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Humulo (legally Humulo Engineering LLC, also trading as Humulo Virtual Reality and HumuloVR) is an American company based in Edgewater, Maryland, that develops virtual reality training software, mainly for workplace safety. It was founded in 2018.[1] Its software has been used in peer-reviewed studies of virtual reality instruction in medical, construction and engineering education.[2][3][4]
History
[edit]Humulo Engineering was founded in 2018 by Scott MacAdams, who is its chief executive.[1][5] In 2022 the trade publication Training Industry described it as a provider of enterprise virtual reality training and of information technology consulting services.[6] The Naval Air Systems Command Office of Small Business Programs lists the company as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business.[1]
Use in research
[edit]COVID-19 health worker training in Uganda
[edit]During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Infectious Diseases Institute of Makerere University in Uganda, working with staff of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, piloted virtual reality training in infection prevention and control for 52 frontline health workers. The interactive part of the course, covering the putting on and removal of personal protective equipment, used a custom module that Humulo built to the researchers' requirements. The study was published in BMC Medical Education in 2022. It reported that the cohort trained in virtual reality scored higher than a comparable cohort trained in a classroom, and the authors described the project as the first attempt to use virtual reality teaching in Ugandan medical education.[2] Training Industry reported that the training needed neither protective equipment nor internet access.[6]
Safety education studies
[edit]A controlled study by researchers at Washington State University and Central Washington University compared classroom safety instruction with and without virtual reality modules delivered on Humulo headsets. Students were tested before the training, after it, and about 30 days later. The study was presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2023 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering and published in its proceedings; the authors acknowledged equipment and technology support from the company.[3]
At the University of Houston–Downtown, Humulo's fall-protection module was used with 23 students in a spring 2022 course on offshore fall safety and inspection. A paper presented at the 2023 annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education reported that mean scores on a ten-question test rose from 8.09 before the training to 8.79 afterward, and identified the cost of headsets as a barrier to wider use.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Buyego, Paul; Katwesigye, Elizabeth; Kebirungi, Grace; et al. (13 April 2022). "Feasibility of virtual reality based training for optimising COVID-19 case handling in Uganda". BMC Medical Education. 22 (1) 274. doi:10.1186/s12909-022-03294-x.
- 1 2 Dang, Hongtao; Serne, Jennifer; Tafazzoli, Mohammadsoroush (January 2024). "Virtual Reality Safety Training Assessment in Construction Management and Safety and Health Management Programs". Computing in Civil Engineering 2023. American Society of Civil Engineers. doi:10.1061/9780784485231.004.
- 1 2 Hasan, Mahmud (June 2023). Using VR (Virtual Reality) Technology to Teach Fall Safety Topics to Students: Simulation Outcomes and Student Learnings. 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education.
- ↑ "Virtual Reality Training: How to Reduce Workplace Accident and Fatality Rates". NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Leverage Immersive Learning Technologies for Better Front-line Training". Training Industry. March 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2026.