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This experiments aim is to determine whether trainees differ in their emotional response to two different training environments. The two training environments were the real system (i.e. a truck with an attached trailer) and an advanced truck driving simulator. 52 experienced truck drivers were investigated with a standardized questionnaire. The task to be learned was a driving manoeuvre: reverse park a truck from one side of the street to the other. The questionnaire was filled out by the participants twice: at the beginning and at the end of the experiment. The results show similar responses for the two training environments except for the factor “pleasure”: there was an increase for the participants which trained in the simulator. The results of this experiment show that the emotional responses between participants which trained in a driving simulator are comparable to their counterparts trained in the real system.

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Comparison of the Emotional Response between Real World Environment and Simulation

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