THE NAVIGATIONAL EFFECTS OF SOUND SIGN AND WALL TO STRAIGHT WALK

音サインおよび壁の存在が直進歩行に及ぼす影響

The authors studied the environmental clues that blind persons use while walking independently. They provided an analysis of their effects from an ecological and psychological perspective. By interviewing six blind persons, they found that environmental sounds are one of the most effective clues to navigate their environment. The experiment was designed to investigate whether sound sign influence to a blind person's walk. Subjects performed better when sound sign came from ahead of them. Moreover, with the combinations of sound sign and wall, subjects could walk in a straight line. The findings indicate that sound sign creates safer environments for blind persons.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3130/aija.78.783
• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=THE+NAVIGATIONAL+EFFECTS+OF+SOUND+SIGN+AND+WALL+TO+STRAIGHT+WALK&author=N.+FUKUDA&author=R.+OHNO&publication_year=2013
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• Authors:
  • FUKUDA, Nana
  • OHNO, Ryuzo
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 783-790
• Serial:
  • Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)
  • Volume: 78
  • Issue Number: 686
  • Publisher: Architectural Institute of Japan
  • ISSN: 1340-4210
  • EISSN: 1881-8161
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/aija/-char/en

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Blind persons; Interviewing; Navigation; Pedestrians; Persons with disabilities; Safety; Sound
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01504686
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Jan 27 2014 9:40AM