Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments: A Tool for Improving Occupational Safety and Health

Virtual reality (VR) techniques are becoming increasingly popular.The use of computer modeling and visualization is no longer uncommon in the area of ergonomics and occupational health and safety. This book explains how studies conducted in a simulated virtual world are making it possible to test new solutions for designed workstations, offering a high degree of ease for introducing modifications and eliminating risk and work-related accidents. Virtual reality techniques offer a wide range of possibilities including increasing the cognitive abilities of the elderly, adapting workstations for people with disabilities and special needs, and remote control of machines using collaborative robots. Detailed discussions include: Testing protective devices, safety systems, and the numerical reconstruction of work accidents Using computer simulation in generic virtual environments On the one hand, it is a self-study book made so by well-crafted and numerous examples. On the other hand, through a detailed analysis of the virtual reality from a point of view of work safety and ergonomics and health improvement. Ewa Grabska, Jagiellonian University, Krak�w, Poland Noteworthy is the broad scope and diversity of the addressed problems, ranging from training employees using VR environments with different degrees of perceived reality; training and rehabilitation of the elderly; to designing, testing, modifying, and adapting workplaces to various needs including those of disabled workers; to simulation and investigation of the cause of accidents at a workplace. Andrzej Krawiecki, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Additional ISBNs100304851X, 0367489945, 0367500167, 9781003048510, 9780367489946, 9780367500160Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments: A Tool for Improving Occupational Safety and Health 1st Edition is written by Andrzej Grabowski and published by CRC Press. ISBNs for Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments are 9781000077292, 1000077292 and the print ISBNs are 9780367489946, 0367489945. Additional ISBNs include 100304851X, 0367489945, 0367500167, 9781003048510, 9780367489946, 9780367500160.