Development of Innovative Building Education System Based on VR and Practical Exercises to Enhance Motivation for Learning

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K18526
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 9:Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Kokushikan University
• Principal Investigator: INDEN Tatsuya 国士舘大学, 理工学部, 准教授 (40434279)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-07-09 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: VR / 人工現実感 / 作業能率測定 / 生理的指標 / 脳波 / 心拍変動 / 学生製作 / RMSSD

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to create an educational method that motivates university students to study on their own. By combining the academic approaches of construction engineering and medical engineering, we developed a hybrid experiential educational material that makes full use of both virtual practice by VR and construction practice simulating a construction site.
As a result, it was found that the virtual experience of occupational accidents by the VR construction site simulator deepened safety education at construction sites. In addition, when nailing was compared between VR space and real space, no difference between them could be found in the work efficiency analysis. However, by introducing physiological indicators, trends such as the degree of concentration on work and tension-free work situations could be identified.

Free Research Field

建築材料施工

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今なお徒弟的な世界である建設現場の教育に対して，教場講義という“読む・聞く・見る”の間接的な学修には限界があり，建設現場で働く施工管理技術者の大半は，やむを得ず現場で改めて学び直し，自身の経験を通じて建設現場の施工管理能力を獲得しているのが現状である。このギャップを埋めるためには，在学中にいかに密度の高い経験を積めるかが鍵であり，従来適わなかった建設現場での学修をＶＲで実現しようとする試みは，大学生の学修意欲向上に留まらず，建築技術者や作業従事者などの建築生産人口減少に対する抜本的対策にもなり得る。