TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Game-based situation awareness training for child and adult cyclists
JO  - Royal Society open science
A1  - Lehtonen, Esko
A1  - Airaksinen, Jasmiina
A1  - Kanerva, Kaisa
A1  - Rissanen, Anna
A1  - Ranninranta, Riikka
A1  - Aberg, Veera
SP  - e160823
EP  - e160823
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
N2  - Safe cycling requires situation awareness (SA), which is the basis for recognizing and anticipating hazards. Children have poorer SA than adults, which may put them at risk. This study investigates whether cyclists' SA can be trained with a videobased learning game. The effect of executive working memory on SA was also studied. Thirty-six children (9-10 years) and 22 adults (21-48 years) played the game. The game had 30 video clips filmed from a cyclist's perspective. Each clip was suddenly masked and two or three locations were presented. The player's task was to choose locations with a potential hazard and feedback was given for their answers. Working memory capacity (WMC) was tested with a counting span task. Children's and adults' performance improved while playing the game, which suggests that playing the game trains SA. Adults performed better than children, and they also glanced at hazards more while the video was playing. Children expectedly had a lower WMC than adults, but WMC did not predict performance within the groups. This indicates that SA does not depend on WMC when passively viewing videos. <br><br>KEYWORDS: Bicycles; Bicyclists; Bicycling<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2054-5703
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160823
ID  - ref1
ER  -