Hamoodh, K. orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-3403, Fotios, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-2410-7641 and Cheal, C. (2022) Visual cues to interpersonal evaluations for pedestrians. Lighting Research & Technology, 55 (7-8). pp. 643-657. ISSN 1477-1535
Abstract
Pedestrians need to be able to evaluate other people to support their feeling of safety. While past studies have thus investigated the degree to which road lighting supports facial identity and facial emotion evaluations, it is not yet known whether the face is the most important visual cue. Following a pilot study that indicated the importance of the ability to see the face and hands of other people, an experiment was conducted in which test participants evaluated safety when shown photographs of an approaching person in night-time scenes. These photographs displayed variations in the exposure or concealment of the face and hands. Two procedures were used, category rating and paired comparisons. The results suggest that the face is a more important visual cue than the hands for pedestrians’ evaluations of the intent of other pedestrians after dark.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2022 08:41 |
Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2023 10:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14771535221093470 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193422 |
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