Abstract
We observed more than 8,800 cases of people passing by an obstacle that was placed at different heights at the entrance to a university cafeteria. Of those cases, 491 were of pedestrians speaking on a cell phone. Overall, 2,422 bumping cases were recorded. Using a cell phone while walking did not increase the risk of bumping into protruding obstacles. The results suggest that the effective visual field of people who are involved in a highly automated, relatively slow- paced task, such as walking, under low rates of information input, is not degraded by speaking on a cell phone.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 2433-2442 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
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| State | Published - 8 Dec 2008 |
| Event | 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Florence, Italy Duration: 5 Apr 2008 → 10 Apr 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | 28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Florence |
| Period | 5/04/08 → 10/04/08 |
Keywords
- Automaticity
- Bumping
- Cell phones
- Dual task
- Safety
- Speaking
- Visual field
- Walking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design