Pedestrian Guidance and Sensory Fusion  Using Peripheral-Vision-Stimulus and Vibratory Stimulus

Fumihiko MORI, Norifumi WATANABE, Takashi OMORI

Human walking is affected by vision, vestibular, somatic and other various sensations that come through the sensory-motor loop. But detail of the sensory-motor loop is not clear. In this study, we examined a possible affect of self motion sensation by an optical-flow stimulus in peripheral vision with a decayed somato-sensory feeling by a vibration stimulus on leg and foot area. In the experiment, we presented the optical flow for forward direction to the peripheral vision, and then gave the self-motion sensation by changing the flow to left or right direction. We expect the change of walking direction toward opposite of the self-motion sensation because of the decayed somato-sensory feeling. In this paper, we discuss on the unifying mechanism of visual and somatic sensations based on the experimental result.

IEICE Technical Report

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers （IEICE）

112

480, NC2012-138

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2432-6380

https://www.ieice.org/ken/paper/20130313FBci/