Innovative Virtual Reality Application for Road Safety Education of Children in Urban Areas

In order to make children develop good safety habits on the streets, it is very important to educate them on this subject at an early age. The technological advancements allow the creation of applications for training assistance and support. Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are some of the best suitable scientific domains for successful training applications. In this paper, we present an innovative application for child risk prevention and education in urban are as; this one is based on a collaborative Research & Technologies platform which refers to the dynamic simulation of a city containing artificial intelligence and behavior modeling for pedestrians, crowds, vehicles and traffic in 3D visual and audio environment. We propose an interactive scenario for child risk education and prevention. We experiment it in an autonomous city (Paris) represented in a virtual environment and including artificial intelligence. This scenario takes into account the social implication and the relation between real and virtual actors.