Home // COGNITIVE 2023, The Fifteenth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications // View article

An Innovative Immersive Environment to Assess Non-Technical Skills: A Pilot Study

Authors:
Jerome Dinet
Anne Pignault
Beatrice Linot
Carole Battarel
Valerie Saint Dizier de Almeida
Franck Grayo
Pierre Chevrier

Keywords: virtual reality; human factors; behavioral science; human-computer interaction

Abstract:
Because non-technical skills are more and more important to improve safety in industry. Even if all existing assessment methods (e.g., simulated clinical scenarios, objective structured clinical examinations, and questionnaires or written assessments) provide interesting data, they present several limitations (weakness of their theoretical background, only based on subjective and individual data). The main goal of this paper is to present an innovative tool to assess non-technical skills, by using an immersive environment, allowing collection of quantitative and objective data for several individuals engaged in a collaborative and a complex cooperative task. Performances of the team, performances, verbalisation and behaviors of each participant/player are automatically recorded by the immersive system and a debriefing session was realized with all participants/players at the end of each game. Our results obtained with 35 participants tend to confirm that technology such as an immersive environment created by Virtual Rangers can offer a new and positive model for assessing non-technical skills. Finally, advantages of this iterative and incremental human-centered design are discussed in the domain of the assessment of non-technical skills.

Pages: 21 to 26

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: June 26, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-68558-046-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from June 26, 2023 to June 30, 2023