Impacts of Mobile Phone Distractions on Walking Performance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35806/ijoced.v2i1.101Keywords:
pedestrian, fatality rate, mobile phone, pokemon GO, safetyAbstract
This work studies the effect of playing mobile phones while walk-ing to pedestrian safety. Thirty young-adults were observed while walking around Skanderbeg square with and without playing Pokemon GO. Results show that the walking performance deteri-orated when the participants played Pokemon GO as can be seen from the average number of laps decreased from 2.47 to 1.58 laps, the average number of collisions increased from 0.27 to 3.93, and the average number of slip, trip and fall increased from 0.03 to 2.07. It can be concluded that using mobile phone while walking could be dangerous for pedestrian safety.
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Russo, B. J., James, E., Aguilar, C. Y., & Smaglik, E. J. (2018). Pedestrian Behavior at Signalized Intersection Crosswalks: Observational Study of Factors Associated with Distracted Walking, Pedestrian Violations, and Walking Speed. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2672(35), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118759949
Stavrinos, D., Pope, C. N., Shen, J., & Schwebel, D. C. (2018). Distracted walking, bicycling, and driving: Systematic review and meta-analysis of mobile technology and youth crash risk. Child Development, 89(1), 118–128. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12827
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Wells, H. L., McClure, L. A., Porter, B. E., & Schwebel, D. C. (2018). Distracted pedestrian behavior on two urban college campuses. Journal of Community Health, 43(1), 96–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0392-x
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Impacts of Mobile Phone Distractions on Walking Performance (G. Selamaj , Trans.). (2020). Indonesian Journal of Computing, Engineering, and Design (IJoCED), 2(1), 32-37. https://doi.org/10.35806/ijoced.v2i1.101
