“Safety in Chemistry Laboratories in VR” Project
20 de August de 2024
The “Safety in Chemistry Laboratories in VR” project is an immersive experience that we are developing for the Provençana Institute.
This project is based on the design and implementation of a Virtual Reality experience that puts chemistry students in common risk situations in the laboratory and that are difficult to recreate in real life. The users of the experience will be first-year students of the CFGM of Laboratory Operations, and first-year students of the CFGS of Analysis and Quality Control Laboratory.
This experience will be an experiential training complement to the safety training units in chemical laboratories already available at the center, and will help students identify the risks present in a chemical laboratory and act following the established protocols in cases of accidents in chemical laboratories.
When co-designing this experience, special attention will be devoted to conveying and modulating the role of different emotions such as fear, panic, blockage, anxiety/stress, assertiveness (being able to resolve the situation), relief, etc. that will occur during the experience and that play a very important role in the cognitive learning processes. These emotions make this type of training considerably increase content retention and the speed of learning.
