Feedback - Concept Round 1

Tobi: As a class we found the presentation to be very cool. We liked your idea of using the sidewalk to alert pedestrians of the car's intention and the use of moving lights. Someone made the comment that cars could be parked where the light was moving along the curb and problematic because of the cost of something like to line every street may not be feasible.

Andreas: The idea of the light coming from the headlights was good because Lyn liked the idea of lighting up the pedestrians in the path of oncoming cars.

Jenny S: The windshield screen idea was great, but another group is exploring using flexible oled stickers on the windshield (see flux's group). We really liked the idea of lighting up the street zones with the solar powered light.

Lauren: It was great to activate the corners with the advertisements and making them interactive, we think it that defining these pedestrian zones might be a good direction to go. Lyn felt that the advertisements might add to the distraction that pedestrians already have.

Jenny: We felt that adding responsibility to the pedestrian is a good idea but perhaps giving them more information, like how fast a car is going wouldn't neccessarily make the pedestrians more aware. The light sticks could be stolen. It would be hard to regulate something like that.

We found that our group was very similar to Rob's group so in order to diverge from them and still stick with accidents in an urban intersection, we proposed we work with the existing infrastructure and use lighting to manipulate that to facilitate communication within the intersection. Rob's group will take the angle of manipulating a signaling system to increase communication of the pedestrians and drivers. Everyone was enthusiastic about the idea of redesigning the crosswalk, sidewalks, markings, zones... the structure of intersections.

We tightened our problem and specified more factors. Lyn mentioned that our designs from here on out should correlate very closely to them. Please take a look at the list below before moving forward and add anything you think we might have missed.

Added/Possible Situations of Danger

Initial Results: Field Study Cologne


- Missing sidewalks














- Pedestrian is too close to other vehicels















- Crossing against the red light














+ cars














- Abundance of stimuli (Reizüberfluss)















- Limited visability by pillars, lanterns or shields














- Most important: crossing cars during the green light period

Alerting the Pedestrian the Driver's Intentions

Problem & Factors

Problem:

Manipulating the infrastructure in urban intersection to increase communication between pedestrians and the driver.

Factors:

-Pedestrians don’t heed traffic laws.
-Pedestrians are most in danger when cars are in the intersection
-Pedestrians don’t know what the driver’s intentions are.
-The drivers don’t know what the pedestrian’s intentions are.
-Pedestrians anticipate drivers will see and react to them.
-Pedestrians are crossing when they see the same way traffic light is green whether it is safe or not
-Pedestrians are hasty to cross the street and don’t wait for the signal
-Pedestrians are impatient
-The signals are not abided
-Pedestrians will not change their behavior.
- the driver needs to know where all pedestrians are (the driver needs to be warned)
-the streets are too dark at nights

Concepts 1,2,3 Jenni Reload

GPS LED Crossing Stick

My idea is to assist the pedestrians cross the street. The LED's are sensitive to approaching cars. As the car speeds up towards the pedestrian, the light flashes brighter and faster, communicating to the pedestrian the drivers intentions. GPS tracking system allows the driver to see a cluster of pedestrians in his GPS screen.

Drivers - Analysis

Please add any comments.
"what to consider when designing"