A STUDY ON THE HEAD ROTATION BEHAVIOR OF DOG WALKERS

－A case of living roads in Seya-ku, Yokohama-shi－

Abstract

 When people walk the living road as Necessary activities or as Optional activities, how much does people look around the surrounding environment? If the person's eyes are turned into the town and there are many opportunities to see the surroundings, it means that there will be more opportunities to perceive the existence of others and the situation around them.

 In this study, we recorded the head rotation of dog walkers and single pedestrians on the living road, and compared the situation where the head rotation was observed. This survey was analyzed with the aim of characterizing the behavior of dog walkers looking around.

 We used a wearable camera for the purpose of recording from the viewpoint of the first person of the subject himself / herself about the measurement of the direction of the face of the dog walker and the single pedestrian in the living road, that was, the measurement of the turning direction and its surroundings.

 The wearable camera recorded the turning direction by fixing the direction of the front of the face and the direction of the optical axis of the camera to the left side head of the eyes of the subject wearing the hat. An image every 0.2 seconds was extracted from the video recorded for 30 frames per second, and a diagrammatic method which can easily judge the reading in the turning direction was adopted.

 Walking behavior of dog walkers and single pedestrians were seen to increase the turning behavior in the section where the space composition changes. Dog walkers walked slowly around the regional space, depending on the behavior of the dog rather than single pedestrians, and there were situations where the face was turned in many directions. In particular, when a dog sniffed the roadside or excreted, it was relatively long downward of the side where the dog was located, but when there was a person or a vehicle passing behind the dog, it looked back to the back and looked back safely. There was a action to confirm.

 For walkers with dogs, turning behaviors were seen in many directions in places with long residence times, and on the other hand, few turning behaviors were observed on roads that were difficult to stay. Lead length and dog's unexpected behavior also influenced turning direction.

 Thus, the head rotation behaviors were often influenced by the dog's behavior and overlooked many directions during retention. They were turning behaviors not seen by single pedestrians.