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It’s National Pedestrian Safety Month, a good reminder of what it takes to share the road responsibly. How does a vehicle with no driver communicate with the people around it?
There’s no eye contact or wave to say “go ahead.” So we had to rethink how sound can do that job instead.
Our Safety, Experience Design, Research, and Sound Design teams partnered with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to test purpose-built, non-speech audio cues, including for people with low vision or visual impairments.
Head to our Journal to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eqMwerV7
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Abhijeet S.
14h
Replacing eye contact with sound is a hard design problem, because a pedestrian has to understand the cue in under a second without ever learning it. Testing with people who have low vision is the right call, since they rely on audio the most and will catch what a sighted test group misses.
