Towards augmented reality for corporate training

TL;DR

This systematic review analyzes the use of Augmented Reality in corporate training, highlighting its growing adoption, application areas, and technological approaches, while discussing current challenges and future research directions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of AR applications in corporate training, identifying research gaps, trends, and technological preferences from 60 selected studies.

Findings

High adoption in automotive and medical training

Predominant use of tablet and head-mounted displays

Significant recent growth in AR publications for training

Abstract

Corporate training relates to employees acquiring essential skills to operate equipment or effectively performing required tasks both competently and safely. Unlike formal education, training can be incorporated into the task workflow and performed during working hours. Increasingly, organizations adopt different technologies to develop both individual skills and improve their organization. Studies indicate that Augmented Reality (AR) is quickly becoming an effective technology for training programs. This systematic literature review (SLR) aims to screen works published on AR for corporate training. We describe AR training applications, discuss current challenges, literature gaps, opportunities, and tendencies of corporate AR solutions. We structured a protocol to define keywords, the semantics of research, and databases used as sources of this SLR. From a primary analysis, we considered 1952 articles in the review for qualitative synthesis. We selected 60 among the selected articles for this study. The survey shows a large number of 41.7% of applications focused on automotive and medical training. Additionally, 20% of selected publications use a camera-display with a tablet device, while 40% refer to head-mounted-displays, and many surveyed approaches (45%) adopt marker-based tracking. Results indicate that publications on AR for corporate training increased significantly in recent years. AR has been used in many areas, exhibiting high quality and provides viable approaches to On-The-Job training. Finally, we discuss future research issues related to increasing relevance regarding AR for corporate training.