Children's perception of gap affordances: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in an immersive virtual environment

Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1243-1253

  Plumert, Jodie M ^a,b   Kearney, Joseph K ^a   Cremer, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BICYCLE; CAR DRIVING; CHILD; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REVIEW;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BICYCLING; CHILD; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 4344599467     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00736.x     Document Type: Review

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