ABSTRACT
Road crossing between moving vehicles is a perceptual-motor skill and becomes critical when crossing the road as a pedestrian. This chapter discusses the affordance of cross ability in children and young adults during road crossing task. It examines actual crossing behavior of children and young adults in virtual environment. The chapter presents six affordances: scoop-with, pierce-with, pour-in-able, stretchable, cut-able-with, and mop-up-with. A three-way repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted by setting the obstacle fixation rate as the dependent variable and the three sets of experimental conditions as independent variables. An ANOVA revealed a marginally significant main effect of vehicle speed on obstacle fixation rate. Team sports offer a complex and dynamic environment in which skilled perception-action coupling is vital for successful performance. Visual exploratory behavior, in which the movement of the eyes, head and body allow perception of affordances provided by teammates and opponents, is a key component to skilled perception-action, is a key component to skilled perception-action.
