@article{ref1,
title="Standing and Walking Attention Visual Field (SWAVF) task: a new method to assess visuospatial attention during walking",
journal="Applied ergonomics",
year="2022",
author="Yuan, Jing and Bai, Xiaolu and Driscoll, Brendan and Liu, Ming and Huang, He and Feng, Jing",
volume="104",
number="",
pages="e103804-e103804",
abstract="Visuospatial attention during walking has been associated with pedestrian safety and fall risks. However, visuospatial attention measures during walking remained under-explored. Current studies introduced a newly-developed Standing and Walking Visual Attention Field (SWAVF) task to assess visuospatial attention during walking and examined its reliability, validity, and stability. Thirty young adults completed a traditional computerized Attention Visual Field (AVF) task while sitting, and the SWAVF task under walking and standing settings. Nine participants also performed the SWAVF task under additional distraction conditions. <br><br>RESULTS showed good split-half reliability during standing (r = 0.70) and walking (r = 0.69), moderate concurrent validity with the sitting AVF task (r = 0.42), moderate convergent validity between the standing and walking settings (r = 0.69), good construct validity, and moderate rank-order stability (r = 0.53). Overall, the SWAVF task showed good psychometric properties. Potential applications to the evaluation of prosthetic and other exoskeleton devices, smart glasses, and ground-level traffic lights or signs were discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-6870",
doi="10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103804",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103804"
}