ABSTRACT

As a wider array of existing and emerging transport devices arrive on city streets—everything from bicycles to scooters to autonomous vehicles—new challenges are emerging for how humans pay attention while traveling. The value of eye tracking is rooted in the concept that how users scan, navigate and respond to others can be measured and catalogued into patterns, and advances in using the tool in real-world settings open up new frontiers. We describe an emerging landscape for how eye-tracking research can help understand and address the safety needs of pedestrians and those in human-scaled vehicles.