Seeking one’s heading through eye movements

Cutting, James E.; Alliprandini, Paula Mariza Zedu; Wang, Ranxiao Frances

doi:10.3758/bf03214361

Cited by 26 publications

(23 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This may seem surprising especially for mothers, who were responsible for maintaining locomotion in the forward direction. However, some models of steering suggest that information from objects off to the side is sufficient for maintaining a constant heading direction (Cutting, Alliprandini & Wang, 2000;R.F. Wang & Cutting, 2004).…”

Section: Spatial Biases In the Real Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Active vision in passive locomotion: real‐world free viewing in infants and adults

Kretch

Adolph

2014

Developmental Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Visual exploration in infants and adults has been studied using two very different paradigms: free viewing of flat screen displays in desk-mounted eye-tracking studies and real world visual guidance of action in head-mounted eye-tracking studies. To test whether classic findings from screen-based studies generalize to real world visual exploration and to compare natural visual exploration in infants and adults, we tested observers in a new paradigm that combines critical aspects of both previous techniques: free viewing during real world visual exploration. Mothers and their 9-month-old infants wore head-mounted eye trackers while mothers carried their infants in a forward-facing infant carrier through a series of indoor hallways. Demands for visual guidance of action were minimal in mothers and absent for infants, so both engaged in free viewing while moving through the environment. Similar to screen-based studies, during free viewing in the real world low-level saliency was related to gaze direction. In contrast to screen-based studies, only infants—not adults—were biased to look at people, participants of both ages did not show a classic center bias, and mothers and infants did not display high levels of inter-observer consistency. Results indicate that several aspects of visual exploration of a flat screen display do not generalize to visual exploration in the real world.

show abstract

Section: Spatial Biases In the Real Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Active vision in passive locomotion: real‐world free viewing in infants and adults

Kretch

Adolph

2014

Developmental Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…How, then, is perception actually related to the guidance of locomotion? Much work has been done on relating looking behavior and eye movements to perceiving and reporting heading (e.g., Cutting, Alliprandini, & Wang, 2000;Kim, Turvey, & Growney, 1996). Considerably less is known, however, about the corresponding question of looking behavior and actual control of human movement.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Gaze-eccentricity effects on road position and steering.

Readinger¹,

Chatziastros²,

Cunningham³

et al. 2002

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The effects of gaze eccentricity on the steering of an automobile were studied. Drivers performed an attention task while attempting to drive down the middle of a straight road in a simulation. Steering was biased in the direction of fixation, and deviation from the center of the road was proportional to the gaze direction until saturation at approximately 15°gaze-angle from straight ahead. This effect remains when the position of the head was controlled and a reverse-steering task was used. Furthermore, the effect was not dependent on speed but reversed when the forward movement of the driver was removed from the simulation. Thus, small deviations in a driver's gaze can lead to significant impairments of the ability to drive a straight course.

show abstract

“…There is a rich debate about how waypoints are settled upon in different environments (Cousins, Siegel, and Maxwell 1983;Raubal and Egenhofer 1998;Raubal and Worboys 1999;Weisman 1981), by different people (Cornell, Heth, and Alberts 1994;Lawton 1994) and using different cues (Devlin and Bernstein 1995;Fujimura 1996). In my model, I allow MTGs to be specified as user-defined waypoints, as monuments/landmarks (Couclelis et al 1987) or distinct architectural features along major lines of sight (Turner and Penn 2002) on the streetscape ( Figure 2); in this way, agents way-find based largely on visual bearing (Cutting, Alliprandini, and Wang 2000;Kamil and Cheng 2001) and space-time progress to goals .…”

Section: Way-findingmentioning

confidence: 98%

High-fidelity behaviours for model people on model streetscapes

Torrens

2014

Annals of GIS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Computational techniques for generating plausible-looking and authentically behaving synthetic walkers on simulated sidewalks are an important component of social science, engineering, planning, policy and management scenarios for many downtown settings, particularly for phenomena that are difficult to experiment with in reality. Yet, traditional approaches used to fashion model streetscapes and model people to fill them are usually sourced in proxy behaviours borrowed from physics and information heuristics, and while these are often conveniently parsimonious and analytically tractable, they can be limited in their ability to generate the sorts of rich synthetic realities in simulation that are commonly desired for extended experimentation. To facilitate the generation of higher-fidelity behavioural models, I present an alternative scheme based on behavioural geography in theoretical foundation and on polyspatial automata, space-time calculation and efficient computing as actionable media for simulation. Ultimately, the aim in introducing new approaches is to broaden the range of experimental scenarios that models can be applied to, and I present varied applied tests for the model infrastructure as a demonstration of the concept.

show abstract

Seeking one’s heading through eye movements

Cited by 26 publications

References 22 publications

Active vision in passive locomotion: real‐world free viewing in infants and adults

Active vision in passive locomotion: real‐world free viewing in infants and adults

Gaze-eccentricity effects on road position and steering.

High-fidelity behaviours for model people on model streetscapes

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About