Improving First-Aid Training with Virtual Reality
first-aiders. The ARRIVE project (Acquiring the rescue chain in virtual reality), which Professor Björn Niehaves has been working on since January 2023 at the University of Bremen, picks up on these factors. Together [...] “So far, there are hardly any VR scenarios that can be used to train first aid,” explains Björn Niehaves. Moreover, these scenarios have so far not focused on the entire rescue chain, but only on individual [...] aspects such as resuscitating injured persons. External stressors are ignored. As a first step, Björn Niehaves and his team identified stressors such as time pressure and traffic noise, which often occur in