Introduction The professional training provided to low qualified workers within industries with high psychosocial risk is often limited to the mere development of technical skills. Moreover, training in such industries can also be restricted, since equipment is expensive and mistakes can be…
The long anticipated and final project output, RISKREAL’s Virtual Reality Simulator is freely available and can be downloaded through the Website’s Outputs Page. This digital tool is dedicated to the acquisition of psychosocial skills and allows for the better training…
The RISKREAL consortium’s reunion in sunny Sicily On Tuesday, July 4th, the partnership members of the RISKReal project gathered in Catania (Sicily, Italy) in order to hold the project’s Final Conference for the tools and resources that have been in…
CASE STUDY OVERVIEW: Location: Abuela Santa Ana Wind Farm, Albacete, Spain WGT Type: GE 1.5 MW- Height of 85 meters Task Description: Safety Inspection Workers Assigned to the Task: 1 Experienced Specialist Technician (author) and 1 Support Technician (hereafter referred…
Physiological user data provides objective information about his/her mood and behaviour. In recent years, the combination of immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) and biosensors has become increasingly used. iVR creates a strong sense of immersion that makes the user feel the…
Success and proficiency in the working environment does not depend only from technical competencies of workers. Non-technical skills (also called “soft” skills or “transversal”), in fact, play a major role in the productivity of a worker, in particular if working…
The “novelty effect” appears when anybody faces to a new experience, such as the interaction with Virtual Reality (VR) environment. Nowadays, Virtual Reality stands out in education and training like a very promising tool. To assure the successful use of…