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Title:

HANDS FREE STEERING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD FOR THE EVALUATION OF GUIDANCE SYSTEMS IN PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURES: DESIGN AND VALIDATION

Accession Number:

01473333

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper presents the development and validation of hands free steering in a cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE) designed to make the reactions of pedestrians to guidance information measureable. The navigation uses the Microsoft Kinect to obtain information on the movement of the user. The user walks on the place to move forward in the virtual world and turns her shoulders to invoke rotations in the virtual world in order to make turns. After the implementation of the hands free steering the validity of the model has been explored using a case study involving parallel test groups exposing individuals to wayfinding exercises in the real world and the corresponding virtual world. The results show that the objective distances and times in the real and the virtual worlds as well as perceptions of distances, times and directions do not differ statistically significantly validating the model for steering.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANF10 Pedestrians.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-1484

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Bauer, Dietmar
Schneckenburger, Jasmin
Settgast, Volker
Millonig, Alexandra
Gartner, Georg

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Design; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-1484

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:23PM