Citation

Williams MD, Van Houten R, Blasch BB. J. Rehabil. Res. Dev. 2006; 43(6): 771-776.

Affiliation

Center of Excellence for Aging Veterans with Vision Loss (151 R), Atlanta VA Medical Center, Decatur, GA 30033. mike.williams2@med.va.gov.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17310426

Abstract

Forty-one individuals with moderate-to-severe vision loss participated in a study to determine the minimum distance they required to correctly identify three different pedestrian traffic icon symbols, one of which was presented with an augmented light source. We found that subjects could identify the WALK icon without the augmented light source information, or animated eyes, from farther away than either the WALK icon with the augmented light source information or the DON'T WALK icon. These results differ from those of a previous study, which found that subjects could correctly identify the WALK icon with the augmented light source from a greater distance than the WALK or DON'T WALK icons without the augmented light source.

Language: en