Construction site hazard recognition via mobile immersive virtual reality and eye tracking

ÖZEL B. E., PEKERİÇLİ M. K.

AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION, cilt.173, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 173
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.autcon.2025.106080
  • Dergi Adı: AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, PASCAL, Aerospace Database, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, ICONDA Bibliographic, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.