The impact of mobile phone use on where we look and how we walk when negotiating floor based obstacles.

Pedestrians regularly engage with their mobile phone whilst walking. The current study investigated how mobile phone use affects where people look (visual search behaviour) and how they negotiate a floor based hazard placed along the walking path. Whilst wearing a mobile eye tracker and motion analy...

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Main Authors: Matthew A Timmis, Herre Bijl, Kieran Turner, Itay Basevitch, Matthew J D Taylor, Kjell N van Paridon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5493336?pdf=render