Extended Reality And Aviation Worker Training
Posted Date: Aug 18, 2025
- Investigator: Yevgen Nazarenko
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- Type of Study: Observational/Survey
Safety is critical in the aviation industry, and the creation of an unsafe working environment jeopardizes both passenger and worker health and safety. Human factors and errors are the main contributing factors in up to 75% of accidents in the aviation industry. Health and safety training offers the opportunity to impact aviation workers’ health and safety motivation as well as their attitudes, beliefs, and behavior surrounding safety. However, due to the ongoing prevalence of accidents, it is clear that current training practices are not sufficient. Extended reality (XR) emerges as a viable tool to assess the effectiveness of aviation worker health and safety training by evaluating the connection between focus, cognitive load, and workers’ attitudes and behaviors. Preliminary research in high-risk engineering environments has demonstrated that XR-mediated health and safety training improves workers’ job training satisfaction and retention of trained material. The impact of XR-mediated health and safety training on behavioral and organizational outcomes has not been determined. This study will investigate the impact of focus and cognitive load during health and safety training on occupational health and safety motivation, perceived safety culture, and job satisfaction among workers in the aviation industry. By characterizing these factors and describing their connection with engagement in an XR-mediated training environment, this study aims to demonstrate the potential positive effect of XR-mediated health and safety training on behavioral and organizational outcomes, filling the existing research gap. The results of this study will serve as an example of a use case for XR in aviation health and safety training. Beyond this, findings from this study may be used in developing regulations, guidelines, and policies surrounding the implementation of XR technology.
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Keywords:
Eye-Tracking, Occupational Health And Safety, Occupational Training
For More Information:
Hannah Louise Frame
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framehl@mail.uc.edu