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Development of VR-Based Safety Education Content for Sailors

VR 기반 선원 안전교육용 콘텐츠 개발

  • Kim, Ji-Yoon (Content AI Convergence Research Institute, ROMANTIQUE) ;
  • Oh, Jin-Seok (Department of Maritime of Marine Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
  • Received : 2022.10.11
  • Accepted : 2022.11.22
  • Published : 2022.12.31

Abstract

Every year, many shipping companies provide seaman safety education programs periodically to reduce ocean-traffic accidents. However, undertaking the regular safety training for seaman has been difficult because of litimation of space and time. Recently, VR technolgy is received attentions to overcome previous problems. It can provide users educational interactions between a user and virtual environment and fulfill sustainable teaching. In this paper, VR-based safety education content for sailors has been developed, and it includes four programs. Also, survey was conducted with four questionnaires such as immersiveness, easy to experience, satisfaction of education contents, comparative evaluation between traditional education program and VR education contents. As the result, immersiveness questionnaire could be gain 53.83% positive assessment, and easy to experience could be gain 65.38% positive assessment, and satisfaction could be gain 69.23% positive assessment. Lastly, comparative evaluation between traditional education program and VR education contents could be gain about 46% positive and 34% neutral assessments.

매년 해양사고를 줄이고자 선원들에게 정기적인 안전교육이 제공된다. 그러나 물리적인 교육 공간의 한계로 일부 피교육자는 피교육자가 원하는 시점에 안전교육을 받지 못하는 문제가 발생한다. 최근 기존 교육방식의 문제점을 극복할 수 있는 기술로 VR 기술이 주목받고 있다. 몰입감의 향상을 위하여 가상환경과 사용자의 상호작용의 제공이 가능하고, 비대면 교육을 수행할 수 있기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 야간 등화식별 교육, 소형 및 중형 화제 교육, 컨테이너 퇴선 교육으로 구성된 VR 기반 선원 안전교육용 콘텐츠 개발을 수행하였다. 또한, 교육 효과를 정량적 평가하기 위하여 각 교육 콘텐츠의 체험 후 몰입감, 용이성, 기존 교육방식과의 비교 그리고 VR 교육 콘텐츠의 만족도에 대한 설문조사를 수행하였다. 설문조사 결과 몰입감은 53.83%의 긍정 평가를 받을 수 있었으며, 용이성은 65.38%의 긍정 평가를 받을 수 있었다. 그리고 기존 교육방식과의 비교 항목은 69.23%의 긍정 평가를 받을 수 있었다. 마지막으로 VR 교육 콘텐츠의 만족도 항목은 항목에선 약 46%의 긍정 평가를 얻었으며, 중립은 34%의 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

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Acknowledgement

This research was financially supported by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea and Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology(KIAT) through the National Innovation Cluster R&D program (Grant Number : P0015308)

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