Using virtual reality to train children in safe street-crossing skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pedestrian injuries are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in middle childhood. One limitation to existing pedestrian safety interventions is that they do not provide children with repeated practice needed to develop the complex perceptual and cognitive skills required for safe street crossing. Virtual reality offers training through repeated unsupervised practice without risk, automated feedback on success of crossings, adjustment of traffic to match children's skill and a fun, appealing environment for training.

Objective

To test the efficacy of virtual reality to train child pedestrians in safe street crossing.

Setting

Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Methods

A randomised controlled trial is underway with an expected sample of four group

SUBMITTER: Schwebel DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2829738 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature