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This article describes the development of a virtual reality application that allows the application of psychometric tests to drivers, both professional and non-professional, who obtain their driver’s license for the first time or are in the process of renewing or changing the category of their license; these implemented evaluations are aimed at measuring the reactions of drivers, as various audio-visual stimuli are applied in a more user-friendly manner. These implemented tests were developed in function of the traditional tests, that is to say complying with the objectives to be measured and evaluated; these evaluations have been developed with a Unity 3D graphic engine able to simulate the practical driving tests, to obtain results a numerical calculation software is used that presents graphs and statistics of the results obtained. The application is very attractive and allows users to perform their evaluations in a way that is close to reality, the tasks to be developed are performed with equipment that are very common for the user such as the steering wheel and pedals.
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The authors would like to thank the Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y Academia – CEDIA for the financing given to research, development, and innovation, through the Grupos de Trabajo, GT, especially to the GT- eTURISMO; also to Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Univer-sidad Técnica de Ambato, Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo, and Grupo de Investigación ARSI, for the support to develop this work.
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Sánchez, J.S. et al. (2019). Virtual Simulator for the Taking and Evaluation of Psychometric Tests to Obtain a Driver’s License. In: De Paolis, L., Bourdot, P. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11613. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25965-5_11
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