The effect of age and sensation seeking on pedestrian crossing safety in a virtual reality street

Wang, Huarong; Wang, Anni; Su, Fen; Schwebel, David C.

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2022.05.010

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“…Essas profissões oferecem experiências estimulantes e diversificadas, não monótonas. Assim, a procura de sensações é um forte preditor de comportamentos de risco (e.g., Sousa et al, 2021;Zuckerman, 2008), afetando negativamente o desempenho/comportamento de segurança no trabalho, mas também os comportamentos em outras dimensões da vida, tais como na condução e atividade pedestre (e.g., Wang et al, 2022), alimentação, consumo de álcool e outras substâncias (e.g., Lac & Donaldson, 2021), prática de desportos radicais (e.g., Apalkova, 2021), prática de atos sexuais de risco (e.g., Moynihan et al, 2021), entre outros. Com base nas informações supracitadas, foi formulada a seguinte hipótese de investigação: H1: Fatores individuais (neuroticismo, MR, SS, LOCint e autoeficácia) são preditores da percepção de risco.…”

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Explorando a perceção de risco: o impacto de fatores individuais e a mediação do clima de segurança física em trabalhadores portugueses

Pinto,

Gonçalves,

Sousa

et al. 2024

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A perceção de risco é um tema de interesse em várias disciplinas científicas devido ao seu papel vital na gestão, intervenção e prevenção de acidentes. Objetivos: Este estudo procurou examinar como fatores individuais, como autoeficácia na segurança, locus de controlo interno, resiliência mental, neuroticismo e procura por sensações, influenciam a perceção de risco (PR), além de investigar o papel mediador do clima de segurança física nessa relação. Método: Este estudo quantitativo, utilizou-se uma amostra de 216 trabalhadores portugueses, de ambos os sexos, com uma idade média de 34.30 anos (DP = 9.45). Resultados: Os resultados da análise de regressão múltipla mostraram que as variáveis preditoras examinadas explicaram aproximadamente 27.1% da variação na PR, com autoeficácia e locus de controlo interno sendo os únicos preditores estatisticamente significativos. Além disso, a análise de mediação revelou um efeito mediador parcial do clima de segurança física na relação entre autoeficácia e perceção de risco. Conclusões: É essencial o desenvolvimento de comportamentos seguros que se adequem às tarefas realizadas, sendo o investimento em prevenção a estratégia mais eficaz na redução de acidentes de trabalho.Palavras-chave: fatores individuais, percepção de risco, acidentes de trabalho, desempenho/ comportamento de segurança

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Explorando a perceção de risco: o impacto de fatores individuais e a mediação do clima de segurança física em trabalhadores portugueses

Pinto,

Gonçalves,

Sousa

et al. 2024

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“…Recently, VR simulators and virtual environments have been used as an effective tool for transportation research, and there have been multiple studies related to the development and validation of bicycle simulators and prototypes (12,14,(60)(61)(62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69)(70)(71). However, there is little prior research of bicyclists' perceived safety or comfort using VR simulators (72)(73)(74)(75).…”

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Examining Socioeconomic and Physiological Factors Affecting Preferences for Cycling Infrastructure Using Virtual Reality Experimentation

Saglio,

Robartes,

Chen

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Understanding cyclist behaviors and preferences is critical to improve safety and increase mode share. However, real-world cycling data is scarce and on-road testing presents safety concerns. This study presents a novel way of studying cyclists’ perceptions of bicycle infrastructure design alternatives using immersive virtual environments modeled after a real-world corridor, and a previously validated bike simulator at the University of Virginia, U.S. Three infrastructure scenarios were tested: sharing lanes with motor vehicles marked with sharrows (with no bike lane), a separated bike lane, and a protected bike lane with flexible delineators. Surveys elicited data on participants’ preferences and perceptions of safety, as well as demographic and socioeconomic data. Smartwatches collected heart rate (HR) data. A multinomial logit model examined the relationship between sociodemographic and physiological variables and preferences for bicycle infrastructure. Results suggest gender, age, and abrupt changes in HR affect cyclists’ preferences for bike infrastructure design. Overall, gender emerges as the most practically significant predictor variable for bicycle infrastructure preference, with men more likely to prefer sharrows and women more likely to prefer protected bike lanes. Exploratory analysis also suggests that bicyclists who self-identified as “strong and fearless” were more likely to choose sharrows as the preferred design, while bicyclists who self-identified as “interested but concerned” more often chose the protected bike lane. These results highlight the importance of understanding preferences of not just current cyclists, but potential future cyclists. Virtual reality simulation offers a low-cost, safe, and efficient method to understand preferences of individuals interested but not yet choosing cycling as a mode.

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“…We are not the first to propose VR as a medium for studying road-crossing. Factors of crossing sustainability that are attributable to static physical infrastructure have been examined in prior virtual crossing simulators [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. In this paper, we instead focus on the under-examined themes of how dynamic signals (from pedestrians and vehicles, alongside static built infrastructure) factor into crossing sustainability.…”

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Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Study Road-Crossing Sustainability in Fleeting Moments of Space and Time

Torrens,

Kim

2024

Sustainability

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Despite a history of year-by-year reduction in road-crossing harm and fatality in the United States, the trend reversed course in 2009 and road-crossing has grown more hazardous since. Within this tendency, there has been a marked uptick in risk to urban crossers who are neither children nor elderly. The age group in between these extremes represents a bulk of urban crossers, for whom theoretical explanations for crossing behavior that are focused on youth and senior crossing factors often do not apply. New insight is likely required to explain why the rate of crossing harm is growing for the 20–44 age group, but declining among the young and elderly. However, it is difficult to experiment with crossing scenarios in a real-world context, where significant dangers are present and for which the uniqueness of crossers and crossing sites is abundant. In this paper, we introduce an end-to-end system for examining crossing behavior using a unique combination of real human crossing behavior, made safe through the combination of agent-based models, motion capture, virtual geographic environments, and immersive technologies from virtual reality. We demonstrate that this combination of methods can be deployed to examine very high resolution and very high specificities of crossing scenarios and behaviors, with reach to individual crossers and their judgment over tiny windows of space and time. We demonstrate that the system can reproduce known effects from the theoretical literature and from existing case studies, while also generating huge swaths of empirical and diagnostically useful data on crossing actions, interactions, and reactions relative to fleeting events and phenomena of urban geography, traffic dynamics, and ambient pedestrian crowds. To prove the concept, we deploy the system to investigate crossing judgment behavior among the 20–44 age group.

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The effect of age and sensation seeking on pedestrian crossing safety in a virtual reality street

Cited by 23 publications

References 60 publications

Explorando a perceção de risco: o impacto de fatores individuais e a mediação do clima de segurança física em trabalhadores portugueses

Explorando a perceção de risco: o impacto de fatores individuais e a mediação do clima de segurança física em trabalhadores portugueses

Examining Socioeconomic and Physiological Factors Affecting Preferences for Cycling Infrastructure Using Virtual Reality Experimentation

Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Study Road-Crossing Sustainability in Fleeting Moments of Space and Time

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