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Active Gaze, Visual Look-Ahead, and Locomotor Control (2008)
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| Venue: | JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY:HPP |
| Citations: | 5 - 3 self |
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@MISC{Wilkie08activegaze,,
author = {Richard M. Wilkie and John P. Wann and Robert S. Allison},
title = {Active Gaze, Visual Look-Ahead, and Locomotor Control},
year = {2008}
}
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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-ofview 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.
Keyphrases
active gaze visual look-ahead locomotor control experimental condition active gaze sampling immediate gate slalom target systematic steering error locomotor trajectory temporal constraint gaze pattern gaze monitoring real-world high-speed steering point gaze next slalom gate free-gaze experiment slalom gate bicycle trainer peripheral monitoring large field-ofview simulator passing distance
