A Human Factors Approach to the Assessment of the Mobility of Blind Pedestrians
| Autor: | Clark A. Shingledecker, Emerson Foulke |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
media_common.quotation_subject Fidelity Poison control Human Factors and Ergonomics Pedestrian Motor Activity Blindness 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Transport engineering Behavioral Neuroscience Human–computer interaction Perception Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Gait 050107 human factors Applied Psychology media_common Mobility aid business.industry Lasers 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics Cognition Evaluation Studies as Topic Echolocation Sensory Aids Ergonomics business Locomotion Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 20:273-286 |
| ISSN: | 1547-8181 0018-7208 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/001872087802000303 |
| Popis: | Improving the mobility of blind pedestrians will require the application of methods developed by human factors specialists. Mobility must be recognized as a complex skill, the analysis of which will provide the information that is needed for the design of mobility aids, the development of training methods, and the evaluation of both. This paper suggests some of the requirements of a method for assessing the mobility of blind pedestrians. In so far as possible, mobility should be studied in a situation that provides both experimental control and reasonable fidelity to those situations in which the mobility task is ordinarily performed. Measures should be independent of the mobility aid used by the blind pedestrian. They should be operationally defined. They should assess behaviors that lead to the realization of the terminal objective of the mobility task. Finally, measures should be included that permit valid inferences concerning the perceptual and cognitive processes upon which mobility depends, so that a more adequate theory of mobility can be developed. |
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