Peer Effects on Safety and Productivity in a Simulated Workplace Through Usability and Ecological Validity Testing of a Nonimmersive Virtual Simulation With University Students: Cross-Sectional Qualitative Study
Chukwudiebube Atagbuzia, Ean H Ng, Ganapathy Natarajan, Javier Calvo-Amodio, Zlata Goleva, Stefano Brini, Canlong Liu, Tom Baranowski · 2026
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Chukwudiebube Atagbuzia and colleagues built a screen-based workplace simulation to study how seeing coworkers' scores changes safety and output. The simulation avoids full virtual reality headsets, so it runs on ordinary computers for wider testing.
Students played timed meal-preparation tasks with built-in safety rules and feedback comparing them with virtual peers. In the first round, twelve students found the written instructions unclear, the setting unreal, and the peer scores hard to believe. After fixes such as hands-on training, believable peer scores, and clearer peer labels, the second group responded better. They reported clearer guidance, greater realism, and peer comparisons that actually pushed them, Atagbuzia reports.
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| CREATOR | Chukwudiebube Atagbuzia, Ean H Ng, Ganapathy Natarajan, Javier Calvo-Amodio, Zlata Goleva, Stefano Brini, Canlong Liu, Tom Baranowski |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |