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Virtual Reality for Safety, Entertainment or Education: The Mars Mission Test

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Advances in Applied Digital Human Modeling and Simulation

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A Virtual reality (VR) has many applications; the main ones are related to safety and performance, entertainment, and education. To increase safety and performance, VR may use, for example, simulation for training purposes or for improving the performance of the operator; in entertainment, it can be used to experience for fun new realities that are possible only virtually; and finally, in education, VR can be used to let the user learn in an immersive environment. This paper wants to open a debate on how to increase the trustworthiness of virtual reality in order to increase the number of possible applications in the field of safety.

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Thanks to all the person & institutions involved. For the images: Italian Mars Society.

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  1. Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Extreme-Design Research Group, Via Durando 38-a, 20100, Milan, Italy

    Irene Lia Schlacht

  2. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IFAB Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft und Betriebsorganisation, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Irene Lia Schlacht

  3. Italian Mars Society, Via Dalmine, 10/A, 24035, Curno, BG, Italy

    Antonio Del Mastro

  4. Training and Assessment Research Group (TARG), University College of Southeast Norway (HSN), Notodden, Norway

    Salman Nazir

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Correspondence to Irene Lia Schlacht .

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Vincent G. Duffy

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Schlacht, I.L., Del Mastro, A., Nazir, S. (2017). Virtual Reality for Safety, Entertainment or Education: The Mars Mission Test. In: Duffy, V. (eds) Advances in Applied Digital Human Modeling and Simulation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41627-4_8

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