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This research proposed the simple and relatively inexpensive pedestrian simulator that consisted of three large monitors, a self-propelled treadmill, and the three-dimensional simulator application and that could investigate the pedestrian behavior under general traffic conditions.
In order to confirm the validity of the proposed simulator, the accuracy of the participants’ senses of distances and speeds on the simulator was compared with in the real world through experiments. The participants were required to reproduce the distances and the speeds through walking respectively on the simulator and in the real world.
The results of the experiments revealed that the senses of distances on the simulator was the same as the senses in the real world, and that the sense of 80% slower speed than usual walking speed on the simulator was also the same. The results, however, revealed that the senses of usual walking speed and 130% faster speed on the simulator were slightly slower than the senses in the real world though the participants on the proposed simulator could correspond to the change of the walking speed more precisely than in the real world. These suggested that the proposed simulator was valid practically for investigating pedestrian behavior.
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Sasaki, T., Karashima, M. (2020). Development of Simple and Inexpensive Pedestrian Simulator in General Traffic Conditions. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) HCI International 2020 - Posters. HCII 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50732-9_61
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