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ISVC 2015: Advances in Visual Computing pp 797–808Cite as

Innovative Virtual Reality Application for Road Safety Education of Children in Urban Areas

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In order to make children develop good safety habits on the streets, it is very important to educate them on this subject at an early age. The technological advancements allow the creation of applications for training assistance and support. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are some of the best suitable scientific domains for successful training applications. In this paper, we present an innovative application for child risk prevention and education in urban are as; this one is based on a collaborative Research & Technologies platform which refers to the dynamic simulation of a city containing artificial intelligence and behavior modeling for pedestrians, crowds, vehicles and traffic in 3D visual and audio environment. We propose an interactive scenario for child risk education and prevention. We experiment it in an autonomous city (Paris) represented in a virtual environment and including artificial intelligence. This scenario takes into account the social implication and the relation between real and virtual actors.

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Notes

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    “Permis Piéton” (pedestrian License) campaign: http://www.permispieton.com

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    “Permis Piéton” (pedestrian License) game: http://www.permispieton.com/jeu4.php

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    Second life: http://secondlife.com/

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    Legion: http://legion.com

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    Aimsun: http://www.aimsun.com/wp/

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    Quadstone Paramics: http://www.pedestriansimulation.com/highlights_analytics.php

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    www.pedestrians.tudelft.nl

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    CATT Lab: http://www.cattlab.umd.edu/

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    Davi: http://www.davi.fr/

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    Artracking: http://www.artracking.com/home/

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    Infitec: http://www.infitec.net/index.php/en/

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    Kinect: http://www.microsoft.com/enus/kinectforwindows/

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    Futur en Seine: http://www.futurenseine.fr/fens2013/en/

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  1. U2IS, Ensta ParisTech, Palaiseau, France

    Taha Ridene

  2. Paris 8 University, Saint-Denis, France

    Laure Leroy & Safwan Chendeb

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

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  6. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

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  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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  8. Side Effects Software, Santa Monica, California, USA

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  9. The DiVE, Durham, North Carolina, USA

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  10. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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  11. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

    Zhao Ye

  12. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Gunther Weber

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Ridene, T., Leroy, L., Chendeb, S. (2015). Innovative Virtual Reality Application for Road Safety Education of Children in Urban Areas. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9475. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27863-6_75

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