Abstract
While walking through a life space, it was assumed that different areas of visual field was applied and was used for walking at each situation with which pedestrian is faced. In this study, the visual area applied with each walking situation was checked by the method of “Restricted Visual Field”. The following results were obtained: 1) The visual area is extended in different directions while walking through a corridor or through staircases. However, at every situation, the tendency of extending to “ear side” is found. 2) There are two information needed to exist in the same visual area to walk trough a corner or staircases more smoothly, “edge of corner” and the information beside the “edge” (back of the “edge”), “the first step before descending” and the information under the “step” (near body).
