Title: Developing virtual self-defence trainer platform towards responding violence against women's: training framework for learning and sustainability

Authors: Pankaj Chandra; Sweta Raj; Santosh Soni; Raghwendra Singh Thakur; Somnath Singroul; Atul Kumar Sahu

Addresses: Department of Information Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India ' Department of Information Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India ' Department of Information Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India ' Department of Chemical Engineering, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India ' Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India ' Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India

Abstract: Presently, adaptation of online trainings is necessary for societal development and business sustainability. The same imparts several benefits in terms of travel cost, time and women's safety, but; unavailability of well-trained teachers embraces a critical challenge over-there. Accordingly, study benchmarked several qualitative dimensions related to the development of a virtual self-defence trainer (VSDT), which users can use to learn self-defence from their homes under flexible time constraints. The authors conducted present study to report various dimension related with virtual self-defence trainer (VSDT), which are evaluated based on MoSCoW analysis. Here, 'must-responsible' dimensional measures are captured, which are evaluated using fuzzy-DEMATEL technique to identify the prominent dimensions stimulating the utility of VSDT. The study presented 28 dimensional measures and presented a solution framework, which is based on the extraction of the learner's characteristics and the alignment of the poses using AI to generate a score and natural language feedback.

Keywords: DEMATEL; MoSCoW; virtual self-defence trainer; VSDT; must-responsible; decision making.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLC.2025.152776

International Journal of Learning and Change, 2025 Vol.17 No.5, pp.537 - 566

Received: 27 Feb 2025
Accepted: 16 Sep 2025
Published online: 10 Apr 2026 *

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