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Application of virtual reality for infrastructure management education in civil engineering
Education and Information Technologies ( IF 3.666 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 , DOI: 10.1007/s10639-021-10429-y
Farrukh Arif

The cultivation of understanding regarding civil engineering in students requires them to conceive things in a manner that allows for a comprehensive grasp of practical aspects in alignment with theoretical principles. This requirement is more robust when students are being taught the aspects of infrastructure management. Visualizing the core principles and elements of infrastructure management within a full-scale context is required for students to fully understand the various concepts that compose it. Technology intervention for generating an “enhanced visualization environment” can facilitate improvement in both the teaching and learning process. Virtual Reality (VR) is technology intervention that provides real-world like sensations to its users within a simulated setting, enabling them to safely entertain, learn, experiment, and feel. This paper presents a study on the application and assessment of using virtual reality for infrastructure management education in civil engineering. A bridge inspection module was designed for a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) based system called “Projection VR”, installed at the NED University Virtual Reality Center (NED VRC). Test sessions were designed to experiment with and measure the effectiveness of VR through feedback. This involved a group of 69 senior-year undergraduate students as subjects enrolled in a course on structural design and drawing. Feedback was taken through structured rubrics-based assessments. The results showed that subjects demonstrated a higher capacity for concentration in VR environments and found the VR experience to be easy to use, proximate, comfortable, and extremely captivating. More exposure and practice with VR can positively enhance students’ experience. A limitation to the study presented in the paper is that for real-world situations, where damaged components of structures are often hidden, there will be need for a different modeling mechanism in order to capture such damages. Models generated through Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) scanning can serve to compensate for the limitation.



中文翻译:

虚拟现实在土木工程基础设施管理教育中的应用

培养学生对土木工程的理解要求他们以一种可以使理论与理论相结合的方式全面理解实践方面的方式构思事物。在向学生教授基础架构管理方面的要求时,这一要求会更加严格。为了使学生充分了解构成基础架构管理的核心原理和元素,需要全面了解。用于生成“增强的可视化环境”的技术干预可以促进教学过程的改进。虚拟现实(VR)是一项技术干预措施,可在模拟环境中向用户提供真实世界的感觉,使他们能够安全地进行娱乐,学习,实验和感受。本文介绍了将虚拟现实技术应用于土木工程基础设施管理教育中的应用和评估。桥检查模块是为安装在NED大学虚拟现实中心(NED VRC)上的基于洞穴自动虚拟环境(CAVE)的系统“ Projection VR”设计的。测试会议旨在通过反馈来测试和衡量VR的有效性。这涉及一组69名高年级本科生,他们参加了结构设计和制图课程。通过基于结构的评价评估获得了反馈。结果表明,受试者在VR环境中表现出更高的专注力,并发现VR体验易于使用,接近,舒适且极具吸引力。通过VR进行更多的曝光和练习可以积极地提高学生的体验。本文提出的研究的局限性在于,对于现实世界中经常隐藏结构的受损组件的情况,将需要一种不同的建模机制来捕获此类损坏。通过光检测和测距(LIDAR)扫描生成的模型可以用来弥补这一限制。

更新日期:2021-01-18
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