{"title":"Construction site hazard recognition via mobile immersive virtual reality and eye tracking","authors":"Bekir Enes Özel , Mehmet Koray Pekeriçli","doi":"10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106080","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The perilousness of construction sites is well-known. The need for competent safety management is apparent as well. Although hazard recognition is crucial for safety management, studies show an alarmingly high portion of hazards are unrecognized in construction sites. This situation indicates that better methods are required to understand the process of hazard recognition more profoundly and to measure the hazard recognition skills of construction professionals. This paper deploys mobile immersive virtual reality, eye tracking, and real-time development platforms for hazard recognition research. The presented system, namely SafeGaze, offers a mobile, flexible, easy-to-use, and high-fidelity solution that is capable of gathering varied and precise data about the hazard recognition skills of construction professionals. The aimed contributions are providing an explicit framework for gathering and analyzing hazard recognition data, introducing mobile immersive virtual reality to the domain, and providing graphical optimization methods for the utilization of standalone head mounted displays in construction sites.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8660,"journal":{"name":"Automation in Construction","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 106080"},"PeriodicalIF":11.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Automation in Construction","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580525001207","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The perilousness of construction sites is well-known. The need for competent safety management is apparent as well. Although hazard recognition is crucial for safety management, studies show an alarmingly high portion of hazards are unrecognized in construction sites. This situation indicates that better methods are required to understand the process of hazard recognition more profoundly and to measure the hazard recognition skills of construction professionals. This paper deploys mobile immersive virtual reality, eye tracking, and real-time development platforms for hazard recognition research. The presented system, namely SafeGaze, offers a mobile, flexible, easy-to-use, and high-fidelity solution that is capable of gathering varied and precise data about the hazard recognition skills of construction professionals. The aimed contributions are providing an explicit framework for gathering and analyzing hazard recognition data, introducing mobile immersive virtual reality to the domain, and providing graphical optimization methods for the utilization of standalone head mounted displays in construction sites.
期刊介绍:
Automation in Construction is an international journal that focuses on publishing original research papers related to the use of Information Technologies in various aspects of the construction industry. The journal covers topics such as design, engineering, construction technologies, and the maintenance and management of constructed facilities.
The scope of Automation in Construction is extensive and covers all stages of the construction life cycle. This includes initial planning and design, construction of the facility, operation and maintenance, as well as the eventual dismantling and recycling of buildings and engineering structures.