Measurement of Situation Awareness on Pedestrians: An exploratory study.

Walking is an everyday activity. This automatic behavior triggers pedestrians to perform secondary activities, such as operating a mobile phone. Operating mobile phones while walking can cause cognitive impairment as well as reduced situation awareness (SA). Low SA can increase unsafe behavior among pedestrians. With the increasing dynamics of the pedestrian environment, pedestrians will be more susceptible to injury than other road users. Measurement of SA on pedestrians is one of the efforts to control pedestrian safety. This research is an exploratory study that examines the effect of secondary activities on pedestrians and the appropriate measurement method to assess SA in that condition. The result is a proposed combination of more than one method as the method that is effective to match different characteristics of pedestrian environments. It is hoped that multi-methods will be able to find out what occurs to attention and motor demands on pedestrian secondary activities in order to control safety in the pedestrian environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]