Assessing knowledge retention of an immersive serious game vs. A traditional education method in aviation safety

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 529-538

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Buttussi, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

aviation safety; Immersive VR; knowledge retention; physiological measurements; serious games; user evaluation

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; EDUCATION; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

AVIATION SAFETY; IMMERSIVE VR; KNOWLEDGE RETENTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT; SERIOUS GAMES; USER EVALUATIONS;

SAFETY FACTOR;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; AVIATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS; VIDEO GAME;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; AVIATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84922462338     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2015.2391853     Document Type: Article

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