ArticleJournal of vision2023
Where do people look when walking up and down familiar staircases?
Article in Journal of vision, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- On utilizing gaze behavior to predict movement transitions during natural human walking on different terrains.PloS one · 2025Article
- The fundamentals of eye tracking part 1: The link between theory and research question.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Gaze-action coupling, gaze-gesture coupling, and exogenous attraction of gaze in dyadic interactions.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- When knowing the activity is not enough to predict gaze.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Running together influences where you look.Perception · 2024Article
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- Wearable sensing for understanding and influencing human movement in ecological contexts.Current opinion in biomedical engineering · 2023Article
- Influence of prior knowledge on eye movements to scenes as revealed by hidden Markov models.Journal of vision · 2023Article
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Abstract
Many activities in daily life do not impose strict requirements on gaze. We investigated gaze when walking up and down staircases within one's own house. We anticipated that using a variety of staircases in different environments and not informing participants that stair climbing was the focus of investigation might provide a description of gaze behavior that is closer to that used in our daily life than doing so under circumstances in which the focus is explicitly and exclusively directed at the stairs. We analyzed several measures, including the order in which participants fixated the steps. We confirmed that people often look at the steps sequentially, but found that they often made fixations back to steps they had already fixated. They also regularly skipped looking at several steps to fixate further ahead. On average, they directed their gaze at about half the steps. They looked further ahead when ascending than when descending staircases. Overall, the results are similar to those found under highly constrained laboratory conditions, although we do report some differences. One such difference is a tendency to fixate fewer steps. Another is that participants fixated steps that were less far ahead when descending staircases. We also introduced some new analyses that may help understand gaze behavior during stair climbing.
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