising the system usability scale (SUS) and sense of presence (SoP) questionnaire. Overall, the SUS score decreases with age, while the sense of presence score increases with age.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Sustainable Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Selected Papers of WorldS4 2021, Volume 2
Editors	Atulya K. Nagar, Dharm Singh Jat, Gabriela Marín-Raventós, Durgesh Kumar Mishra
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	177
Number of pages	190
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-16-6369-7
ISBN (Print)	978-981-16-6368-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6369-7_16
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Publisher	Springer
Volume	334
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Keywords

Virtual reality
Safety training
Railway level crossing
System usability
Sense of presence
User experience

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Egaji, D. A., Asghar, I., Dando, L., Griffiths, M., & Dymond, E. (2021). User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing. In A. K. Nagar, D. S. Jat, G. Marín-Raventós, & D. K. Mishra (Eds.), Intelligent Sustainable Systems: Selected Papers of WorldS4 2021, Volume 2 (pp. 177). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 334). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6369-7_16

Egaji, Dr Alex ; Asghar, Ikram ; Dando, Luke et al. / User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing. Intelligent Sustainable Systems: Selected Papers of WorldS4 2021, Volume 2. editor / Atulya K. Nagar ; Dharm Singh Jat ; Gabriela Marín-Raventós ; Durgesh Kumar Mishra. Singapore : Springer, 2021. pp. 177 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Egaji, DA, Asghar, I, Dando, L, Griffiths, M & Dymond, E 2021, User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing. in AK Nagar, DS Jat, G Marín-Raventós & DK Mishra (eds), Intelligent Sustainable Systems: Selected Papers of WorldS4 2021, Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 334, Springer, Singapore, pp. 177. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6369-7_16

User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing. / Egaji, Dr Alex; Asghar, Ikram; Dando, Luke et al.
Intelligent Sustainable Systems: Selected Papers of WorldS4 2021, Volume 2. ed. / Atulya K. Nagar; Dharm Singh Jat; Gabriela Marín-Raventós; Durgesh Kumar Mishra. Singapore: Springer, 2021. p. 177 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 334).

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Egaji DA, Asghar I, Dando L, Griffiths M, Dymond E. User Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Application for Safety Training in Railway Level Crossing. In Nagar AK, Jat DS, Marín-Raventós G, Mishra DK, editors, Intelligent Sustainable Systems: Selected Papers of WorldS4 2021, Volume 2. Singapore: Springer. 2021. p. 177. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-6369-7_16

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