Active Gaze, Visual Look-Ahead, and Locomotor Control

Autor/inn/en	Wilkie, Richard M.; Wann, John P.; Allison, Robert S.
Titel	Active Gaze, Visual Look-Ahead, and Locomotor Control
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34 (2008) 5, S.1150-1164 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
Schlagwörter	Visual Perception; Visual Stimuli; Psychomotor Skills; Eye Movements; Experiments; Spatial Ability; Motion; Computer Simulation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Augenbewegung; Erprobung; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Bewegungsablauf; Computergrafik; Computersimulation
Abstract	The authors examined observers steering through a series of obstacles to determine the role of active gaze in shaping locomotor trajectories. Participants sat on a bicycle trainer integrated with a large field-of-view simulator and steered through a series of slalom gates. Steering behavior was determined by examining the passing distance through gates and the smoothness of trajectory. Gaze monitoring revealed which slalom targets were fixated and for how long. Participants tended to track the most immediate gate until it was about 1.5 s away, at which point gaze switched to the next slalom gate. To probe this gaze pattern, the authors then introduced a number of experimental conditions that placed spatial or temporal constraints on where participants could look and when. These manipulations resulted in systematic steering errors when observers were forced to use unnatural looking patterns, but errors were reduced when peripheral monitoring of obstacles was allowed. A steering model based on active gaze sampling is proposed, informed by the experimental conditions and consistent with observations in free-gaze experiments and with recommendations from real-world high-speed steering. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10