TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual Reality Application to Teach Dangerous Over Exposure to UV Radiation
AU - Vargas-Solís, Edgard
AU - Cárdenas-Salas, Daniel
AU - Gutierrez-Cardenas, Juan
AU - Romero-Romero, Vilma S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in Peru constitute a risk for the population, that does not give it the importance that it should and does not take adequate measures to protect against it and to prevent skin injuries. This research aims to educate the general population about the high radiation levels registered in our country. To accomplish this objective, a virtual reality application was developed to visualize real time UV index, the maximum exposition time before getting a sunburn according to the user’s skin type, the potential skin damage, and, lastly, it provides a Solar Protection Factor (SPF) recommendation. To validate the research, a survey was applied to 63 participants, who were mostly between 18 and 24 years old, in two parts: the first part (knowledge segment) was applied before the simulation took place in order to analyze the user’s knowledge level about the subject; and the second part (application segment) measured how valuable the application was in terms of education, usability and appeal. The survey results (p < 0.001) indicate that most of the participants do not know or are indifferent to high UV radiation (knowledge segment), and that the virtual reality application educated the participants about the UV radiation problem (application segment, education component). There is evidence that virtual reality can be an effective method to teach people about a problem, being part of it, and observe the consequences.
AB - The high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in Peru constitute a risk for the population, that does not give it the importance that it should and does not take adequate measures to protect against it and to prevent skin injuries. This research aims to educate the general population about the high radiation levels registered in our country. To accomplish this objective, a virtual reality application was developed to visualize real time UV index, the maximum exposition time before getting a sunburn according to the user’s skin type, the potential skin damage, and, lastly, it provides a Solar Protection Factor (SPF) recommendation. To validate the research, a survey was applied to 63 participants, who were mostly between 18 and 24 years old, in two parts: the first part (knowledge segment) was applied before the simulation took place in order to analyze the user’s knowledge level about the subject; and the second part (application segment) measured how valuable the application was in terms of education, usability and appeal. The survey results (p < 0.001) indicate that most of the participants do not know or are indifferent to high UV radiation (knowledge segment), and that the virtual reality application educated the participants about the UV radiation problem (application segment, education component). There is evidence that virtual reality can be an effective method to teach people about a problem, being part of it, and observe the consequences.
KW - Fitzpatrick
KW - Minimal erythema doses
KW - UV index
KW - Virtual reality
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/11923
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096480564&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c1f76e73-a9a9-37c1-aa57-537a864b4c85/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63092-8_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63092-8_7
M3 - Articulo (Contribución a conferencia)
AN - SCOPUS:85096480564
SN - 9783030630911
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 100
EP - 112
BT - Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference, FTC 2020, Volume 3
A2 - Arai, Kohei
A2 - Kapoor, Supriya
A2 - Bhatia, Rahul
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Future Technologies Conference, FTC 2020
Y2 - 5 November 2020 through 6 November 2020
ER -