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Using immersive virtual reality to evaluate pedestrian street crossing decisions at a roundabout

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Daniel H. Ashmead,

Bobby BodenheimerAuthors Info & Claims

APGV '09: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Pages 35 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/1620993.1621001

Published: 30 September 2009 Publication History

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In this paper, we use an immersive virtual environment to assess the separation, or "gap," between moving vehicles that people need before initiating a street crossing in a roundabout, where traffic can be approaching from several directions. From a pedestrians viewpoint, crossing at a roundabout can represent a more complex decision than at a normal linear intersection. This paper presents the design of a system that simulates reasonable traffic patterns that a pedestrian might encounter in making a crossing decision at the exit lane of a roundabout, while controlling the gap duration in the stream of traffic. Using a maximum-likelihood procedure, we conducted a street crossing experiment in the virtual environment to evaluate the minimum gap during which pedestrians would initiate a successful crossing of the intersection. Our results are generally consistent with real-world data on pedestrian street crossings, and may provide insights into how to engineer the design of such roundabouts.

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APGV '09: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

September 2009

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ISBN:9781605587431

DOI:10.1145/1620993

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Katerina Mania
Technical University of Crete
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School of Interactive Arts & Technology
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Bobby Bodenheimer
Vanderbilt University
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Carol O'Sullivan
Trinity College Dublin

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