Estimations of biological motion walking direction are affected by observer and walker genders
Qi Sun, Liang-Liang Dong, Fan-Huan You, Dorita H. F. Chang · 2024
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Qi Sun and co-authors report a 2024 study of how people judge walking direction. Point-light displays show a walker as moving dots. Viewers tend to bias the walker's heading toward themselves. The team asks how exact such judgments are. They also ask whether the gender of viewer and walker shifts the bias. Three experiments varied how clear the walker's gender was, from neutral to plain to subtle.
Ninety-six, seventy-two, and ninety-eight people took part across the three tests. Female walkers drew a stronger push-away bias than male walkers. Judged headings for female walkers bent away from the facing and side boundaries. Viewer gender also played a role in the pattern. Vision scientists get a finer map of social cues in motion reading. Such biases matter for avatars, robots, and safety systems that guess where a person is heading.
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| CREATOR | Qi Sun, Liang-Liang Dong, Fan-Huan You, Dorita H. F. Chang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |