Virtual Reality Serious Game for Musculoskeletal Disorder Prevention

摘要

Musculo Skeletal Disorders (MSDs) is the most common dis-ease in the workplaces causing disabilities and excessive costs to indus-tries, particularly in EU countries. Most of MSDs prevention programs have focused on a combination of interventions including training to change individual behaviors (such as awkward postures). However, little evidence proves that current training approach on awkward postures is efficient and can significantly reduce MSDs symptoms. Therefore, deal-ing with awkward postures and repetitive tasks is the real challenge for practitioners and manufacturers, knowing that the amount of risk expo-sure varies increasingly among workers depending on their attitude and expertise as well as on their strategy to perform the task. The progress in MSDs prevention might come through developing new tools that inform workers more efficiently on their gestures and postures. This paper pro-poses a potential Serious Game that immerses industrial workers using Virtual Reality and helps them recognize their strategy while performing tasks and trains them to find the most efficient and least risky tactics.