Mobile Simulator for Risk Analysis

Abstract

The occurrence of accidents in the workplace generates huge losses related to the human safety and the financial costs involved. Thus, large companies have been investing in the development of tools that help both the risk perception and training of workers in their basic tasks. This paper presents the development of an immersive simulator and its application for risk analysis. The unique feature of our simulator is that it runs on a regular smartphone coupled to a physical plug-in designed to allow immersive stereo viewing. The system usability was tested with user experiments, being well received. This design provides low cost and excellent scalability as it is based on self owned devices and off-the-shelf add-ons.