Title
Watch Out! Modelling Pedestrians with Egocentric Distractions
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe use of mobile devices is one of the most commonly observed family of distracted behaviours exhibited by pedestrians in urban environments. We develop an event-driven behaviour tree model for distracted pedestrians that includes initiating mobile device use as well as terminating or pausing mobile device use based on internal or external cues to refocus attention. We present a simple, probabilistic attention model for such pedestrians. The proposed model is not meant to be complete. It primarily focuses on computing the probability that a distracted agent looks up, based on the agent’s individual characteristics and the elements in their environment. We condition the potentially attention grabbing elements in the environment on distraction-specific egocentric fields for visual attention. We also propose an oriented ellipse model for capturing the affects of cognitively fuzzy goals during distracted navigation. Our model is simple and intuitively parameterized, and thus can be easily edited and extended.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3424636.3426910
MIG
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Melissa Kremer100.68
M. Brandon Haworth2217.74
Mubbasir Kapadia354658.07
Petros Faloutsos43082422.32