Title
Evaluating Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality Training For Industrial Maintenance And Assembly Tasks
Abstract
The current study evaluated the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) platforms, developed within the scope of the SKILLS Integrated Project, for industrial maintenance and assembly (IMA) tasks training. VR and AR systems are now widely regarded as promising training platforms for complex and highly demanding IMA tasks. However, there is a need to empirically evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness compared to traditional training methods. Forty expert technicians were randomly assigned to four training groups in an electronic actuator assembly task: VR (training with the VR platform twice), Control-VR (watching a filmed demonstration twice), AR (training with the AR platform once), and Control-AR (training with the real actuator and the aid of a filmed demonstration once). A post-training test evaluated performance in the real task. Results demonstrate that, in general, the VR and AR training groups required longer training time compared to the Control-VR and Control-AR groups, respectively. There were fewer unsolved errors in the AR group compared to the Control-AR group, and no significant differences in final performance between the VR and Control-VR groups, probably due to a ceiling effect created by the use of two training trials in the selected task for participants who were expert technicians. The results suggest that use of the AR platform for training IMA tasks should be encouraged and use of the VR platform for that purpose should be further evaluated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1080/10494820.2013.815221
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Keywords
Field
DocType
interactive learning environments, multimedia/hypermedia systems, virtual reality, augmented reality
Virtual reality,Computer science,Augmented reality,Human–computer interaction,Teaching method,Likert scale,Multimedia,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
6
1049-4820
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
45
2.00
24
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nirit Gavish1976.32
Teresa Gutierrez2492.46
Sabine Webel314010.90
Jorge Rodríguez4544.47
Matteo Peveri5452.00
Uli Bockholt6945.15
Franco Tecchia7452.00