There is an immediate need to develop technologies that can precisely capture the emergence and trajectory of peoples’ resilience in high-risk industries. Despite government efforts, high risk industries such as construction continue to lead work-related harm and fatalities. The integration of psychophysiological monitoring with virtual reality (VR) makes it possible to document an individual’s experiences as they interact in simulations of real-world contexts. However, conventional psychophysiological-VR systems are constrained to measuring limited features of behaviour in fixed VR environments. This project will develop a VR simulation of health and safety situations that can be experienced and engaged with by professionals working in the construction industry. A range of psychophysiological measures will be captured from the professional within the VR environment to help identify the most effective set of sensors and measures to identify a person’s risk resilience. Ethics approval is already in place for this project for 2024.
Undergraduate
You will develop a new psychophysiological-VR integrated system that can generate endless variations of dynamic simulated ‘real-world’ construction environments that will allow us to capture psychophysiological indicators of the emergence and trajectory of individuals’ risk resilience that better represent their behaviour in real world health and safety training in construction situations.
SOFTENG 350 would be beneficial as a start to the project.
HCI Lab (303.521, Lab)