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by Reinout Wiltenburg SciProfilesScilitPreprints.orgGoogle Scholar Frida Ruiz Mendoza SciProfilesScilitPreprints.orgGoogle Scholar William Hurst SciProfilesScilitPreprints.orgGoogle Scholar Dr. William Hurst is an Associate Professor in Data Science and Extended Realities in the Technology[...] Read more Bedir Tekinerdogan SciProfilesScilitPreprints.orgGoogle Scholar Prof. Dr. Bedir Tekinerdogan is a computer scientist with over 25 years of experience in engineering[...] Read more
Reinout WiltenburgFrida Ruiz Mendoza
William Hurst
and Bedir Tekinerdogan
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Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, GAIA Building (101), P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Information Technology Group, Wageningen University and Research, Building No. 201 (Leeuwenborch), Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(9), 3595; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
Submission received: 25 March 2024/Revised: 16 April 2024/Accepted: 17 April 2024/Published: 24 April 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Research on Digital Reality)
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The notion of the smart city involves embedding Industry 4.0 technologies to improve the lives of inhabitants in urban environments. Within this context, smart city data layers (SCDLs) concern the integration of extra tiers of information for the purposes of improving communication potential. Under the Industry 4.0 technology grouping, advanced communication technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), further the opportunities to model, recreate, evaluate and communicate scenarios that potentially improve citizens lives at multiple SCDL scales in a smart cities context. The use of added contextual information in SCDLs is of special interest for emergency planning situations at the building scale. In this research, a literature review to understand the current approaches for the use, development and evaluation of VR applications in the context of emergency planning was conducted. The results indicated four main categories of relevant challenges for these types of applications, for which recommendations and a roadmap for VR development are presented. In total, the study identified 10 commonly occurring challenges (e.g., optimization and discomfort) and 19 solution directions (e.g., model construction and spatial directions) in related articles when considering the development of VR for spatial planning and emergency situations.
Keywords: virtual reality; spatial planning; emergency situations
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Wiltenburg, R.; Mendoza, F.R.; Hurst, W.; Tekinerdogan, B.Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 3595.https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
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Wiltenburg R, Mendoza FR, Hurst W, Tekinerdogan B.Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(9):3595.https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
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Wiltenburg, Reinout, Frida Ruiz Mendoza, William Hurst, and Bedir Tekinerdogan.2024. "Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions" Applied Sciences 14, no. 9: 3595.https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
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Wiltenburg, R.; Mendoza, F.R.; Hurst, W.; Tekinerdogan, B.Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 3595.https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
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Wiltenburg R, Mendoza FR, Hurst W, Tekinerdogan B.Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions. Applied Sciences. 2024; 14(9):3595.https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
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Wiltenburg, Reinout, Frida Ruiz Mendoza, William Hurst, and Bedir Tekinerdogan.2024. "Virtual Reality for Spatial Planning and Emergency Situations: Challenges and Solution Directions" Applied Sciences 14, no. 9: 3595.https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093595
Note that from the first issue of 2016, this journal uses article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
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