Teaching children pedestrian safety in virtual reality via smartphone: a noninferiority randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether child pedestrian safety training in a smartphone-based virtual reality (VR) environment is not inferior to training in a large, semi-immersive VR environment with demonstrated effectiveness.

Methods

Five hundred 7- and 8-year-old children participated; 479 were randomized to one of two conditions: Learning to cross streets in a smartphone-based VR or learning in a semi-immersive kiosk VR. The systems used identical virtual environments and scenarios. At baseline, children's pedestrian skills were assessed in both VR systems and through a vehicle approach estimation task (judging speed/distance of oncoming traffic on monitor). Training in both conditions comprised at least six 30-min sessions in the randomly assigned VR platform and continued for

SUBMITTER: Schwebel DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11175590 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature