Modeling of Pedestrian’s Unintentional Guide Using Vection and Body Sway

In daily life, our behavior is guided by various visual stimuli such as the information on direction signs. However, our environmentally-based perceptual capacity is often challenged in crowded circumstances, or more so, in emergency evacuation circumstances. In those situations, we often fail to pay attention to important signs. In order to achieve more effective direction guidance, we considered the use of unconscious reflexes in human walking action. In this study, we experimented with vision-guided walking direction control by inducing subjects gaze direction shift using a vection stimulus combined with body sway. In this paper, we confirm a shift in subjects walking direction and body sway, and discuss a possible mechanism.