Realidad virtual para la mejora de los procesos formativos de los trabajadores para la prevención de riesgos ergonómicos.

Abstract

Mental disorders and work related musculoskeletal disorders are the main causes of occupational disease and absenteeism. There are two basic ways for its reduction: the reengineering of the productive system and the training of the workers. Previous works showed that the use of new technologies in the teaching-learning processes substantially improves their results. Therefore, using new communication technologies and developing immersive and interactive contents can substantially improve the results. In this work we have compared different didactic media for the training of workers with several levels of immersiveness and interactivity. The results show that using new information and communication technologies in the formative processes of the workers, as well as developing contents with high immersion and interactivity, improve the teaching-learning processes, increasing the interest of the trained worker, their degree of apprehension of knowledge, and the transfer of these knowledge to the real work situation.