Warnings inform persons at risk about hazards and promote a safe behavior. For a warning
to achieve its purpose it is essential that it is effective. Virtual Reality can be assumed as the …

Warnings are a very important method to control hazards and to promote safety. Despite its
importance, warnings have important gaps that limit their validity and make its design so …

Safety-sign and warning effectiveness depends on a series of events. Several cognitive
models have been proposed to explain how the processes occur (eg, Lehto and Miller …

The effectiveness of safety warnings is measured by user's behavior compliance. Although
compliance is an important component in determining the success of a warning, its study …

Behavioral compliance is usually considered the best measure of warning effectiveness.
Researching behavioral effects is difficult to carry out, however, due to concerns for safety …

The construction industry is one of the most hazardous industries in New Zealand,
historically having high worker injury and fatality rates compared to other industries. These …

Recent researches suggest that Virtual Reality (VR) is amongst the best tools for examining
behavioral compliance with warnings, therefore overcoming some ethical and …

An effective warning attracts attention, elicits knowledge, and enables compliance behavior.
Game mechanics, which are directly linked to human desires, stand out as training …

Conventional safety training in industries mostly comprises of unidirectional flow of
information. Since most of the employees involved in such training are not learning actively …

Nowadays, unexpected situations in public spaces are quite frequent; for this reason, there
is the need to provide valid decision-making tools to support people's behavior in …