Blind Pedestrians' Access to Complex Intersections

盲人行人进入复杂十字路口

基本信息

批准号：
7883396
负责人：
RICHARD G LONG
金额：
$ 94.33万
依托单位：
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2000
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2000-07-01 至 2012-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7883396
关键词：
Acoustics Address Affect American Applied Research Area Auditory Behavior Behavioral Biomedical Engineering Blindness Characteristics Communities Complex Cues Detection Development Disabled Persons Education Engineering Environment Eye Funding Goals Health Health Policy Healthy People 2010 Hearing Home environment Human Engineering Improve Access Individual Institutes Investigation Lead Life Methodology Methods Movement National Eye Institute North Carolina Performance Persons Play Policies Population Psychology Public Health Quality of life Rehabilitation therapy Reporting Research Research Personnel Risk Role Safety Schools Signal Transduction Solutions System Technology Testing Training Translating Transportation Travel Universities Vision Vision research Visual Visual impairment Visually Impaired Persons Work base blind disability dissemination research improved meetings programs rehabilitation service research and development social trafficking way finding

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): PROJECT SUMMARY: The long-term objective of this Bioengineering Research Partnership is to extend the work begun during the initial funding period (2000-2006) to improve access to the pedestrian environment for people who are blind and people who have low vision. We propose a set of 36 studies in 28 research and development projects across three broad programs of research. This work ultimately will lead to improved safety and efficiency of travel in today's most challenging pedestrian environments, and indirectly to improved quality of life of individuals with blindness and low vision. The three programs of research are 1) Strategies for enhancing street crossing at roundabout intersections, 2) Nonvisual cues and training for wayfinding at complex intersections, and 3) The role of vision and audition in street crossing. Methods of investigation include behavioral studies and R&O activities in lab and street settings, with many of the studies involving assessing the performance of various components of the street crossing task and identifying variables associated with safe and efficient street crossings. Our specific aims are to document the perceptual information that is available to pedestrians with varying degrees of visual impairment and the extent to which individuals can use this information to reduce risk and enhance the efficiency of street crossings, and to develop and evaluate technologies and training that can facilitate safe and efficient street crossing by individuals with blindness and low vision. RELEVANCE: The work of the partnership supports the public health goals of Healthy People 2010. Our work will aid in meeting the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing the proportion of people with disabilities reporting environmental barriers to participation in home, school, work, or community activities. Our work is ultimately focused on the reduction of environmental barriers for persons with visual impairments. It also will improve the visual and hearing health by helping clinicians to develop more appropriate rehabilitation services, another goal of Healthy People 2010.

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：这种生物工程研究合作伙伴关系的长期目标是扩大在初始资金期间开始的工作（2000-2006），以改善盲人和低视力的人的行人环境的访问。我们在三个广泛的研究计划中提出了一组36项研究和开发项目中的研究。这项工作最终将导致在当今最具挑战性的行人环境中提高旅行的安全性和效率，并间接地改善了盲目和低视力的人的生活质量。研究的三个计划是1）在回旋处交叉路口增强街道穿越的策略，2）在复杂的交叉点上进行的非视觉线索和培训，以及3）远见和试镜在街道交叉中的作用。调查方法包括在实验室和街道环境中的行为研究和R＆O活动，许多研究涉及评估街道交叉任务的各种组成部分的性能以及识别与安全有效的街道交叉口相关的变量。我们的具体目的是记录具有不同程度的视觉障碍的行人可用的感知信息，以及个人可以在多大程度上使用此信息来降低风险并提高街道交叉的效率，并开发和评估技术和培训，从而可以促进盲目和低视力的个人安全和有效的街道交叉。相关性：合作伙伴关系的工作支持2010年健康人的公共卫生目标。我们的工作将有助于实现2010年健康人的目标，即减少报告环境障碍在家庭，学校，工作或社区活动中的残疾人比例。我们的工作最终集中在减少视觉障碍者的环境障碍上。它还可以通过帮助临床医生开发更合适的康复服务来改善视觉和听力健康，这是《健康人》 2010的另一个目标。