PPT-The Distracted Pedestrian: Using Virtual Reality to Reduce

David C Schwebel PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham Coauthor collaborators Leslie A McClure Bryan Porter Pedestrian Injuries Background Why the increase More driving lower cost gas. Author. : . Ioannis. . Karamouzas. et al.. Presented. . by. : Jessica . Siewert. Content of presentation. Previous work. The method. Implementation. Experiments. Assessment. Developments since . Introduction – Previous work. What Is Distracted Driving?. . There are three main types of distraction:. Visual — taking your eyes off the road . Manual — taking your hands off the wheel . Cognitive — taking your mind off what you’re doing. Detection: . introduction. Approaches. Holistic detection: use local search window that meets . criterias. Part-based detection: pedestrian as a collection of parts (to be found!). Patch-based detection: local features matched against a (learned) codebook, then voting for final detection. Train the Trainer II. June 30, 2010. Objectives. Identifying distractions. Dealing with Distractions for Various Categories. Summary. Identifying Distractions. Phone. Scheduling Appointments. Transportation. Steps. Step 1 – Establish Goals and Objectives. Step 2 – Analyze Safety Data. Step 3 – Gather Stakeholder Input. Step 4 – Identify Safety Improvements. Step 5 – Implement and Evaluate Programs. 2. Avoid Distractions. NO DISTRACTIONS. More than 1 in 4 motor vehicle crashes involve cell phone use at the time of the crash. Motor vehicle crashes are:. #1. . cause of death in the U.S. for 3-34 year olds. Distracted Driving. Maria E. Vegega . U.S. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA. ). Safe Kids Worldwide Childhood Injury Prevention Conference. June 21, 2013. Virtual Reality. What is Virtual Reality?. A Three Dimension Computer Animated world which can be interacted with by a human.. Also referred to as Virtual Environments due to poor reception to the term Virtual Reality.. January 2016. NTU Libraries presents. What Is Virtual . Reality?. Mashable Explains in this video. A little bit of history…. VR is not really new. Interest was high . during the 80s and early 90s. , when the consumer PC took off. However, the computer hardware and software technologies then were not good enough. VR still continued but remained niche and high-end ($$$), such as training simulators for soldiers, pilots, doctors.. Pedestrian Safety Everybody is a pedestrian Walking is our most basic form of transportation . Every trip we make, even by car, we begin and end as pedestrians . Many people do not have access to automobiles or even Training Program. Developed in cooperation with the Florida Department of Transportation and the U.S.D.O.T’s Transportation Safety Institute. . Produced by the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research. Liza Lemaster-Sandbank. Sr. Highway Safety Specialist, . NHTSA. Stephanie Fitzgerald. Senior Asst. . Commonwealth’s Attorney. Spotsylvania County, VA. Investigation & Prosecution of Distracted Driving Cases . and Inattention Blindness. More than 700 injury crashes involve distracted driving on a typical day in the U.S.. Fact:. Distracted Driving is Dangerous. Drivers can be distracted long after they program a GPS device or send a text via a voice command system. An overview of the . field.. Learning Technology Research Cluster. 19. th. June . 2018. by. Dorothy DeWitt. University Malaya, Malaysia. Visiting Scholar at . Department . of Educational . Studies,.