Journal article
How children judge affordances when walking and bicycling across virtual roads: Does mode of locomotion matter?
Developmental psychology, Vol.59(6), pp.1098-1108
2023
DOI: 10.1037/dev0001520
PMID: 37036665
Abstract
This investigation examined whether the mode of locomotion matters in how 8-, 10-, 12-, and 14-year-old children (
= 91) judge dynamic affordances in a complex perception-action task with significant safety risks. The primarily European American children in the sample came from the area of Iowa City, Iowa and were balanced for gender. The same children crossed a single lane of continuous traffic on foot and on bike (order counterbalanced) in identical immersive virtual environments. We found that although 8-year-olds chose significantly larger gaps when crossing on bike than on foot, these gaps were not large enough to compensate for their delay in entering the gap and their slowness in crossing the road. As a result, they ended up with less time to spare when exiting the roadway on bike than on foot. In contrast, 14-year-olds exhibited no difference in their gap choices on bike than on foot, nor did they exhibit a difference in their timing of entry into the gap. However, they crossed the road much more quickly on bike, resulting in significantly more time to spare when crossing on bike than on foot. The 10- and 12-year-olds' performance fit neatly between that of the 8- and 14-year-olds. We conclude that as children gained better control over the bike with age, they were better able to match their gap decisions with their crossing movements such that bicycling afforded even safer road-crossing than walking for 14-year-olds. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How children judge affordances when walking and bicycling across virtual roads: Does mode of locomotion matter?
- Creators
- Morgan N Di Napoli Parr - Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesElizabeth E O'Neal - Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesShiwen Zhou - Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesBreanna Williams - Department of Psychological and Brain SciencesKatherine M Butler - Department of Computer ScienceAndy Chen - Department of Computer ScienceJoseph K Kearney - Department of Computer ScienceJodie M Plumert - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Developmental psychology, Vol.59(6), pp.1098-1108
- DOI
- 10.1037/dev0001520
- PMID
- 37036665
- NLM abbreviation
- Dev Psychol
- ISSN
- 0012-1649
- eISSN
- 1939-0599
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 04/10/2023
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Driving Safety Research Institute; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center; Computer Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984387059902771
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